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Israeli warplanes reportedly delivered airstrikes against Syrian army targets in the Qasioun Mount region near Damascus early on March 22nd. Israeli jets allegedly carried out four rounds of airstrikes. There were no reports about casualties or damage suffered by Syrian government forces.
Initially reports about the incident appeared in pro-militant social media accounts and then were widely spread by the Israeli media. If confirmed, the recent raids were the fourth round of airstrikes attributed to Israel in Syria in less than a week.
The reports about the fresh Israeli airstrikes in Syria came just a few hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to continue hitting targets in Syria. Netanyahu made this claim during a visit to China, adding that he had informed Putin of Israel’s intentions.
The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned Israel’s Ambassador to Moscow to protest an Israeli military strike near the Syrian city of Palmyra last Friday. This was after Israeli jets breached Syrian air space and attacked a military target near Palmyra on the night of March 17th. According to Israel’s Channel 2, the Israeli strike hit close to Russian troops. In turn, the Syrian military fired several anti-aircraft missiles at Israeli warplanes and claimed that one of them was destroyed and another one hit. The Israel Defense Forces denied these claims and said that one missile fired from the ground was intercepted by the Arrow 2 anti-ballistic missile.
Following the incident, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, threatened to destroy Syrian air defense systems. “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.
At the same time, Israel continued to push the narrative that Russia and other powers must move to limit Iran’s military strength in Syria. The director-general of Israel’s Intelligence Ministry, Chagai Tzuriel, repeated this in an interview to Reuters on March 21st.
The growing Israeli propaganda and diplomatic and military efforts over the conflict in Syria came amid the intensification of military operations of the so-called moderate opposition against government forces in northern Hama and eastern Damascus. Jaish al-Islam and other groups invited to the Astana format supported the military actions of Hayat Tahir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda). This showed that the negotiations in Astana brokered by Ankara, Moscow, and Tehran resulted in no progress in separating “moderate rebels” from their “radical counterparts.”
Most likely, this situation is a result of the fact covered by SF in its last two videos about the geopolitical standoff in the post-ISIS Middle East – Turkey provides a general support to the Israeli efforts aimed at undermining the Assad government and limiting the Iranian influence. Turkey and Israel also share the ground in supporting so-called moderate rebels operating in western Syria.
Are the Syrians using the S-300 air defence systems?
No.
Syria has no intention to take on the ZionistWorldOrder by provoking its most beloved satellite, the unfortunate Israel. Would be silly & suicidal.
Let’s try to be realistic. As humiliating and frustrating Israeli airstrikes inside Syria are, they pose no real threat to anyone, not to Syria, not even to Hezbollah. Somewhere a toddler is throwing a tantrum – so be it.
Syria has more pressing problems – East Ghouta, terrorists pockets around Damascus, North Hama, the race to Raqqa, etc. – and is doing exceedingly well. Day for day, together with its allies, ever since the Russians landed in Latakia.
Defending against and pushing back the ZWO’s most formidable, ever shape-shifting mercenary armies known by a thousand names, with a trillion dollars budget, is unheard of. Period. Syria, Russian and allies are doing it right now. A yet untold success story of humongous proportions and severe implications in the years to come.
I can’t follow your logic. On the one hand we are supposed to be witnessing the “unheard of” event of a country (Syria) actually defending against the formidable ZWO. On the other hand, it would be “suicidal” for Syria to attack the aircraft that bomb it, it would be suicidal not to let itself be bombed by Israel whenever Israel feels like bombing, on account of you should not upset the toddler when he throws a tantrum. Extremely dangerous toddler.
Or something like that.
Rich nonsense.
omg this is a horrible complication…I wish someone would blast Israel off the map…just the areas that are legally Israel – and then finish off the illegal part of the fake state with ground troops.
hate that fake state – and Turnkey does seem a good bedfellow for it.
I’m not finding anything about israeli airstrikes near “Qasioun Mount” for 22 mar., 2017, though i did find material for an israeli airstrike there from an earlier year, 2013 I believe.
“Turkey provides a general support to the Israeli efforts aimed at undermining the Assad government and limiting the Iranian influence. Turkey and Israel also share the ground in supporting so-called moderate rebels operating in western Syria.”
The israelis are probably closer to the kurds opposing turkey than the americans are and turkey is not very happy about that kurd-american relationship. The israelis are famous for playing both sides, but I doubt the turks are any more pleased about israeli-kurd luv than they are about the pindo support for kurds. Also, erdogan did a pretty good number insulting the zionazi sludge after their Mavi Marmara war crime, israelis are “wee little men” when comes to being insulted and hold grudges to an extraordinary degree. I suspect the israelis may have even had a part in the coup attempt against erdogan.
Sputnik has an article that may allude to the 22 mar. israeli airstrike:
Why Israel is ‘Deeply Interested’ in Continuation of Syrian War
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201703231051872236-israel-insterested-syrian-war/
“Several such missions are reported to have taken place in recent days in what marks the most serious incident between Tel Aviv and Damascus since the 2011 foreign-sponsored insurgency in Syria morphed into a large-scale war.”
That being the allusion to other attacks besides the 17 mar. one. Other interesting material from the article:
“Israel is deeply interested in the ongoing standoff between the Sunnis and the Shia. Tel Aviv wants them to continue killing each other. Nothing presents a threat to Israel as long as this war is ongoing. The Israeli Air Force launches airstrikes against Shia militias in Syria, tipping the balance. This evens out the chances and the war drags on,” he told RT.
Balmasov, an expert at the Middle East Institute at the Russian International Affairs Council, also suggested that Israel could use a border incident to move its forces into southern Syria.
“One could not rule out that Israel does not deploy its troops to the southern buffer zone which borders the Golan Heights to create a territorial entity on the basis of Druze settlements using some kind of an incident as a pretext,” he said.”
The israelis want to Balkanize Syria to make it easier for them to steal territory and colonize the rest. I’m guessing they are just itching for an opportunity to invade Syria. Their pindo sukas no doubt are coordinating their moves to confirm to the zionazi strategy. Turkey may also be involved, but this is much less certain.
The israelis are obviously running these attacks to get a response their zio-gay media and quislings can then use to usher in a zionazi invasion of Syria and have their american (tuppence regime) quislings start openly attacking Syria. The Russians obviously realize the zionazi strategy and are not taking the zio-gay bait.
“According to the message, delivered via Russian mediators, attacks on Syrian military objects will be met with Scud missiles launched at Israeli military (IDF) bases. If Israel attacks civilian infrastructure, Syrian missiles will be fired at Israel’s Haifa port and petrochemical plant. The missiles will be launched without any prior notice, the statement said.”
Very interesting article
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201703261051967762-syria-israel-scuds-response/
Thierry Meyssan details the crimes of the French in helping ISIS attack Syria, especially the Lafarge cement company, who deliver 2.6 million tons of cement for ISIS’ fortifications and underground bunkers.
http://www.voltairenet.org/article195754.html
Crunch Time: Will Liberation of Raqqa Turn Into ‘War of All Against All’?
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201703261051971394-syria-raqqa-military-operation-liberation/
“A number of Kurdish publications claim that the US has already agreed with Kurdish leaders on the establishment of an autonomous Kurdistan in Syria in case of the capture of Raqqa. Subsequently, this allegedly should add to creating an independent Kurdish state in Syria and Iraq.
Muslim Mukhemmed, member of the Politburo of the Syrian Democratic Party of Kurdistan (PDK-S), and one of the leaders of the National Council of Syrian Kurds (ENKS), Muslim Muhammad, told Sputnik Turkey that “the Americans have this project.”
Commenting on this, Veselov drew attention to the Americans’ unwillingness to cooperate with the Turks on the Raqqa operation given that Ankara is up and arms against the creation of autonomous Kurdistan.
With the SDF and Turkey at loggerheads with each other, the Syrian government are willing to cooperate with neither the SDF nor Ankara, Veselov said, adding that the situation was is aggravated by the deployment of US ground forces to the area adjacent to Raqqa. In this vein, he recalled that Washington have long been seeking the resignation of President Assad.”
It appears the israeloamerican plan still is to dismember Syria and that israel’s tuppence regime quislings are using their “fight” against daesh in order to aide the local kurds to carve off a large section of Syria for the israeloamerican kurdistan project.
The US/Anglo/European/Zionists are really good at promising things they have no rights to. Sykes-Picot, Balfour Declarations to name a couple of major colonialist over-reaches.
Looking at the wider view, it is obvious the US/Anglo/Zionists agreed to allow Israel and the Saudi Royals to divide control (not necessarily have direct governance) over the Greater Middle East between them. The Israeli-Zionists… well just because “god” said so… and the Saudis because the US/Anglo/Zionist military needs cheap Saudi oil to fuel the NWO-Manifest Destiny MIC.
For proof, just observe how the Zionist/Wahabbist aggression and proxy-wars never happen between Israel/Saudi Arabia. They share enemies, but never cross each other’s path… so convenient, one would think this was planned. And it is, in the Rothschild mansions.
It’s already happened- the Kurds have annexed with the help of the Americans vast swathes of Syrian territory- they’ve cleansed the populace and they will do worse still in Raqqa
Forget Saudi Arabia- they aren’t really a part of this- You noticed the US allowed the go ahead of the 9/11 law suit against Saudi Arabia right?
that speaks volumes- The US doesn’t need Saudi oil- they have Canada as their big supplier and can get oil in Libya
The courts in the US are not 100% Deep State/Rothschild controlled… yet.
The Saudi/9-11 cases put the US gov’t/MIC and Deep State in a Catch-22. If they forced the cases to be dropped, they risked looking like they betrayed all the patriotic 9-11 families and First Responders. If they genuinely allowed the lawsuits, they were facing a geopolitical crisis with the Saudis.
The Saudis will have been assured the US gov’t will do all it can to hamstring the cases behind the scenes. And in return for being the 9-11 whipping-boys, the Saudis got the weapons they wanted to continue arming ISIS in Syria/Iraq and invading Yemen.
What will probably happen is the cases will drag through the courts for a decade or two, with the US gov’t quietly blocking access to any damning evidence they have. There will be so many redacted files, intermediaries and shell companies between the hijackers and the Saudis to make it impossible to 100% pin the blame where it belongs. And it isn’t totally the Saudi’s to blame for 9-11… Israel/Mossad/Rothschild is my best guess… cui bono?
Meanwhile, Iran responds to the israeloamerican economic war and terrorist support.
Iran Imposes Sanctions Against 15 US Companies ‘Supporting Terrorism’
https://sputniknews.com/world/201703261051973512-iran-us-sanctions-terrorism/
“Tehran has imposed sanctions on 15 US companies “supporting terrorism,” local media reported Sunday.
Tasnim news agency reported that Iranian Foreign Ministry made the move responding to new US sanctions against Tehran.”
Mosul Airstrikes: US Seeks to ‘Shift Blame’ for Civilian Casualties
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201703261051979557-mosul-airstrikes-us-civilian-casualties/
“In an interview with Sputnik, retired US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski specifically drew attention to Washington’s efforts to shift blame pertaining to deadly Mosul airstrikes to another side.
“It’s undeniable that there were civilian casualties in the Mosul airstrikes and now they have to deal with it,” Kwiatkowski said referring to media and social media reports confirming the civilian death toll.
According to her, the goal of the US Central Command’s current probe into the Mosul strikes is to try and shift the blame.
“Again, you have to think about motivation. What motivated them to launch an investigation is certainly to shift the blame from the US. Casualties produce negative publicity and the real purpose of the military public affairs is to reduce this publicity,” Kwiatkowski said.”
US Expands Defacto Syrian Invasion
http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2017/03/us-expands-defacto-syrian-invasion.html?m=1
“The fact that US policy remains absolutely unchanged despite a new president taking office is no surprise.
But like Israel’s seizure and ongoing occupation of the Golan Heights, Turkish and American incursions and territorial seizures constitutes a similar, incremental dismemberment of the Syrian state. Facing the likely prospect that most of Syria’s territory will return to Damascus’ control sooner than later, the US and its collaborators in Ankara are attempting to take and hold as much territory as possible before this happens in a bid to weaken Syria ahead of future, yet to unfold rounds of targeted destabilization.”
Syria’s Biggest Dam Partially Collapses Due to SDF-Daesh Fight Near Raqqa
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201703261051982213-tabqa-dam-collapse-raqqa-sdf-daesh/
“Tabqa Dam, which functions primarily as a hydropower plant, suspended service after its control center was damaged by what could have been an airstrike or shelling, a source told Lebanese broadcaster Al Mayadeen, adding that technical experts could not reach the site due to continuing fighting in the area.
Earlier this week, US and Syrian opposition forces were air-dropped to Syria’s Raqqa province to conduct a joint operation to liberate several villages in the vicinity of Syria’s northern Al Tabqah town from Daesh.
The SDF forces, deployed up to four kilometers (approximately 2.5 miles) away from the dam, plan to seize the city of Tabqa, which is the last big Daesh stronghold on the way to Raqqa, de facto Daesh capital in Syria.”
Syrian Democratic Forces Deny Allegations of Tabqa Dam Being Damaged
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201703271051987595-sdf-denies-tabqa-dam-collapsing/
“We are very careful in order for the Euphrates Dam to not be damaged during the operation to liberate it [from the terrorists of the Islamic State (Daesh)]. However, the international coalition’s air force conducts massive strikes against the IS units around Tabqa in order to secure the dam,” official spokesman of the SDF said in a statement obtained by Sputnik.”
Looks like the initial damage report was probably true after all.
SDF Temporarily Halts Advance on Syria’s Raqqa to Allow Repairs at Tabqa Dam
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201703271052003562-syria-tabqa-dam/
“On Sunday, local media reported that the dam partially collapsed as result of the fighting between the SDF and the Daesh. The SDF refuted the information that the dam had collapsed but said the US-led international coalition had conducted numerous strikes against the Daesh in the area.
“In order to protect the dam on the Euphrates… and at the request of the dam authority, we have decided to stop the operation in the region of the dam for four hours. This is being done to allow an engineer team to pass through and work on the dam,” the SDF press service said on its website.”
US Support Lets Global Terrorism Flourish
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2017/03/us-support-lets-global-terrorism.html?m=1
“It’s by ending support. Without it from America, NATO, Israel and other regional rogue states, these groups will wither and fade away.
Instead, they flourish because Washington uses them as imperial foot soldiers. Instead of cooperating with Russia in combating them, America and its rogue allies continue supplying them with weapons, munitions and other material support.
At her weekly press briefing, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova praised the constructive conflict resolution approach shown by Syria.
Opposition representatives aren’t cooperating, she explained, saying:
“We unfortunately must note – and this is obvious – that not all parties are pleased with the fact that the political process has restarted.”
“We regularly record attempts to stymie its progress through certain representatives of the opposition who are continuing to make all sorts of preconditions verging on ultimatums.”
“The militants are continuing to receive arms and ammunition, new members of criminal groups and, above all, funding from abroad.”
Zakharova blasted America, Britain and France for “refus(ing) to condemn the bloody terrorist attacks in Damascus (earlier) in March and the suppression of these events, as well as of the use of chemical agents by ISIS terrorists in Syria and Iraq…”
They reject “tak(ing) effective steps to confront the terrorist threat, which remains extremely high.”
“Clearly, not all parties want peace in Syria,” she stressed. Without naming names, she means America, Britain, France, Israel, other regional rogue states and terrorists they support.
She expressed outrage over new US sanctions on eight Russian companies for engaging in what the State Department calls “proliferation” activity with Iran, Syria and North Korea, saying:
“This step runs counter to the statements we hear from Washington that emphasize the fight against terrorism, in particular in Syria, where it has gained a foothold.”
“On the contrary, it is completely at odds with such declarations and undermines the prospects of setting up comprehensive multilateral cooperation to destroy Islamic State and other terrorist groups that pose a threat to all countries, including the US.”
The duplitious nature of the tuppence regime does not fool the Russians. They realize little has changed.
I think this is a situation that cannot continue – there is simply no way an Arrow 2 missile can take out a SAM-5. In their dreams. Clearly Assad and Syria has had enough. Syria will one day deal with and finish off Israel for good. If Israelis want to be “dancers with Syrians” no problem but it is their active choice NOT Syria’s choice.
It’s reported there is an agreement that the US is going to give over Syrian territory to the Kurds for Kurdistan aka Israel 2.0
The dam hasn’t collapsed that was an ISIS smokescreen to sow confusion- The kurds have some of the dam- the US has the airport.
The PKK/YPG/TAK will have their terror state- The US will have their no fly/safe zone
They will attack other nations from there.
I’ve written about this for years- it was in your face- the plan
why else was it necessary to create the perception of the kurds as persecuted, like the jews, like the kosovars? So the US can come in, do the right thing, and present as the good guy
It’s very formulaic- and yet it worked again
http://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.ca/2017/03/taking-raqqa-dam-airport-captured-us.html
I mentioned a long time ago that when you start seeing action in Daraa again, that is when you know the desperation has set in and Israel will start to get involved.
It is starting to happen now. Raqqa is turning into a complicated mess in conjunction with this. Again, I would say if Syrian forces can hold Palmyra and Deir ez-Zur at all cost it will shut down the outsiders ambitions for the Qatar pipeline and ultimately end the headchopper scum invasion.
Btw,
Most of my posts relating to CIA/Vault 7 releases and their importance in world events keep getting deleted by mods. I seriously don’t know what is the deal with you guys avoiding this topic like the plague.
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Thanks for the explanation Mod