Israel struck multiple targets inside Syria on Wednesday, an operation its military quickly acknowledged, a departure from the usual ambiguity that surrounds Israeli strikes on Syria. The move is seen as a signal that Israel will continue attacks across its borders even as its staunch ally President Trump is expected to be leaving office.
Israel said it hit a wide range of Iranian and Syrian targets. The Syrian government said three of its soldiers were killed. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 10 people were killed in the strikes, including five members of Iran’s Quds Force, but those numbers are unconfirmed.
In a rare move, the IDF released footage of missiles hitting three of the eight targets Israel said it hit. “The moment our fighter jets struck military targets belonging to the Iranian Quds Force & Syrian Armed Forces in Syria last night hours after we exposed an Iranian-led Syrian attack,” the IDF wrote on Twitter.
The airstrikes came after Israel claimed to find explosives planted in the Golan Heights, a territory Israel seized from Syria in 1967 and has occupied ever since. The Israelis claim Iran was responsible for planting the bombs. Israel has regularly attacked what it says are Iranian-linked targets in Syria for years.
The wide-ranging Israeli operation could be a message to the incoming Biden administration. “Biden has to ask himself, exactly what is Iran after in Syria?” Israeli Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen said after the strikes.
The strikes come at a time of heightened tensions between the US and Iran. The Trump administration is ratcheting up the pressure on Iran as much as possible before January 20th. Reports said President Trump even explored options to attack Iranian nuclear sites during an Oval Office meeting last week but was talked out of pulling the trigger.
Some fear Israel could take advantage of the tensions and try to spark a major military confrontation with Iran. The Israelis, the Trump administration, and many Gulf states hope Biden does not rejoin the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. A military confrontation with Iran could tie Biden’s hands and make it impossible to revive the deal.
That’s it – while the US political establishment and people are at odds over election results Israel uses that distraction to do their dirty work! Israel WANTS its neighbors to attack it, thereby “justifying” an all-out brutal air war with the usual USA backing. All those “Iranian” targets, even if they are, are only there because of Israel’s own actions towards Syria! If you want to REALLY not be attacked, just quit attacking others already!
Iran says it wants Israel erased from the pages of history. Thousands of Iranian chant “Death to Israel!” “Death to Israel!” is printed on Iranian missiles. Iran has boasted that it helped Hezbollah & Hamas kill Israelis. Iran has offered to help anyone willing to attack Israel. That’s war mongering!
Israel wants good relations with Iran. Israel wants to buy Iranian oil & Israel wants to sell Israeli goods to Iran.
You’ve made this exact comment on several occasions(same as below as I read on). You should at least make an attempt to rearrange some words to make it at least seem fresh.
Speaking of signing bombs:
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israel is purely and simply an aggressive and expansionist colonial racist state (largely mimicking the expansionist/racist history of the US), used as a platform by the American Elites to do some of their dirty work in the middle east
– mostly in punishing and/or occupying at one time or another ALL of its neighbors or any nation in the vicinity which might not want to swallow or follow the US imperialist designs on the other nations of the ME, northern Africa and the Persian Gulf
israel is purely and simply an aggressive and expansionist colonial racist state (largely mimicking the expansionist/racist history of the US), used as a platform by the American Elites to do some of their dirty work in the middle east
– mostly in punishing and/or occupying at one time or another ALL of its neighbors or any nation in the vicinity which might not want to swallow or follow the US imperialist designs on the other nations of the ME, northern Africa and the Persian Gulf
You have placed on your ideologic spectacles, and try to see the world through those limited, hackneyed lenses. Foe many years, the American elites in the State Department and big oil were hostile to Israel-the US refused to sell arms to Israel until apx 1965. The country was the victim of numerous assaults and aggresions by its neighbors-5 Arab countries invaded Israel during the 1948 war. Nasser stated that his mission was to destroy Israel, not vice versa. Iran has threatened Israel, Israel will do what it must to avoid the noose being tightened about itself.The US opposed Israel during the 1956 war.
Terms such as “racist,expansionist, and colonialist” may come out of someones handbook, but are simplistic and do not apply. The Arab world is Judenrein, why don’t you refer to them as racist?
Israel always expects to be able to attack its neighbors continuously at will, but is outraged and shocked whenever their victims fight back, whimpering to their patrons the US to protect them. That’s why Biden must eliminate the phrase “unconditional support for Israeli security” from his platform, now and forever.
Israel and Egypt now have peace, Jordan and Israel now have peace,or a modus vivendi.Lebanon and Israel are trying to agree on sharing marine gas.
Israel’s neighbors attacked on day one & some attacked again & again. After all this time, only two of them signed peace treaties. The others are building up their armaments so that they can attack again. Israel needs to defend itself by stopping them from obtaining more & better weapons.
I guess when one starts the clock allows anyone to say who is the aggressor and who the victim, in this post-fact era (error). Plus the them you say Israel needs to be stopping is nebulous and slippery: irregular militias? Hezbollah, including toppling Lebanon’s govt as fair game in Israel’s self-defense? Iran, because they may be giving arms to the militias? Russia, because they are probably giving arms to Iran…? Russia has core national interests in Syria, where Israel now admits to regularly attacking.
This. Hubris has created its own Nemesis.
And Hubris being Hubris — does not see it.
Israel is a key player in the plot to destroy Syria so that it can reclaim more Biblical land. The Golan and West Bank are not enough.
Israel signed peace treaties with both Jordan & Egypt even though that meant giving up large areas of Biblical Israel. This shows that Israel values peace more than territory.
I seem to remember that Netanyahoo said “when we are done, there would be no Lebanon”
In the USA, we have our own lunatic fringers, race separatists and Marxists. Russia has its pro slavic xenophobes. These do not represent the reasonable goals of peoples and leaders, anymore than so called anti Syrian plotters
That goes for Iranians too..your “”death to Israel” from Iran is the same. Spin spin
The Difference is that the Iranian Republican guard Corps and Al quds brigades are military arms of the Iranian government, not some fringers. An Iranian president engaged in holocaust denial and threats to destroy another state.Show me where the Israeli press engages in the hateful cartoons found in Iran.Spin yourself.
Sure, there is a difference in the makeup of human societies…
I guess when one of em decides they are the “chosen people”…. reminds me of what DeToquville said about US self perception…amazing that an entire continent is conquered, cultures eliminated…all in the name of liberty and justice for all. Guess what, Israelis are the same kind of assholes every other human power seeker is…that’s why they bomb who they want, when they want. They have nukes cause the US gave em to em. That, was the turning point. Ok, go on with Israeli “victimhood” as you must.
“An Iranian president engaged in holocaust denial and threats to destroy another state”
He was talking about regime change like the US and Israel do as if they were planning a lunch date. And so what if he denied the holocaust? He could have denied that the earth is round and that would be equal to his denial of the holocaust. Neither are a threat to Israel.
So Israel steals the Golan Heights, the Trump regime legitimates the theft, and Iran and Syria are blamed when Syria allegedly places bombs on their stolen territory!
photoshop from Tel Aviv—SOHR/CIA propaganda–the US colony Israel cannot challenge Iran–neither can racist amerikans…unable to compete they employ sanctions and tariffs—dispalying their insecurity and desperation