On Thursday, Israel attacked the Damascus International Airport, firing eight cruise missiles in the area. Casualty details are still unclear, but the airport runway has a big hole in it.
The Syrian Observatory, strangely, was quoted as denying any attacks on the airport or vicinity. How they explain the big hole is not certain, but the narrative apparently is not of an airport being attacked.
Israel hasn’t commented on the attack at all, and why they’d be going after the airport is very uncertain. Israel has long maintained neutrality in the Syrian War, but directly attacking a civilian airport in the capital really undercuts that claim.
In the past, attacks near the airport have targeted storage alleged to have weapons. Attacking that and attacking the runway of an airport are wildly different, however, and Israel risks a backlash with this targeting.
“Israel has long maintained neutrality in the Syrian War, but directly attacking a civilian airport in the capital really undercuts that claim.”____ When you have US weapon surplus and ran out of targets you randomly bomb the airport runways to damage Syrian economy…
So now we should see an attempt to crater the runway at Ben Gurion airport? That is exactly what they deserve for doing this.
“Israel has long maintained neutrality in the Syrian War, but directly attacking a civilian airport in the capital really undercuts that claim.” I respectfully disagree regarding Israel’s claiming neutrality. See: https://www.timesofisrael.com/yaalon-syrian-rebels-keeping-druze-safe-in-exchange-for-israeli-aid/
and:
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2019/12/06/what-can-we-learn-from-the-escalating-israeli-raids-in-syria/
and:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/09/06/in-secret-program-israel-armed-and-funded-rebel-groups-in-southern-syria/
“Israel has long maintained neutrality in the Syrian War” That is so absurd it’s not worth repeating.
NA goes on to clarify his point disregarding the claim.
I see this as ratcheting up tensions to enlarge the conflict.
Knock yourself out, Israel. Just leave the U.S. out of it.
Stand on your own for once.
“The Syrian Observatory, strangely, was quoted as denying any attacks on the airport or vicinity. How they explain the big hole is not certain, but the narrative apparently is not of an airport being attacked.”
At it again. Fucking joke.
Standard explanation #2: Human shields.
Has there ever been a more worthless agency than the u.n. for not condemning israel’s terrorist crimes against Syria?