On February 13, Israel attacked the Damascus Airport with a series of missile strikes. Israeli media were quick to label the attack as targeting “Iranians,” which is what Israel always says it is attacking in nearby nations.
Israel’s reports were non-specific, and Syria’s reports were on some missiles being intercepted. Specific details on the damage are only now starting to emerge with commercial satellite images showing a number of warehouses destroyed.
Israeli media, dutifully, reported those as Iranian warehouses, and further suggested that the airport site must’ve been the headquarters of the Iranian Quds Force, despite no evidence supporting such a claim.
In practice, Israeli attacks on warehouses are often done because they’re suspected of containing equipment bound for Hezbollah, and something like that is liable to be the case here, as well. Israel is increasingly eager to attack Syria, and certainly wouldn’t need for a site at the airport to be particularly significant.
Why waste time and energy fretting over that of which we can only observe, spectators no different than sports events and reality tv viewers but , without having comercials selling male enhancers, beautiful women of dating firms, pills to pillows, and HIV medications.
For 10s’ of millions of Evangelical Christian Zionist whose only real Capital has always been in Jerusalem finally got their way due to Israeli indebted elected officials of their old Capital of Washington D.C.
As a youth for many years when TV first became available we had but one channel to watch, and had no say what was upon it, and the view today on our governnt channels are much the same, you watch whatever they want you to watch.
They do not hear your opinion, cuss words or see your one finger salute given from your homes front room, not yet at least, which is about the last place we still have freedom of expression.
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Why? Because my land’s only borders lie around my heart (borrowed from The Anthem, musical Chess). Because the only way to maintain my mental hygiene is to reinforce my personal roadmap steering straight, distinguishing right from wrong, deceptions from lies, greed from modesty, avarice from goodness. Being ashamed for the shameless and showing disrespect to those who richly deserve it.
The last place our freedom exists is in our hearts and minds. And NOBODY can take that away from us.
It’s all fun and games until somebody hits back at Israel- then it’s all anti-Semitism and hate and ‘everyone is against us, we need more money USA’. As loathe as I am to see nations go to war, I would be delighted to see someone step up and put Bibi in his place in a BIG way.
That time is coming. Hard to say when, but let me guess. First, nothing will happen before elections in Israel, as many things are at stake. The intra-elite fighting is escalating. This is tabula rasa in Israel’s history. Without external
enemy — just made up ones — fear is not a factor. And with all the goodies being thrown into their laps by Trump — greed is a major factor. Whoever gets the political prize, gets the riches. And at the same time — while buried in the background, is the issue of second class Jewishness. There is a resentment felt towards former Soviet Union immigrants, as many did not observe all the rules to qualify. And the rules are enforces by Orthodox parties aligned closely with Netanyahu party. There is a resentment heard about hearing Russian everywhere, as over 1 million immigrated from various parts of Soviet Union. Many of them are culturally Jewish, not observing many a strict definitions by Orthodox rule-setters. These tend to gravitate to Lieberman’s party, but not exclusively. The issues are archaic, but like so many social problems and divisions, they can be explosive.
Past the elections, it all depends. Will Israel continue random bombing in the neighborhood to keep the pretense of internal unity? If so — and following Idlib end-game, the regional situation will change, at that point, nobody in Syria will challenge Damascus for retaliating. Just the opposite, this may be an incredible novelty that would receive support from the public throughout Middle East and beyond. After that — it will not be any more a risk free adventure.
I sure would not like to see that
Damascus needs to up their air defenses, maybe Putin can help?