IS THE WAR BETWEEN ISRAEL AND SYRIA ABOUT TO EXPLODE?
20
March, 2017
Israeli
Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman has threatened to destroy Syrian
air defense systems after the Syrian military fired anti-aircraft
missiles at Israeli jets carrying out air strikes last Thursday.
“The
next time the Syrians use their air defense systems against our
planes we will destroy them without the slightest hesitation,”
Lieberman said on Israeli public radio The Independent reported.
DAMASCUS FIRES MISSILES AT ISRAELI JETS CONDUCTING AIRSTRIKES ON SYRIA
Israeli
jets bombed several targets in Syria on Friday, with Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu stating that the strikes “targeted weapons bound
for Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah movement,” while the Syrian
militaryclaimed that
the jets struck a military site near Palmyra.
Syria’s
military further claimed that
they had downed one of the Israeli planes and struck another as they
were carrying out the airstrikes.
The
Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) denied that
any of their planes had been hit in the mission.
Stating that “several anti-aircraft missiles” were fired following the bombings but that no missiles had hit their jets.
Adding
that one missile was intercepted by the Israeli Aerial Defense System
known as “Arrow.”
A
Syrian army statement accused Israel of carrying out strikes
near Palmyra to help “Isis terrorist gangs and in a desperate
attempt to raise their deteriorating morale and divert attention away
from the victories which the Syrian Arab Army is making in the face
of the terrorist organizations.”
The
Syrian Foreign Ministry condemned the Israeli regime for the
violation of the Arab country’s sovereignty in two letters sent to
the UN secretary-general and the Security Council president.
“As
part of its right to defend the sanctity of its territory, the Syrian
air defense responded to this aggression and shot down one of the
planes while the rest of them were forced to flee,” the
ministry said
“The
Israeli aggression this morning comes as a new Israeli attempt to
boost the collapsed morale of terrorist groups after they were
defeated recently by the Syrian Arab Army and its allies in many
areas,” the Syrian Foreign Ministry said in the letters to the UN.
ISRAEL BOMBS SYRIAN AIRPORT; SYRIAN ARMY WARNS OF RETALIATION
This
would mark the third attack by Israelis on Syria in less than six
months. In January Israelis bombed the Syrian Mezzeh military airport
west of Damascus a mere five miles away from Syrian President Bashar
Assad’s palace which resulted in the Syrian army threatening
retaliation. Then in December of last year “several
surface-to-surface missiles” were launched by
the Israeli Defense Forces from Golan Heights at a Syrian airbase.
It
seems as if the tension is picking up again between the two countries
as this was the most serious incident since the Syrian civil war
began six years ago.
Israel
and Syria have technically
been at war for
the past 50 years due to Tel Aviv’s occupation of the Golan Heights
since 1967.
Per
the New
York Times in
2015:
With
Syria “disintegrating” after years of civil war, they argue, it
is hard to imagine a stable state to which the territory could be
returned. Further, they say that international — or, at least,
American — recognition of Israel’s 1981 annexation of the Golan
would be an appropriate salve to Israeli security concerns in the
wake of the nuclear deal with Iran.
Tel
Aviv has also been supporting anti-Assad militants operating to
topple the Syrian government which includes – Al-Nusra and Al-Qaeda
since Reuters reported in
2012 that the Free Syrian Army has ties to both extremist groups and
the FSA themselves admitted it too.
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