With details still emerging on Israel’s Friday attack against a military site south of the Syrian capital city of Damascus, a strike which Israeli media have presented as being an attack against Iran, a new round of strikes was reported Monday night, against different targets in metro Damascus.
The attacks targeted Jamraya, a suburb west of Damascus, according to Syrian state media, and targeted a military research site in the area. Syrian media reported that three of the Israeli missiles were shot down by air defenses.
The same site was apparently targeted by Israel back in 2013. Despite being primarily referred to as a “research site,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claimed it destroyed substantial amounts of arms stored within.
As is often the case with Israeli attacks on Syria, Israeli officials have yet to directly comment on the matter. Though Israeli strikes early in the Syrian War were supposedly meant to keep Hezbollah from getting arms shipments, increasingly the strikes seem to be at any Syrian military site Israel seems to feel like hitting, and let the details remain totally unspoken.
The details may be found on SANA and Al-Manar, where they don’t couch the fact that Israel is coordinating its undeclared war against Syria with terrorist groups. Official warning has been given. http://sana.sy/en/?p=120208
Isn’t it up to Syria if they want their allies to have a presence in their country? Would Iran attacking a country that the US was welcomed, and had a presence, elicit a response?
This is highlighting the reality in practice, that the ability to shoot down missiles is met by firing a few more missiles. The missiles get through, some of them, enough of them. The target is destroyed.
The answer will not be found in antimissile defenses. Shooting down the bullets won’t work. They just fire more bullets.
Russia said last year when Obama was considering a “no-fly zone” in Syria that anyone attacking the Syrian military would be shot down.
Well, it’s time Russia stepped up and demanded – first directly of Israel and then in the UN Security Council – that Israel stop doing so. And if they don’t, Russia needs to insure that Syria can directly confront Israel’s attacks.
Of course, Russia doesn’t want a war with Israel – nor does Syria. And these attacks – which have continued since many years previously – are directly intended to start a war against Syria. So it’s difficult for Russia or Syria to respond directly without giving Israel – and hence the US – an excuse to directly attack Syria a la Libya – which is Israel’s and US’ goal.
But at some point Russia and Syria will have to fish or cut bait and directly defend Syria against Israel. And the one advantage is that Israel doesn’t want a war with Russia either. Russia’s assets in Syria may be minimal, but Russia could devastate Israel from long-range without much trouble. Pin-point attacks against Israeli airbases from which these attacks are launched would be an effective reminder to Israel of that fact.
More aggression by Israel against one of its neighbors.
Why do you keep referencing the “Syrian Observatory for Human Rights? There is no Observatory it is just a Sunni Muslim who lives in the UK who creates anti-Assad Propaganda.
“There will be a day for the oppressor when he will be crushed like garlic.” – Palestinian proverb