On Sunday night, Israeli missiles pounded sites in Syria’s Hama and Aleppo Provinces, hitting arms depots with what are being called “bunker-busting” missiles. As with previous Israeli strikes, Iranian sites are believed to have been targeted.
The attacks are estimated to have destroyed 200 missiles and killed a number of people. Exactly how many were killed is unclear. One official was quoted saying 16 were killed, including 11 Iranians. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 26 were killed, mostly Iranians, and 60 others were wounded.
The strikes were so big and caused such an explosion that they actually registered as an earthquake of 2.6 magnitude near Hama. Israel has yet to officially comment on the attack, which isn’t unusual. Syrian state media accused US and British missiles of being fired during the salvo, from Jordan. That’s not been confirmed.
The Israeli strike may be less about targeting anything in particular, than about testing their ability to keep attacking Syria. After the US-led attack on April 13, there was growing expectation that Russia would limit everyone’s ability to strike Syria, including Israel.
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said over the weekend that “freedom of action” in attacking Syria was vital to Israel, and would be maintained at any cost. This attack may amount to Israel attacking just to see what reaction, if any, they get from Russia.
Russia is in the process of delivering S-300 missiles to Syria, which will greatly enhance their air defense capabilities. In addition to testing reaction, Israel may also be hitting a site they believe will be harder to hit when the S-300 arrives.
These nutcases are going to rip the lid off Pandora’s Box…and this time there won’t be any hope left.
Bibi is on my TV right now presenting a TED talk on Iran’s fictional nuclear program. This is how it starts. I’m scared to ask how it ends….
Why is Israel always given the freedom to kill anyone, anywhere, while ridiculous accusations are made and accepted about Russia, Iran, Syria?
Israel needs to return the Golan Heights they stole from Syria, keep out of Syria, Lebanon, Palestine(!) and stop moaning about “antisemitism” whenever someone dares to criticise their political decisions and actions. What a thought!
Return the Golan so the Syrians will be able to shoot down on them-Sure!
Why would Israel want to return the Golan heights to Syria . It is too good a place to shoot at Israel from . Let the Golan people vote if they wish to be part of Israel or Syria . We let Crimea vote , We let Croatia Bosnia and Kosovo vote .
Who is “we”? The “free world” pretends Crimea had no right to vote to return to Russia. Croatia was lifted out of Yugoslavia by the Germans 9 days after German reunification. Coincidence? Kosovo? Ask NATO about freedom.
Why on earth not? Only Israel has rights-of course. “defense”
If someone menaces a person with a baseball bat, uses the bat to kill their dog and smash their car,, and threatens their children, you have a right to take the bat away so it cannot be used to harm you and yours. Syria used the heights to shoot down on their neighbors, so they have forfeited their rights. Case closed!
Pathetic. What an absolutely ridiculous comparison, when your heroes are just now killing unarmed protesters on the land stolen from them and where they are now imprisoned, injuring thousands and getting support from the “great powers” like the USA whose “elected politicians” bow down to them and give money, arms and vetoes in the UNSC to ensure the poor little innocent liars thieves and murderers of the “only democracy in the ME” are never allowed to be called to account.
We were talking about a specific issue,i.e, the Golan heights.Having lost that argument, you now jump to an entirely different issue.It is Christian behavior that created Zionism. After 2000 years of murder, hate,persecution, torture discrimination, and child kidnapping, the Arabs evicted the Jews from the Arab lands, Europe did the same, largely evicted the Jews from their European homes, so the Jews game to Palestine, sometimes buying lands ,sometimes evicting Arabs. No saints, no sinners, just people.
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Jewish privilege
Now you conflate Jew with Israeli
May the Zionist entity feel endless pain in the near future. Lets hope that Russia finally teaches this inhumane state a brutal lesson.
Antiwar
Jewish supremacist
Neo nazi
http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/bakera.htm
Bathists arab supermists
Khomeni follow ers/ Hezzbollah Shia suptemists
Al Qadia sumni supremacists
Klu Klux Klan white supremacists
Suggestion: If you have an argument to make, make it instead of just posting incoherent garble.
Hey referee call it on the other guy too
I’m not a “referee.” My job isn’t to mediate any kind of disputes between people or teams, it’s just to enforce the site’s guidelines.
I wasn’t acting as a moderator when I asked you to please at least post something readable if you’re going to post. I was acting as a fellow commenter who prefers arguments that can be understood (whether I agree with them or not) to unintelligible word salad.
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You seem to forget a lot of Israeli Jews are Russians . Russia doesn’t want to harm the Jews . Russians are Christians not NAZIs