After a pair of rockets fired from Syrian territory hit Mount Hermon, Israel responded with a flurry of attacks along the Golan Heights frontier, killing at least 10 people within Syria, including three Syrian soldiers.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that in addition to the Syrian soldiers, the other seven were “foreign fighters,” saying that they were Hezbollah or Iranian. Within the context of Israeli reports, “Iranian” fighters often means Iraqi Shi’ite militia members.
Of the two rockets fired at Mount Harmon, only one actually landed in Israeli territory. It was expected that the rockets were aimed at an Israeli military outpost, but it doesn’t seem that anything was hit.
Israel regularly attacks targets within Syria, but only publicly confirms responsibility for the strikes when they have a putative justification. Such attacks generally focus on Hezbollah and Iran-linked groups.
Mire musings from Syrian Observatory. By what magic they know that Iranians or Hezbollah were aming killed? It has not been published anywhere.
Israel is in this tense situation playing with fire. But it cannot help it, for as long as it knows what it can do and remain unpunished. But the public opinion around the globe is irriversibly hardenig against Israel. Trully hardening. I am actually surprised that such mindless and motiveless belicosity gets support of voters. One would think that security matters, and proviking trouble is the best way to expose oneself to danger.
Oh no Bianca… The Israelis are out to project an image of invincibility for all the world to see. And they have things going their way most of the time.. They even seem to do things like kill children and the helpless to let us know they are ruthless. In the end they may be over playing their strong position recklessly. Amazingly similar to past powers who squandered advantage grandstanding and making new enemies and old enemies more determined to end their run of offensive acts. No one stays on top forever, and in these thermonuclear times it’s smarter to be just a bit careful.
Then we agree 100%. The very acrs of nastiness, acts against children and handicapped — all point to the terminal stage senseless cruelty with no miral breaks or conscience pangs. There are now more dangerous threats looming over the globe. China’s defence ministry in Singapore speach mentioned “Going to the end@, and he did not mean trade issues. This is way beyond trade, and escallation steep.
These are times when everyone tries to stay low. Israel is attraxmcting attentiion. The problem is — just read an article on Trump ledge bets. Will he pull back, or splat. In Asia, nobody is sure where this is going. And right after signing deal with Canada and Mexico — tarif war starting on Mexico,?weaponisjng trade for issues unrelated to trade. The episode is a wake up call to China and ofhersvaboutvthe value of any deal.
Trumo, whose isduesvin trade and glibalism I supported, has gine too far, and the question is — when will he realize this, and will it be too late.
Bizzare events are taking place, threatening Europe on range of issues, soraying sanctions. How will end?
“I am actually surprised that such mindless and motiveless belicosity gets support of voters…”
Not real votes, just those crypto-votes that have changed things so much since the advent of voting machines with the re-election of Bush. See this well-researched and well-annotated article from 2004 (from Harpers when Lapham was editor), particularly the following quote from p.1, the 1st sentence of which has been since been removed from the on-line version as a ‘correction’.: “And on Election Day [in 2004], twenty-six state exit polls incorrectly predicted wins for Kerry, a statistical failure so colossal and unprecedented that the odds against its happening, according to a report last May by the National Election Data Archive Project, were 16.5 million to 1. Yet this ever-less beloved president, this president who had united liberals and conservatives and nearly all the world against himself-this president somehow bested his opponent by 3,000,176 votes.” You have to read the article in PDF format to find this most interesting quote, and the ‘correction’ link (at the point where it was removed in the on-line version) doesn’t lead to any basis for its removal. No matter, there was plenty of evidence that such shenanigans came to pass soon afterwards in Mexico. Bolsonaro’s much more recent and otherwise impossible election in Brazil could only make sense with hacked or rigged voting. (The election followed a superior or supreme court case which resulted in a ruling of 7 to 2 in favour of the use of the voting machines, and in the decision the judges mocked the computer engineers and techies who testified that the machines were unsafe and should NOT be used, as conspiracy theorists.) These days, with the control of the media and the polls, it can be hard to get a sense of the prevailing opinion on things in your local community. Every once in a while, a litte evidence of how people really feel about things will slip through, https://themighty.com/2019/05/army-tweet-mental-health-veterans/ an increasingly rare thing. So don’t blame or even try to analyze the opinions or the mood of the ‘voiting’ public, it’s all about the highest bidder now. The election process, and increasingly politics generally, is all theatre.
I think that there is a medical term for our perceptions being altered when facing unreal, unaceptable reality.
With this much power being yielded by the inner elite circle , and with no meaningful constraints — what is to stop them? Kerry was theirs, too. But it made more sense to keep Bush and continue agenda, to then replace him with hopefull new face.
In Brasil, without any reallity behind it, they jail former president, the ine who could have been easily reelected. There are no meaningful audits isuch systems.