Since Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed in an apparent Israeli plot, Israel has been hyping the threat of an Iranian attack in the region. On Monday, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) chief of staff Aviv Kohavi continued the pattern and said Israel is prepared to “forcefully” respond to an Iranian attack.
“If Iran and its partners, members of the radical axis, whether in the first circle of states or the second, carry out actions against Israel, they will discover their partnership to be very costly,” Kohavi said.
“The radical axis” refers to groups in Syria, Lebanon, and Gaza, all places Israel has bombed over the past year. Israel has ramped up its airstrikes in Syria this year against what it claims are Iranian-linked targets. While Iran has some involvement in Syria, its presence in the country is overblown by Israel as a way to justify the airstrikes.
Earlier this month, Kohavi said Israel has “struck over 500 targets this year, on all fronts,” most of which were likely in Syria. Kohavi’s comments on Monday make it clear that Israel would blame Iran for any attack on Israeli targets in the region, despite the continuous Israeli air war in Syria.
“The IDF will forcefully attack anyone who takes part, from near or far, in activities against the State of Israel or Israeli targets. I am saying this plainly and am describing the situation as it is — the response and all the plans have been prepared and practiced,” Kohavi said.
Fakhrizadeh was killed after a report said President Trump reviewed options to attack an Iranian nuclear site. Iran responded to the report by cautioning its allies not to provoke the US while Israel increased airstrikes in Syria and leaked stories to the press about how the IDF was preparing for war with Iran.
The “radical axis”??? Wouldn’t that be the bombers and occupiers, not the occupied and bombed?
Yes, but not in our Orwellian piece of the planet.
I had to laugh at the headline. Israel goes about attacking and destabilizing Middle Eastern nations and then it has the audacity to warn others not to attack it? What profound hypocrisy!
Israel was attacked by its neighbors on day one. Some attacked again & again. Except for 2, all the attackers have refused to sign a peace treaty with Israel & are building up their weapons supply for the next attack. Israel is trying to stop those countries from getting more & better weapons.
So that’s why they are an apartheid regime, mistreating people whose families have lived in what is now Israel just as long as the families of the chosen ones who live there now? Everyone knows you aren’t jack crap if you’re not the preferred religion in the supposed “only democracy in the Middle East”/.
Israel wouldn’t even exist if not for the goodwill of its benefactors. Not cutting or defaming the nation just saying, you catch moire bees with honey than you do with bullets
There are no occupiers.A nation has returned home.
Interesting. Please enlighten me as to precisely when the Israeli regime dissolved the Civil Administration, withdrew its troops from the West Bank, and/or accorded the West Bank’s residents full civil rights and representation in the Knesset.
You cannot occupy what is already yours.
So the Nazis were correct in their occupations?
If the West Bank is part of Israel, why is the Israeli regime pretending otherwise and claiming to occupy it?
???? So the US and other Western nations that occupy Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries and bomb Syria, Libya and other countries is nation that “has returned home?”. Who knew?
But , on the other hand, you are referring to Israel? Which wasn’t my reference btw …. Do you really think that any area of the world, including where Israel exists, doesn’t have a people with a prior claim?
What a sick regime they have in Tel Aviv.
We can kill your people with impunity but you can’t touch us… yeah,,, same mold as the US