After deadly attacks across central Syria on Wednesday killed at least 13 people and wounded dozens, Israel seems to be continuing to step up the pace of their aggression in the neighboring country, pounding the southern city of Nawa on Thursday, in attacks that have left at least 11 civilians dead so far.
The airstrikes and shelling of the area around Nawa began concurrently with Israeli ground forces moving to take the al-Jabaliya Dam just west of the city. This is reportedly the deepest ground incursion into Syria so far since they invaded in December. There are reports that a lightly armed local militia resisted the ground troops’ advancement, though there has so far been no report that the Israeli troops sustained any casualties.
The casualties, rather seem to have happened not from any clash, but entirely from the airstrikes against Nawa and the shelling of the Tel al-Jumu hilltop near the city. Nawa hospital is reportedly faced with substantial casualties from the attacks, and though an exact number hasn’t been released, some are gravely wounded and the death toll may yet rise further.
Israel did not issue any broad official comments on what they are doing in Nawa or why they attacked it, but the Jerusalem Post is quoting unnamed IDF officials as confirming the incident to them, while presenting it as killing “armed targets” and destroying “terrorist infrastructure.”
Nawa is a city of around 60,000 people in the southern Daraa Governorate. It is a little over 10 miles from the Jordan border, and its relative distance from Israel has meant it rarely factors in to Israeli military operations.
The December invasion and increasing escalations have expanded how far from Israel invading troops are willing to go for undisclosed military goals. It is worth noting that Israel’s invasion of the southwest has centered in part on controlling sources of water in the area, and the proximity of Nawa to the al-Jabaliya Dam seems to be the largest factor in this case.
Tensions between Israel and Syria are soaring in recent days, as the invasion and the daily airstrikes become deadlier. Syria’s Islamist government initially was loathe to address the Israeli incursions at all, and talked of normalizing relations. Syria is now calling the Israeli strikes “unjustified,” though it’s not clear that’s going to amount to actively resisting the incursion or the airstrikes.
Wednesday’s strikes on Syria were about sending a message to Turkey, according to officials. Since then, they’ve accused Turkey of trying to turn Syria into a protectorate, and Defense Minister Israel Katz warned Syria would “pay a heavy price” for allowing forces hostile to Israel in their territory.
Though Katz didn’t explicitly name this hostile force in his comments, it would be unlikely it was referring to anyone but Turkey, as it came in the context of attacking sites across Syria to threaten Turkey, including an attack of an air base in Tadmur that Turkey was reportedly planning to take over just a day before.
“Love your neighbors as yourself!” Jesus Christ
Since they are still waiting for the Christ, they are following the Old Testament to kill anyone in sight that is not a "chosen one" so Christ can appear for them alone.
The really stupid thing is that the so called Christian-Zionists believe that also. Isn't Christian-Zionism an oxymoron or are they just morons.
how can they possibly believe that Jesus applauds the slaughter in Palestine?
No the really stupid thing is to belueve that by cleaning one place of corrosive corruption all social ills will be solved. No the corruption just moves to another courtyard.
torahs 'messiah' is a man of war not peace,which is one the main reasons they rejected jesus 2000 years ago…
a) The Anointed for War alludes to King Messiah, Who will take the battlefield like David His father and fight the wars of the LORD. He fights with supernatural weapons: “Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit” (Zechariah 4:6). The Almighty anoints Him with the Spirit of power to overcome the enemies of Israel.
b)Scholars have always suspected that there were military connotations to the ancient Messiah-concept. The word "anointed" is used some thirty times in the Jewish Bible, and nearly always refers to the king, almost by definition a warrior. One of the texts that confirmed the ideas of these scholars is the Florilegium from Qumran, one of the scrolls in the library that was discovered near the Dead Sea. This text, which is also known as the Eschatological midrash, was written in the second half of the first century BCE and explains several ancient prophecies in a messianic sense, among them the prophecy of Nathan quoted above and Psalm 2, also quoted above.
And concerning that which He said to David: I will give you rest from all your enemies [2 Samuel 7.11b], this means that He will give them rest from all the sons of Belial, who will seek to cause them to stumble that they may destroy them and swallow them up, just as they came with a plot of Belial to cause the sons of light to stumble and to devise wicked plots against them, delivering his soul to Belial in their wicked straying.
And YHWH declares to you that He will build you a house; and I will raise up your seed after you, and I will establish his royal throne forever. I will be a father to him and he shall be My son. [2 Samuel 7.11c-14a] This is "the branch of David" who will stand with the interpreter of the Law, who will sit on the throne in Zion at the end of days; as it is written, I will raise up the tent of David which is fallen [Amos 9.11]. This is the fallen tent of David who will stand to save Israel. […..]
Why do all the nations rage and the peoples imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth themselves, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his Messiah. [Psalm 2.1-2] The interpretation of the passage concerns the kings of the nations who will rage against the elected ones of Israel at the end of days.note
Here we encounter a Messiah who will struggle against the "sons of Belial", who are identified with the kings of the pagan nations. The text is also interesting because it links the Messiah with the end of times, i.e., connects messianism and apocalypticism. More or less the same is said in another, slightly older fragment full of lacunas.
And he will destroy him and his army. […] And you will swallow up all the uncircumcised, and you will […] And they will be righteous, and he will ascend to the height […] one anointed with the oil of the kingdom of the […]note
The fragment is too short and damaged to give a convincing interpretation, but it is clear that someone destroys a pagan army and will be recognized as Messiah after the battle. A similar event seems to be described in 4Q285, a commentary on Isaiah 10-11, although the Messiah is not mentioned.
As is is written in the book of Isaiah the prophet, And felled will be the thickets of the forest with an ax, and Lebanon by a mighty one will fall. A shoot will arise from the roots of Jesse, and a branch from his roots will bear fruit. Its interpretation is […] the branch of David. And they will judge the […]. And the prince (nasi) of the Community, the branch of David, will put him to death […] with tambourine and with dancing. And the priest will command […] the slain of the Kittim.note
If one just reads this stuff, it should make ya shudder and veer to buddhism…lol-but seriously…
Jesus surrounded himself with revolutionaries, entered Jerusalem in the manner of a king, violently cleansed the temple courtyard of Roman currency with graven images of Caesar on it, and told his followers to buy swords even if they had to sell their clothes to afford those weapons. And then he was executed by the Romans for the crime of rebellion against Rome.
The country has no government and no military. HTS has nobmilitsry to speak off . They have always been just a sufficient force to keep civiilians under control once while they controlled part of Aleppo and later controlling Idlib. Mostly controlled Idlib by food supplies from UN. They had allies in idlib, tettorists nibody wanted to touch with a tenfoot pole like AlDinka.
Now they signed — not quite sure what — agreement with SDF — a deal US pushed. But SDF cannot operate without US permission . And not likely that either of them would react to Israel bombing of Syria.
Turkey will get base sooner or later and many others. Turkey has over 100,000 Syrians in its SNA, and will want to have bases, But it is still quite murky where are the remnants of Syrian army. And it is not likey that HTS knows the location or the type of assets.