A new round of Israeli attacks on Syria took place Wednesday evening, after a Syrian air defense system was activated and fired at an Israeli warplane. The missile did not hit the plane, but it landed near Israel’s Dimona nuclear site, and Israel launch a flurry of attacks.
Israel’s attacks centered on military targets in southern Syria, and they hit a number of Syrian air defense batteries. This is just the latest in common Israeli attacks on Syria, which leave Syria’s air defenses constantly ready to try to defend sites.
Complicating matters were that Israel was beefing up its own air defenses around Dimona, with the media speculating that Iran was going to attack them, potentially by way of Yemen’s Houthi rebels. Israel speculated this would be retaliation for recent sabotage in Iran. Syria’s missile didn’t come that close to Dimona, in the grand scheme of things, but with them readying for a strike, they overreacted.
Under ordinary circumstances, this sort of attack could start a war. Israel is never not attacking Syria, however, and that means that Syria’s reaction isn’t exactly the same as if they faced an unprovoked attack. Further escalation, however, is likely to inform Syria’s responses to future Israeli incursions.
Sooner or late we will see an actual deliberate attack on Israel’s Dimona nuclear site.
They attack Iran’s sites. The absolutely normal automatic response to such things is tit-for-tat.
They’ve escaped that so far only because Iran has hoped to revive the Iran Deal. If Israel’s sabotage of the Deal succeeds, then Dimona will be hit.
It should be seen as automatic and inevitable.
This might have been such a tit for tat, just covered up to protect Israel’s image of strength. It might have been an Iranian missile, and there might have been more than one…
Well, that’s the thing — none of the parties involved can be trusted to tell the unvarnished truth except on occasions when that unvarnished truth reflects only positively on them.
“Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
Most things the Niet says aren’t entirely true either. “What doesnt kill you makes you stronger,” except what weakens you. “The spirited triumph over the strong,” and religion can provide that spirit. A sort of fanaticism arose around the guy, and his fans are misguided.
States can be honest to a degree, just as individuals can be. To say there are no conditions where any source of info can ever be trusted is foolish.
With MSM cover, Israel does not even pretend to need a legitimate reason to attack Syria, which is a sovereign country that has the right to defend itself. The MSM: “Syria attacked Israel with a surface to air missile.”
Man found guilty of dodging punch.
Defending yourself is not an option. Your only option is to die so we can install an Al Qaeda/Saudi Arabia supported government in Syria.
Of course, the MSM headlines refer to the Israeli attack as “retaliation,” when in fact the Syrian missile was launched at Israeli aircraft during an Israeli airstrike.
For ‘israel’ the only acceptable response to their violence is to lie down and die compliantly.
There might be more to this event. The Syrian or Iranian missile went a long way. I’m not making a moral argument; I’m saying this might be a big event in the background between the two sides.
What surprised me was that both the Israeli air protection system and the top of the range Patriot system failed yet again.
Patriot is hyped beyond all reason. Re-evaluation of its initial “success” in the Persian Gulf was shocking.
It didn’t surprise me. Based on the performance of the PAC system against Houthi missile fire in Saudi Arabia, it makes perfect sense.
Idiots