More and more Israeli forces surge into the occupied Golan Heights these days, reinforcements dispatched with an eye toward fighting in the war across the frontier in neighboring Syria.
Officials say this is being done as a “message” to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad not to violate the demilitarized zone, where some rebels, and a lot of displaced civilians have massed. Israeli DM Avigdor Lieberman asked Russia to “warn Assad” not to violate the 1974 lines.
Syria is pushing south in an offensive against rebels in the southern Daraa Province, which borders Israel and Jordan. There was no sign Syria intended to go that close to the border at any rate, ad is trying to negotiate deals to get those cities back under government control without an offensive.
Israel has intermittently attacking Syrian government forces in southern Syria over “cross-border” fire, but generally Israeli strikes against Syria have just hit military targets around Damascus and Homs. Israel has said it’s a major priority to prevent Assad from winning the Syrian War, though it seems likely Assad’s government will survive.
“Lieberman warns Syria not to violate the 1974 lines” That’s rich why stop at 1974!! Syria should now warn Israel to return to its legitimate borders as enshrined in the UN and not continue to violate its own Unilateral declaration of Independence.
Everything they do is “rich”, in the worst possible sense.
SAA has a lot to do and to think about before thinking what to do with the demilitarized belt between occupied Golan and the rest of Golan and/or Syria.
There is Idlib, separated ‘stan, US, UK forces, Turkey, and French military in Syria. All that has to disappear or be disappeared, ere Syria goes against Israel.
I believe the Golan Heights are on Syrian military leaders minds and future plans once all of Syria has been reclaimed and the military forces have had to time to rest and refit and the country’s daily life returns to a semblance of normality.
Assad does want to reclaim “every inch” of rightful Syrian territory.
I hope he does.
The world would be a very dull place without Israel!
A perrenial Peter Pan, with adolescent desire to have anything it can get away with, and with the parents like West, we have a child that cannot be disciplined. To its grief the West will discover can wreack havoc upon all those that thwart its desires, even foolish parents.
Well, if Peter Pan were a Chucky Doll…
Yes, I can imagine some interesting combinations.
… Now that’s kind of fear-inspiring…
Or is it? I wonder if it is all a make believe, and that the show called Israel may not withstand the test of reality, had it not been for the producers and their mighty global network of box offices and press agents. All the braggadocio may be whistling past the graveyard. This is why Hezbollah can never be forgiven. Even if it means saddistic delight at butchering their poor cousins in Yemen.