Syrian air defenses were active Sunday, intercepting Israeli missiles during an attack on the major Shayrat air base in the central city of Homs.
Details are still emerging, but at least two soldiers were killed and three more wounded. Israel, as usual, declined comment on the incident.
Israel has been attacking Syria with increasing frequency in recent weeks. Many strikes were in Damascus. Air defenses intercepted some strikes, but considerable damage was inflicted.
Russia has put Shayrat base through major expansions in the past three years. There were unconfirmed claims of Iran’s Air Force using the site.
An Iranian presence would be a pretext for Israeli attacks. Israel is always interested in going after Iranian targets throughout the region.
At the same time, Russia has cautioned Israel against attacks on Russia-related targets in Syria, and Israel has been afraid of going too far and having Russia directly intervene to stop them.
The recent escalations, however, coming as Russia is getting more deeply involved in Ukraine, may suggest that Israel believes Russia is too busy to intervene, and is testing its limits with more and more strikes.
Israel’s latest elections may also portend further attacks, as Benjamin Netanyahu, a decisive winner, has long been an advocate of aggressive military action.
i wonder how much of the oil stolen from syria by uncle sam makes it’s way to israel?
from google = “israel is home to two refineries, with a combined capacity of nearly 300,000 b/d.”
And just how is this oil supposed to flow from Syria into Israel?Where are the pipelines? Where is the evidence that any oil is being stolen by anybody? Yes, and Israel is stealing “mud” from the West Bank.
Rubber tires, most likely 😉
So in the middle of a war zone,these supposed trucks are crossing the Syria,Lebanon,Israeli borders. Yeah,right.where is your proof?Most likely is not facts,it is feeding one’s suppositions. These are dangerous closed borders.
Yes, what flows to Israel is dollars.
Glad it annoys you.
uncle sam is literally stealing the syrian oil as soon as it is pumped from the ground.
https://www.google.com/search?q=us+taking+syrian+oil&source=hp&ei=U95yY4TRH6TAkPIP6qeQmAQ&iflsig=AJiK0e8AAAAAY3LsY85JM9Vdqp6hu_ozYinYbwlPcAo0&oq=US+taking&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAEYAjIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQ6CwguEIMBENQCELEDOgsIABCABBCxAxCDAToRCC4QgAQQsQMQgwEQxwEQ0QM6BQguEIAEOgsILhCABBDHARCvAToLCC4QgwEQsQMQgAQ6CAgAELEDEIMBOggILhCABBDUAjoOCC4QgwEQxwEQsQMQ0QM6DgguELEDEIMBEMcBENEDOggIABCABBCxA1AAWM0iYLQ0aABwAHgAgAGkAogBywiSAQU1LjMuMZgBAKABAQ&sclient=gws-wiz
it could be easily diverted to israel for refinement instead of hauling it all the way to the US
where are the tankers?Where are the ports?oooh,the boogeyman.
There is very little oil in Syria, and never was very much. It was less than Syrian domestic consumption. It is high quality, so they would trade some of it for more of lesser quality, barely eeking out enough. The war then destroyed much of that production.
The US grabbing the oil is just to deprive Assad of the asset. He must import more, and has less to trade for it.
The limit of this approach is that Assad’s ally is one of the world’s major oil producers of government-controlled oil, and so it is supplied to him anyway.
This is US spitefulness. It is not even really hurting Assad, which is why it lingers.
Will we ever read a bye line that reads “IsraHell “ without the word “ attacks” proceeding it?
Mr. Putin, I realize you’re a bit preoccupied by the war against NATO and the United Snakes, but please do something. Syria is your longtime ally.
How about bombing US bases and blame it on Israel? 😉
Israel has balls but not much brains…
No balls there, either, Donna. IsraHell’s idea of “war” consists of murdering Palestinian kids throwing stones.
Not limited to children. Paraplegics, Journalists, unarmed protestors and anyone else they can get away with. But they always seem to clear themselves with “internal” investigations which the US oks.
Exactly Wars. The word “justice” is not in the vocabulary of either.
I am sure the UN is all upset and is calling for sanctions on Israel. Right?
When Syria housed terrorist training camps that send men to kill Israelis,what did the UN do?–squat. Busting up arms shipments to terrorists is totally just. It is peaceful.
“Busting up arms shipments to terrorists is totally just.”
Then that $4 billion per year being sent to the REAL terrorists should be fair game.
OOOO,it raised its head again.So lets talk about the 8.6% raise for social security-while the people who actually work 2 jobs and 24 hour shifts and pay taxes are
getting nothing.
Did I piss the little tool off? 24 hour shifts? No rebuttal but trying to make me feel guilty for collecting from a system that I paid into for 46 years. It didn’t work. I will enjoy my raise and I thank you for contributing to my income.
Yes,people are working 24 hour shifts-the idea of which is inconceivable to you.
Inconceivable and against the law in my state. At least for the line of work I was in. You’re an idiot if you think that’s prevalent. You’re an idiot either way, but more so if you believe that.
Its apparent that you have never heard of flextime.By the way,cantankerous,nasty, and obsessed does not make for brains or truth.
Don’t know and don’t care. I’m retired. I worked from the age of 16. I don’t have to explain myself to a little turd like you.
😂
“Israel’s latest elections may also portend further attacks, as Benjamin Netanyahu, a decisive winner, has long been an advocate of aggressive military action.”
That’s like saying the next US president will continue the US belligerence around the world. There is no difference from one warmonger to the next in either the US or Israel so the status quo will remain regardless of who might be next in line.
The most violent state in the Middle East.
That is the price of survival.
When you try to stick a triangle peg in a circle hole, there is always a conflict.
When people pound you into that circle,then you have no choice but to fit in.
Or extinction?… Israel is more than willing to push things to the edge…. They are a nuclear country…
When five nations attack you,you fight for your survival. Since you said “always”-Nasser said his mission was to destroy Israel;there was a war of survival.Poor Iran has 80 mil lion people,it intends to destroy Israel. Israelinukes mean survival.
Never happened. But Israel has attacked everyone it can reach, some many times.
Israel is taking advantage of Russia’s distraction in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Zelinsky tells the world that he wants Ukraine to be just like Israel.
This combination suggests that when Russia is free of this war, in six months or a year or two, things will get ugly for Israel.
Payback. Always is often unpleasant, but it ought never really be a surprise.
I don’t think it will ever get ugly for the so-called “Israel”
Too many ties between Russia and the Zionist pseudo-state in Palestine. USSR was the major contributor to its establishment.
But I imagine there will be strong diplomatic pressure from Eurasian alliance once the Anglo-American terrorists are dislodged from Ukraine and Mideast. With out protection from Anglo-American terrorists, so-called “Israel” will probably be pacified and give up the nukes. The only payer in the region who is interested in perpetual warfare is the Anglo-American empire.
Let Russia give up ITS nukes. It was Russia’s pogroms that gave birth to Zionism.
What are you talking about? Stalin created an entire republic in the far east for the Jews. It’s is twice the size of so-called “Israel”
Russia’s mid east policy is the same as it was before the Ukraine mess.Russia will look to the east to become rich as the NRG supplier to India and China.