A new round of Israeli missile strikes were reported overnight against the Syrian capital of Damascus. Seven were killed, three Syrians and four other Shi’ite militia members.
Details are scant, as Israel followed its standard of not commenting. Syria similarly offered little beyond saying that they’d intercepted several missiles.
So what was attacked and why is unclear. Generally though, Israel likes to attack Shi’ites and then claim they were Iranians. Most Shi’ite militia in Syria are not from Iran.
Syria has gotten more effective at intercepting attacks, but so far has been unable to chase attacking Israeli arplanes out of their airspace.
Stuff like this makes me anti Irsaeli, and there sure has been a lot of it lately. Killing and maiming children and the young who they think have gotten too close to their fence while on Palestinian land tops my.list of their atrocities which boil my blood. It’s like some distopian saga of robots gone mad, but these shooters claim to be human. To me they are inhumane. Or Ahuman. We got a lot of this sort of stuff in Europe in the thirties. Sad to see it return these days. Sadder yet to see the perpetrators are the kin of the victims from then. Just goes to show that there really are no good or bad people. Just people being being good or bad or just being.
The Hebrews were allowed to do that and more. Haven’t you read the “good book”
It was the Israelis that wrote, edited, and re-edited “the good book” Worse yet, it’s full of hearay. “God said this, God said that” Never carved into granite by lightning. No only possible by divine writ in existance.. Words, words words & more words which almost no one follows. It’s sad really
And Bashar al Assad cowers in his palace.
the next missile will be landing on his sunday dinner table hopefully.
So, Israel is a good place and good people with good intentions? Are we missing something?
Perhaps just the natural arrogance of superiority?
I Just don’t get it, how Assad ends up as the bad guy when the worst of the worst are the ones trying to overthrow him & drive him out. It seems to me that the people of Syria prefer him to those trying to oust him. What/who would replace him, and how many more lives would be ruined seemingly to satisfy the land lust of the klepto deep state aggressors????
they fear him so they toe the line. he will have you gassed and not give it a second thought if you oppose him which is a good reason to abide. we have isis still under contract to get him. they have been diligent about it but need new recruits and funding.
Uh huh, no evidence Assad gassed anyone…meanwhile, in the US, citizens are gassed every day.
Children are hit with pepper spray.
assad doesn’t use harmless pepper spray when he orders dissidents to be gassed. everything you think about syria, iran, china and russia is erroneous. they are the problem and we are the solution.
You are talking EVIDENCE to people with no moral brakes? Save some energy. Read Kaplan’s Warrior Ethics on Pagan Ethos. We the lower species just do not get it.
You are full of it.
assad is a russian stooge but they are just playing him. russians are like vultures circling the area just waiting to see what they can get when syria finally and justifyingly falls.
Keep drinking that Kool Aid.
Waste of time, waste of time. Israel is protected by the mightiest nation on earth, and can do anything to its heart’s content. How foes it matter? Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Gaza, humanitarian ships, fishing boats, autistic kids, kids playing in a beach, demolish few homes a day, burn some crops, uproot olive trees, slash some tires — and on a slow day, just demolish some vegetable stands!
You do not get it. Trying to talk to people who GENUINELY see nothing wrong with it — is speaking a wrong language.
Libya is a prime example.
So, how did Assad get into this conversation?
Assad bad or Israel bad?
Israel, definitely
What in the h*ll are you talking about?
These are not Israeli missiles; they are American missiles. Israel is just the US gopher. If Syria retaliates, then the US can come to the rescue with the full load of hell and destruction for which they are so famous and which they have invested over decades. There is no way for the US to be at risk. This is the way they fight in America.
Correct. We have two oceans, two friendly countries at our Northern and Southern borders.
We scream when a Russian ship docks at a port at Venezuela. We still smother Cuba, fearful of one of our enemies docking there.
It should be noted that Syria cannot “… chase attacking Israeli airplanes out of their airspace..” because the Israelis don’t launch their missiles from either Israeli or Syrian airspace. They fly into Lebanon (which cannot stop them but which has lodged complaints with the U.N.) hide behind the Lebanese mountains (often using passenger or Russian military aircraft to conceal their signatures), pop up long enough to acquire their targets, launch their missiles, drop down behind the mountains, and return to Israel. Syria will not violate Lebanese airspace to launch missiles at the Israeli warplanes..
The arrogance of Israel to believe they can bomb Syria and kill Syrians at will without starting WWIII is stunning. Make no mistake, that’s exactly what they’re risking on everyone’s behalf. Syria has every right to shoot Israeli jets out of the sky and probably will kill Israelis that way eventually. How will Israel retaliate? Syria’s ally Russia has every right to bomb Israel every time Israel bombs Syria. What would the US do? How much defense of aggression will we die for? US weapon gifts to Israel are an existential threat to humanity.
Syria can get their planes down. It is as easy as getting anything on a relatively predictable trajectory. Even planes that come briefly out of Lebanese air space.
The issue is the one of escalation. Israel is trying to provoke — something US does not want. Israel does not like the idea of US giving ME lower priority — thus will continue to stir up trouble. But we are misjudging this — thinking it has something to do with Assad. No, Israel wants to draw US into conflict. Hoping Syria would respond by shooting a plane, hopefully killing pilot. Or better yet, Russia respond. Bombing Syrian-Iraqi border looking for Iranians was a dud — Iraq did not respond.
Another target will be Lebanon — if US does not curb the out of control Israeli warlords. Lebanon has been primed — banking system attacked, million refugees. economy crashing. Yet, it has a better chance of survival militarily then it had in 2006.
All Israel wants is someone to respond — Congress in US will do the rest. As any iother spoiled child, Israel is not aware of US precarious position today.
Under the cover of Covid-19 and world-wide unrest. It figures.
If Syria were to unload on Tel Aviv, Israel would scream bloody murder, the media would have it all over the newswires, we would scream. Then Israel just might use that pretense to throw more are Syria, including, perhaps, a small yield nuke.
Iran has warned that if the US attacks their country, then Israel will suffer the consequences. Netanyahu has been rather quiet ever since.
He’s quiet? But taking many war moves at home. Nothing to stop him. Current US mis-leadership will not intervene.
Is there such a thing as “a small yield nuke” in this densely populated area?
Terrorists. Israel wants all Arabs dead in Palestine and all Shiites dead anywhere. America and the Saudis share this genocidal passion for sectarian bloodlust.
The Israeli government has clearly instructed its military to target and destroy all educational institutions in Gaza, as part of an overall plan to eviscerate the social structure of Palestine and its people.
During Israel’s Operation “Cast Lead”, more than 280 schools and kindergartens were destroyed in Gaza in less than 3 weeks by the Jewish military. Also rendered unusable were Gaza University and the Islamic University. Jewish military forces directly and intentionally bombarded the United Nations school which was sheltering more than 1,300 people. Gaza’s American school was similarly destroyed by intensive bombardment with white phosphor munitions. The photos of small children on fire and being burned to death from the phosphor bombs, are sufficient to turn your stomach.Countless children were killed. In another attack, at least 43 civilians were massacred on 6 January as they took shelter at the al-Fakhoura school in Jabaliya refugee camp. (17) (18)
It has been so bad that a new word emerged from the carnage in Gaza: “scholasticide” – the systematic destruction by Israeli forces of centers of education dear to Palestinian society, as the ministry of education was bombed, the infrastructure of teaching destroyed, and schools across the Gaza strip targeted for attack by the air, sea and ground offensives.
But the inhuman travesties extend far beyond this. The West Bank is dotted with hundreds of checkpoints through which Palestinians must pass to go anywhere. According to so many reports, they are consistently harassed at these checkpoints, abused, beaten and humiliated, often made to strip to their underwear before being permitted passage – if they are permitted to pass. Often, they are not. (19)
The degradation of Palestinians apparently knows no bounds. There are many videos on the internet of Israeli soldiers fondling womens’ breasts as a prerequisite to crossing a check-point. One report described how an Israeli soldier, examining a man and his wife attempting to pass thorough a check-point, repeatedly fondled the woman’s breasts and, when the husband didn’t respond, the soldier exhibited his penis to the woman and then urinated on her husband. When the man finally threw a punch at the soldier, he jumped back, took out his handgun, and shot the man dead. (20)
There are so many testimonials
The Israeli apologists here are making me sick with their demoization of Assad with claims of “gas”. To observers like me, these claims seem far fetched, Assad would have to be the dumbest leadership alive to always use gas days after inspectors from the OPCW arrive. There are on going accusations within the organization of irregularities and sketchy processes. I wonder what sort of bribes are on offer to the personnel doing the investigations to find Assad did the attacks. Remember Victoria Nuland and saying she had $5 billion dollars of U.S letter agency funds to oust Petroshenko in Ukraine? And the phone call recording of her saying who she chose for his replacement? Let’s get a little perspective here about how bad these different actors are. I’m putting burning CHILDREN to death with phosphorous at the top of my list. Let me know when you find worse, and by whom. Memo to booting buddin!
Eh, bootin considers burning children feature.