The Israeli military sounded a triumphant tone on Thursday morning, having just conducted a massive bombing campaign on targets in Syria, amid a back and forth of rocket fire along the border with Israel.
Israel said the airstrikes were in response to rockets fired into the Golan Heights, though the rocket fire came on the heels of a more limited Israeli strike on targets outside Damascus the night before.
Iranian military capabilities have been set back “many months,” after strikes on “dozens” of targets, Israeli Defense Forces said. IDF spokesperson Leutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus said that the overnight strike was the “largest such operation [by Israel] against Iranian targets,”
“All of the targets that we engaged were effectively destroyed,” he added, causing “significant damage” to the Iranians.
“We have hit almost all the Iranian infrastructure in Syria,” Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said, according to a post on the ministry’s official website. “If we have rain, there will be a flood in them.”
While all this was going on, on the heels of president Trump’s decision to pull out of the Iran deal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was getting the royal treatment – in Moscow.
The long-scheduled visit with Russian President Vladimir Putin also coincided with an important Russian holiday, Victory Day. Netanyahu was special guest of Putin for the annual military parade, Anshel Pfeffer writes for Haaretz, a detail that shouldn’t be overlooked.
“Not only did Putin do everything to play up his guest’s presence, but hours after Israel’s counter-attack on Thursday morning, the IDF spokesman made it clear that, before Israel embarked on its largest campaign of bombing in Syria since 1974, Russia had been notified through the deconfliction process that the two countries have had in place since September 2015.
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“Russia and Iran are both supporting Assad but that doesn’t mean they share the same priorities. Putin can’t, or won’t get the Iranians to leave their strongholds in Syria. But he seems content to allow Israel to continue bombing them.”
But, Pfeffer says, if things continue to escalate, Putin will eventually have to pick a side.
Dan Korn are you kidding? all this information is false. you base your information on Western and American media! In fact, you are misinformed.
Do some research on the American intervention in the Middle East and you will discover how bad the Americans and the French are. Ready to kill for money and their own interest.
they always use the intent of democracy to justify their attack after what do we have? a country destroyed without any administration!
Today, many experts have proved in the same voice that Saddam Hussein did not use chemical weapons and that he did not have the technology to develop it.
look at libya, yemen, irack and many others …
think twice!
cordially
In this type of theatre one can’t ask for a better training ground. One’s skills are sure to improve. To break a few eggs to make an omelet is now being served a la carte by the Russians.
I no that president Putin is not as stupid as people think that he will support Iran let us look and see how Russian will support terrorist country president Trump said it all that God can gauge by the Friend you keep if Russian choose the support Islamic nations against Israel is let for the all I no at this time it is over intimidation against Israel is over no nation can come against them and go free God is watching the is God in Haven the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob is at work as for Palestinians let them accept anything that Israel will present to them if the continued this way the will be dying which is not Good. Let Muslims forget about if you are not Islamic you will die God is not going to gauge us because of our religion is with our faith in him and his son Jesus Christ the one who bring civilization in the world God bless each one of every country God bless united state of America God bless united state of Israel and God bless united state of Biafra In God and his son Jesus christ we trust
I agree..Russia can’t easily be depended on..as the Russian are too slow to respond to any form of aggression on their allies this the USA would not take for granted.
Ping Olarte. Alam mo ba ang meaning ng Lol mo e Lucifer our Lord? Are you Satanist?
Fool!
There was no "back & forth" you deceiving media liar. Iran alone attacked Israel & then got the snot beat out of them for doing it. GOOD.