Syrian state media has reported that Israel carried out a missile strike against an area near the Damascus Airport. Two missiles were fired by Israeli warplanes, hitting a building and causing an explosion and a fire.
Details are still emerging, and it is unclear if there were any casualties. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which confirmed the Israeli attack, said it hit a warehouse near the airport which belonged to “non-Syrian” allies of the Assad government. This led some to refer to it as an arms depot.
The Israeli government has declined comment, saying they would offer no statements based on “foreign reports.” This is the first apparently confirmed Israeli strike on Syria since they made a deal with Russia on not attacking military targets during an offensive in the southwest.
Following the strikes, Russia’s military issued a statement saying they consider the ceasefire in southwestern Syria to be over. Though it cited Syrian rebel attacks in the area, it is likely that it was timed to follow the Israeli strikes, as the US has tried to portray this fighting as Russia’s fault, and is likely to be loathe to discuss the topic so soon after another Israeli attack.
When Israel finally is beaten
It will be a historic moment
Not unlike Rome falling
People will recall the moment
They heard their oppression
Had been lifted
And they became free
Not going to happen. And if the day ever comes, we have entered WW III.
Hubris hu·bris noun
excessive pride or self-confidence.
synonyms: arrogance, conceit, haughtiness, hauteur, pride, self-importance, egotism, pomposity, superciliousness, superiority; More
(in Greek tragedy) excessive pride toward or defiance of the gods, leading to nemesis.
Chutzpah chutz·pah noun informal
shameless audacity; impudence.
synonyms: audacity, cheek, guts, nerve, boldness, temerity
“It took a lot of chutzpah for them to bomb Assad’s victory party”
It ***WILL*** happen.
Are you rooting for the people of Iran,
who are protesting their theocratic, dictatorial, terror-supporting rulers?
Or do you support the people?
And Israel bombing Syria will help the Iranian people?
Do you support sanctions that hurt ONLY the PEOPLE of Iran, and not the Theocratic government?
Or do you support the people?
I didn’t say anything about Israel.
The sanctions are a response to the theocratic,
dictatorship of the govt of Iran.
The people get that, you, not so much.
That’s what the article was about, Israel bombing Syria.
It doesn’t matter who is the target of the sanctions, it’s the people that will suffer. No different than any other country we sanction. Do you notice how well fed Kim is even though the sanctions on North Korea are extreme?
You’re the one who doesn’t get it. Again, it’s the PEOPLE of Iran that will suffer, not the government.
So, … sanctions are off the table because delusional, religious nut-job dictators will make their people suffer?
You are entertaining.
You said you were concerned about the people. What do sanctions do to the people? They make them suffer. What do sanctions do to “delusional, religious nut-job dictators”? Absolutely nothing except make them more brutal and cause MORE suffering for the PEOPLE. So stop pretending to give a god damn about the people of Iran.
Sanction cause the people to recognize their PROBLEM!
I see, you’re doing them a favor. And if a few die, or a few hundred thousand like in Iraq, you can’t say we didn’t have good intentions. It’s their f**king fault for not recognizing their PROBLEM.
Continuing support for monsters is no help to their people or
the other nations those monsters threaten.
NKorea is the prime example.
ISIS also,
would you have just let them expand, decapitate and dominate their neighbors and inspire attacks on the US and EU?
You millennials need 6 months in a 3rd world nation to get your heads straight.
What the hell does any of that have to do with sanctions? Sanctions did nothing to ISIS’s ability to decapitate and North Korea developed nukes while being sanctioned. You just continue to not address what I say and repeat the same stupid s**t ad nauseam. Sanctions don’t work.
And I’m hardly a millennial.
The sanctions were never more severe on NK than the recent ones and add to that Trump’s ability to separate China from supporting Kim.
What you don’t understand is that sanctions are a PART of the pressures needed to effect change.
And that reality will never change no matter your stultifying naivete.
You “think” like a millennial.
What part of Kim building nukes while being sanctioned don’t you understand? It is the ultimate in proving sanctions don’t work. Or how about us killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqi’s to “effect change” on Saddam and yet we had to go to war to actually do it? You are the naïve one who creates his own reality when the one staring him in the face is obvious bulls**t.
Sanctions were only a PART of the equation, but a significant part.
The other PARTS were jamming a wedge between NK and China,
and then amping up the military saber-rattling every which way.
It was a beautiful thing.
Sanctions were put in place to oust Kim and stop him from developing nukes. Kim is still in power and he has nukes and is using them as a great big bargaining chip. Now tell me again how the sanctions part of the equation worked.
Former “sanctions” were weak and China assisted them,
Trump’s sanctions were crippling and China pulled away.
Stop spinning.
You’re the one spinning! It doesn’t matter if they were weak. They didn’t stop Kim from keeping power or building nukes. And they couldn’t have been too weak judging by how the average North Korean lives. Like I’ve been saying all along, sanctions only hurt the people.
Trumps sanctions are irrelevant. Kim went to the table with nukes. If Kim walks away with the US discontinuing the war games, with the US military leaving and sanctions being lifted he will get everything he wanted. If sanctions had worked Kim wouldn’t be in power and he wouldn’t have nukes.
I don’t agree that sanctions do nothing except make dictators more brutal and cause more suffering for the people.
They also give dictators someone other than themselves to blame for the brutality and suffering, resulting in the people rallying around the dictator rather than supporting the sanctioner.
The US has busted its ass to keep the current regime in Iran in power for nearly 40 years now. That regime makes a great hobgoblin for use in domestic US politics.
The Washington Free Beacon is a neoconservative — that is to say Zionist Hasbara — propaganda rag. The WFB article you cited yesterday about protests in Iran, is the usual Neocon con. Full-on crapola. But you appear to have taken it in uncritically.
The protests in Iran are encouraged, supported, and likely funded by Mossad/CIA, and involve a very small fraction of the Iranian people. Mostly MEK traitors or quisling Shah holdovers.
You appear to have drunk the Zio Kool-Aid. You are either a Zionist stooge, or just simple-minded.
I didn’t drink the kool-aid that you swallow, supporting a nut-job, theocratic, dictatorship. The people of Iran will surprise you.
And it won’t be long in coming.
Neither “nut-job” nor “dictatorial” (ie “bad”). That’s just Zio-crap, meant to brain-rape folks like you (in your case, successfully). Prepping you to acquiesce in an American attack on Iran for the benefit of the geopolitical crime-in-progress that is Israel.
The evidence of one’s own eyes shows clearly that Israel is more brazenly terroristic, more theocratic and less democratic, and vastly more subversive, and dangerous to the world than Iran. Iran is a virtual bystander to the apocalyptic chaos being wrought on humanity by the Zionists and their “Western Liberal Democracy poodles”.
But the Zionist control of the narrative — ie “brainwashing” (though I prefer the more accurate/evocative term “brain-rape”) — has been so successful that nearly the entire Western world has been converted into Poodles-for-Israel.
But patience is a virtue; this too shall pass.
No one has veto power over the Supreme Leader, ponder that.
IF———-Iran had a constitution, with limits on the Supremo Leader,
and a viable opposition party and
wasn’t apocalyptic, homicidal, theocracy you might know something other than the regime approved bilge, but obviously, you don’t.
What if he’s a good supreme leader? Ponder that.
You worship at the altar of fraudulent democracy, a true believer incapable — ***INCAPABLE*** — of independent thought. Your stooge-like advocacy for corrupt ideology-based self-enslavement has been amply demonstrated from the first moment you appeared here. You’re a waster of thoughtful people’s time.
Done. Blocked.
No “good” leader can be omnipotent,
unlimited power corrupts.
Ask any Iranian, Venezuelan or NKorean.
The American lives an fantasy zone of rage and hatred. They supported Stalin for 25 years!
Iran is a dictatorship who’s rulers just happen be religious figures.They imprison journalists and dissenters,persecute and disappear members of the Bahai faith who are seen as traitors to Islam, and plan and call for genocide against a nation that is one tenth their size and happens to have a Jewish majority. Iran created and controls Hezbollah, the worlds largest terror organization.
Why aren’t people in Iran entitled to protest, same is people anywhere else i the world?
Communism has failed everywhere n the world,after murdering tens of millions of people; the communist states have disappeared, replaced by more openly totalitarian ones.
By the way, Zionist is a good and noble concept, not a term of opprobium