On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Israeli troops on top of Syria’s Mount Hermon, located on the Syria-Lebanon border, and said Israel would continue occupying Syrian territory it captured following the regime change in Damascus “until another arrangement can be found.”
Netanyahu said he hadn’t been to Mount Hermon since being involved in a military patrol in the area 53 years ago. “This place hasn’t changed, it’s the same place, but its importance to Israel’s security has only been reinforced in recent years, and especially in recent weeks with the dramatic events taking place below us here in Syria,” he said.
Netanyahu was joined by other Israeli officials, including Defense Minister Israel Katz, who said Israeli troops would occupy Mount Hermon for “as long as it is needed.”
“Our presence here at the peak of the Hermon strengthens security and adds a dimension of both observation and deterrence to Hezbollah’s strongholds in the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon and deterrence against the rebels in Damascus, who pretend to present a moderate image, but belong to the most extreme Islamic sects,” Katz said.
Netanyahu celebrated the ousting of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and took credit for starting the process that led to the regime change, but Israel is now using alleged threats from the al-Qaeda-linked HTS that took over Damascus to justify its invasion of southern Syria.
Israel started its land grab by seizing a buffer zone that separates the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights from the rest of Syria, but Israeli forces didn’t stop there and are reportedly continuing to capture villages in southern Syria.
Israel has also conducted a massive bombing campaign, destroying the former government’s military assets. For its part, HTS is saying it doesn’t seek conflict with Israel and won’t allow Syria to be used as a “launchpad” for attacks on Israel.
BB triumpnans! King David redevivus … the Messiah at last! … the third temple … .
Seems we're to be put through it all … impotently watching the grizzly low motion slaughter of innocent Amalek … and pay for it ….
Sure a lot of celebrations going on in Israel and in the USA over killing people. somehow they still believe that "might makes right" regardless how many innocents get slaughtered.
So far the world is still looking and Israel is looking for their first Messiah to appear and the Evangelical Christians in America are giddy about Jesus returning in Israel soon.
"… and Israel is looking for their first Messiah to appear and the Evangelical Christians in America are giddy about Jesus returning in Israel soon."
'Soon' being the operative word – in both cases, as for as much self-fulfilling of their own prophetic precursor events as both religions have strived to accomplish, I expect both will find precisely nobody divine shows up.
They might have been wise to note all the very many times the Ihovians (Jehovah's Witnesses)(in Latin, 'Jehovah' begins with an 'i') swore For Suresies that the End Times were upon us in 1799, 1874, 1878, 1914, 1918, 1925, 1975, and other more recent dates I don't have on hand.
A kid I knew in high school was a Jehovah's Witness. He was a bright kid, and you would have thought that he would have gone on to college.
Instead, he was determined to get married right of high school, and raise a family before the world came to an end.
The capability of the human mind toward self delusion is boundless. The more intelligent you are the greater your capacity for self delusion.
But Putin…………
NO O-C-C-U-P-A-T-I-O-N!!!
F-R-E-E-D-O-M!!!
“Our presence here at the peak of the Hermon strengthens security and adds a dimension of both observation and deterrence to Hezbollah’s strongholds in the Beqaa Valley in Lebanon and deterrence against the rebels in Damascus, who pretend to present a moderate image, but belong to the most extreme Islamic sects,” Katz said.
This guy couldn't even play along with the propaganda machine telling us how much "better" HTS was as compared to Assad. I mean just a few weeks would have made the whole bullshit we've been flooded with since Assad left a bit more believable. But why should he care? It's not like there would be ANY repercussions on ANYTHING ANY Israeli official says. EVER.
Bombing a nation which just had a coup is like stomping a man who just got beat up and is laying on the ground bloody. Decent people do not do this.
And where is your precious U.N. to step in to calm things down and protect the international borders?
Oh, that’s right! The U.N. Like the League of Nations will go the way of the dodo bird.
The UN is useless.
Maybe he meant arraignment.