Claiming earlier in the day that Hezbollah had fired a pair of rockets at Israel, doing no damage and causing no injuries, Israeli artillery and warplanes attacked Syria Tuesday, confirming “direct hits” on several army posts.
Israeli officials insisted the rockets that landed in the Golan Heights were a “blatant violation of Israeli sovereignty,” and that they considered Syria responsible since they are allied with Hezbollah.
They offered no explanation for why they figured Hezbollah was behind the initial rocket fire. It is true that Hezbollah was looking to retaliate against them after Israel attacked Syria recently, killing several of Hezbollah’s top anti-ISIS leaders, but the group seems like it would be able to muster more than just a couple stray rockets that didn’t damage anything.
There are still no reports on the extent of the damage on the Syrian side, though with multiple army bases apparently targeted, it is likely that the Assad government’s anti-ISIS capabilities just took another big hit from Israel, who has been attacking off and on for months now.
This is Netanyahu's political campaign strategy. His government believes they can attack any one of their neighbors with impunity, and if any dare respond, they resort to this. Naturally, their mouthpieces in the media always describe Israel's aggressive actions as "firing back" or "responding".
Bibi has to get a war started or look for a new job. I suspect he will continue to bomb and shot people till he does.
“blatant violation of Israeli sovereignty,” says the Israeli war criminal. Wow, what does he have to say about all the “blatant violation of Syria's sovereignty"? with all their airstrikes in Syria? Syria should be shooting down these warplanes. Just do it Syria.
Is Israel in league with the people we're supposed to be fighting? Syria and Hezbollah are fighting against ISIS- our enemy- yet here is Israel attacking THEM!
I think it's past due time for the US to reassess who is and isn't our friend in the Middle East.
While US forces are doing everything they can to weaken ISIS at one end, Israel is doing everything they can at the other end to strengthen them. Face it: Israel wants ISIS to occupy Damascus. They don't care that it would create a vast terrorist state on their border, occupy Baghdad, and perhaps Jordan and Saudi Arabia itself. They just care about their imaginary existential threat, Iran, and the enemy that defeated them in 2006, Hezbollah.
They are allied just not with Al Queda- they're allied with ISIS.
Perhaps soon we'll see Israeli airplanes contesting airspace with American, the Americans bombing ISIS, the Israelis bombing the other side.
Because they are on the other side.
Netanyahu is desperate for a war with Hezbollah!
Israel saying yet again: "je suis IS".
ISIS Air Force strikes again.
Still trying to get that Syria/Hizballah war going… This was the same tactic used earlier in the Syrian crisis – get the Syrian insurgents to attack Turkey – and then Israel – then have Turkey – and then Israel – fire back at Syrian troops to get Assad to respond, thus justifying a US/NATO attack on Syria.
As I've said repeatedly here, the entire goal of the Syria crisis is to give Israel a chance at attacking Hizballah in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon via Syrian territory. It is necessary for Israel to degrade both Syria and Hizballah's ability to function as effective actors in an Iran war before Israel can start that Iran war. This has been the plan all along and nothing has changed.
Israel is NOT in a postion to DARE to attack Iran, you the propagandist for Israelis! If Israel could do it, would have done it by now. Not now, not ever. Stop your zionist propaganda.
Syria must hit back now. These terrorists and theives must be treated the same. The world is fed up, fed up. Down with the zionists and their supporters.