https://southfront.org/syrian-war-report-december-4-2017-israeli-iranian-tensions-gain-momentum/
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On December 2, Israeli forces launched between 4 and 6 missiles on the supposed Iranian military facility in the area of al- Kiswah in southern Damascus. According to pro-government sources, the Syrian Air Defense Force (SADF) fired several Buk-M2E surface-to-air missiles from its position in the Mezzeh airbase and intercepted at least 3 Israeli missiles. At least one Israeli missile hit the target.
On November 12, Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman threatened to destroy the supposed Iranian base in al-Kiswah and said Israel “will not allow the Shi‘ite axis to establish Syria as its forefront base.”
On December 3, Syrian government forces, led by the Tiger Forces, liberated 8 villages from ISIS in the Euphrates River Valley, in the area southeast of the city of Deir Ezzor.
The SAA and the Tiger Forces re-established control over Salhiyah, al-Jadleh, Qusur Um Saba, Safsafeh, Ajrama, Wadi al-Worod, Maan Al-Sabkha and al-Shamr al-Layeh. They also entered and secured the al-Ward oil field.
On the same day, six Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bombers delivered a massive strike on ISIS targets in the valley. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the strike destroyed munitions depots, command posts, manpower and hardware of ISIS.
On December 4, clashes continued between government troops and members of ISIS in the village of al-Qut’ah located in about 16km from al-Bukamal. As soon as the Tiger Forces reach al-Bokmal, the ISIS members remaining in Syria will be besieged in the Homs desert.
The ISIS-linked news agency Amaq also claimed that members of ISIS have downed a Syrian warplane in the outskirts of al-Bukamal. ISIS allegedly captured two pilots near the village of Al-Buq’an.
On December 3, the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) released an official statement declaring that the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have established a full control over the eastern Deir Ezzor countryside. The YPG and its female version, YPJ, are a core of the US-backed SDF.
In the statement, the YPG also thanked to the US-led coalition and the Russian military for the assistance in operations against ISIS.
YPG General Commander Sipan Hemo met with representatives of the Russian military. According to the Russian side, the Russian Aerospace Forces have conducted 627 combat sorties and destroyed over 1,450 ISIS targets supporting operations of the YPG and local tribal forces against the terrorist group. The sides has a joint operation room in Salhiya in order to coordinate efforts of the Russians, the YPG and tribal forces against ISIS. The Russians also provide assistance in establishing a committee, which will be responsible for restoring peaceful life in the eastern part of the province of Deir Ezzor. Russia is also working on the issues of aid deliveries to the area.
In northeastern Hama, the SAA continued its limited efforts to establish a foothold for the widely expected advance towards the Abu al-Dhuhur Airbase controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda). Government forces have liberated the villages of Zabadi, Qasr Shutayb and Zaferiyah and advanced on Shutayb and Albu Layl.
In Eastern Ghouta, Faylaq al-Rahman has carried out few attacks against the SAA positions in Jobar and Ayn Tarma. The SAA responded with artillery strikes. The sides have conducted no major operations each against other.
In southern Syria, clashes between the SAA and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) are ongoing southwest and northeast of the HTS-held town of Beit Jinn.
It’s not economics. Not oil or gas or pipelines either. It’s eschatology. 70th anniversary coming up and therefore Jerusalem with be recognized. Simple as that. You have no say in it whatsoever. It is scheduled. It is next. But let’s not forget Damascus. A smoking ruin it is foretold…and so it will be. Everything must be lined up perfectly. It is one of those thing which simply must be brought into alignment. Ninervah is razed. That was foretold. Mesopotamia ditto. It is all rather formulaic. Each step is being acted out. It doesn’t make sense.? Try uunderstanding the eschatological paradigms currently in play. Try seeing, eyes wide open, how every doomsday cult, whether that cult is Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Han, Korea, Japanese, has been activated. Then tell me fairy tales about me pinning my hopes on theories like “sane actors”.
Generally, in terms of eschatological considerations, I have no problems with your comments. But in specifics, no matter what will happen in the future even if there is no escape from what is fated, the fight for truth and justice and against oppression is encumbered on all right thinking humans. Regardless of the fate of our future, the fight is on, and that is also fate, as in the fight between truth and falsehood, until truth prevails.
Is there injustice in the economy? Is there injustice in the routes of the oil and gas pipelines? Or is there more justice in destruction than there is in building and development for nations and peoples.
Let us learn the truth about the economy less, when at the end of things, the time comes to choose the right side, we make the right decision. And if some of us are purveyors of truth about the economy, then all the more power to them.
Economy is only one aspect of the fight. There are orher aspects. Other truth seekers. My respect to all of you.
You might be right. The impotent are unable to deal with ever-changing reality, luckily they have some old, silly books on the shelf. What to do when you feel thirsty? Oh, look here, page 23, verse 11: drink some water…
At this stage in the game, Israel has become the biggest liability of Zion. Making Jerusalem its capital would only escalate the mafia wars in the house of Zion further and might turn out to be the straw that brakes the camel’s back.
Interesting perspective but one must remember that religious tribes who subscribe to these biblical numbers and dates for wonderful things to happen often forget the numbers sometimes invert and the thing backfires on them. That people that spent 40 yrs in the wilderness found their promised land ended up being conquered by Babylon, Egypt, Rome, Ottoman etc… so the numbers werent predicting what they expected. And regards J 70, the number 7 is a fatal number as most stone masons will know.
And also we must remember what happened in 70AD when Vespasian’s Army sacked Jerusalem. After a titanic battle the rebels fled to Masada and in the end they all perished. The enemy prevailed. What will be the invading army this time and where will the next Masada be ?
New Russia-Kurdish agreement is good for Syria and for Turkey
http://theduran.com/new-russia-kurdish-agreement-good-syria-turkey/
“CONCLUSION:
While Russia is not a Kurdish “ally”, Russia’s rhetorical neutrality in the face of Turkey’s rhetoric on the Kurds and its realism when it comes to handling Kurds may have pacified the extremist elements within Syrian Kurdish groups, set up a road map for satisfying Turkey and Syria’s security fears, and all the while taking advantage of the US exposing its own disloyalty to its most loyal proxies.
Furthermore, as the primary obstacle to a settlement in Syria is now Israeli aggression in south west Syria, it behoves all powers, to consolidate a peace effort in northern Syria, so as to free the Syrian Arab Army to bolster defences near the illegally occupied Golan Heights.
In short, Russia has turned a dirty game into a a compromise in the making, one which doesn’t make grandiose promises, but keeps the promises that are made.”
Putin and Assad can reach a stable peace of they are strong enough leaders. Sovereign Syria can legally keep Iran and their proxies out of the south of the nation. Without head-to-head, mutual provocation and recrimination, both Iran and Israel will have no justification for use of force in Syria.
This will not fix the larger regional issues, but it does keep Syria from being the immediate “Killing Fields” in a conflict that for the most part doesn’t involve them.
Russia gains strategically from this outcome two ways.
-1- It secures their base and operations at Tartus, and keeps it from being compromised due to the actions of a third parties.
-2- Without the need for daily operations, NATO’s internal fault lines will have a chance to surface. Most notably the feud between Germany and Turkey.
There is no feud between Germany and Turkey.
There is however the wish of France & Germany to get rid off of USA troops in Europe.
Hence the provocations towards Turkey to piss Erdogan off and make Turkey leave NATO,
which is basically the end of NATO. Then the EU would make pressure on Americans
to leave the continent.
In other words, Germany doesn’t want to be the guilty party to end NATO but surely
would profit from it because she could get rid of US troops and rule EU on her own.
The feud between Germany and Turkey is a matter of public record. Germany pulled its limited contingent of forces out of Turkey.
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/23261/german-military-leaves-turkey-s-incirlik-airbase
I concur that there are also issues between Germany and the U.S. The current administration has publicly called out deadbeat Germany for under-spending on defense. Certainly, the U.S. will benefit if it no longer has to carry a dysfunctional and militarily impotent Germany.
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Regardless of how you, I, and others, assign different priorities to the myriad internal NATO problems. I think the point I was aiming at holds.
If Russia and Syria create a peace that shuts down daily NATO air operations from Turkey, the currently suppressed divisions within NATO can come bubbling to the surface.
@A123.
A1: “Israel will have no justification for use of force in Syria”. Israel has never had any convincing justification for its continual resort to force in Syria nor anywhere else — including the dispatch of agents to commit assassinations and terrorist atrocities abroad.
A2: “it does keep Syria from being the immediate “Killing Fields” in a conflict that … doesn’t involve them.” For the past 7 years or more the Zionazis of Israel and its ally Saudi Arabia, at the behest of the Anglo-Zio-Capitalists behind NATZO, have turned Syria into ‘the immediate Killing Fields’ in a conflict that involves the very existence of Syria as a democratic and secular socialist country.
A3: “Russia gains strategically from this outcome two ways.” Ah! yet another blogger posting strategic advice for President Putin.
Correction: The Zionazis of Israel with their Islamofascist ally Saudi Arabia …
So how do we tell which missile defence system was used ? Possible? ……..3 out of 6 …..
Choose your partner wisely.
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brilliant…even the brain dead should know by now ,team chaos lost big time, in trying to take down the ‘barrel bomber’.The combined powers of nutyanhoo,ue, uk,gcc and deep state neocon moderate head chopping factions.. lost big time, never mind the sacred books ,game over.Nutyanhoo can use his expensive flying toys but it can’t unseed the ‘barrel bomber’.,Damascus has already been bombed ,get over it ,syrians will never be enslaved,they print their own currency.
This provocation by Israel, bombing a sovereign country without declaration of war, has nothing to do with any possible Iranian “aggression” against Israel, but plenty with geopolitics. ISIS has almost been defeated in Syria, which was not the plan of either Washington or Tel Aviv. Qatar is now directing its attention towards Iran, planing to build a gas pipeline to Iran. Iran wants to join the emerging Eurasian Economic Union, a horror story for Wall Street. Brzezinski himself outlined the importance of Eurasia, and before him the British geographer Halford Mackinder, whose writings Brzezinski picked up. The creation of the Eurasian Economic Union needs to be prevented, which is the reason for the current crisis with North Korea and Iran. Excuses also need to be invented for any overt acts against both Iran and North Korea. As far as I can see, Washington is not too sure what to do, namely whom to attack, Iran or North Korea, as the consequences would be pretty horrendous. On the other hand, Washington cannot back down, because if it does, Russia and China take the lead as far as international economics and politics go, and Wall Street is basically finished. Now I am waiting to see if Washington will accept reality, or do something very foolish, like starting a new war, for which it will receive very little sincere support from the international community, but which could well lead to the break up of both NATO and the EU.
Agreed. Israel and U.S. are out of options, and unless Netanyahu can start a war, the emerging economic block called Eurasia will make Israel and the U.S. irrelevant as well as bankrupt.
Still, there needs to be some kind of forceful response. I’m thinking some way to kick Israel in the balls. Either a legal challenge to Israeli citizens travel in Europe (or wherever) as potential war criminals, or sanctions. Recall how much the Palestinian recognition in the UN and the admittance to the ICJ infuriated Israel? Recall how much BSD damages Israel. I would hope for renewed efforts in these efforts.
The day will come when Syria and Palestine can tell Israel to pay up or cease to have nation privileges, i.e. passports that are recognized. Until then, the program is working. Putin and Assad are in the process of flipping the entire eastern bank of the Euphrates back into the fold.
One other thing. It wouldn’t hurt anybody’s feelings to see expensive Israeli equipment confiscated.
I’m wondering if the coded message sent out via the Canadian media by Canada’s Gen. Vance (perhaps speaking on behalf of a military alliance with Russia) is that “the Middle East’s only democracy” has finally crossed a line, militarily. And it is now going to lose its military capability, exactly as described by Vance in his explanation of consequence management as a form of deterrence. This would explain why Trump is considering the bizarre move of the US embassy to Jerusalem — because the US military would now officially be Israel’s protector, since Israel would have no independent military capability of its own. The reactions of Turkey and Germany to this potential move by Trump gives further support, in my view, to the possibility that some kind of consequences are finally catching up with Israel.
Here’s the interview with Vance:
https://globalnews.ca/news/3892124/general-vance-north-korea-missile-defence-focus/
I’m not seeing any coded message. I think Trump is just keeping his promise to AIPAC and whomever else he has made a deal with.
Bro Nathaniel on Moving embassy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTk7xXMmWWY
These creatures are vile.
Turk-us relations continue to decline due to israel’s trump regime.
Turkey threatens to ax diplomatic ties with Israel if US recognizes Jerusalem as capital
https://www.rt.com/news/411969-erdogan-jerusalem-israel-red-line/
Erdogan: ‘Mr Trump! Jerusalem is a Red Line’, Turkey May Cut Ties With Israel
https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201712051059705968-erdogan-trump-israel-jerusalem-turkey/
Really one of the trump regime’s dumber ideas, and their record so far is mostly dumb ideas.
US and Kurds control a third of Syria and most of the oil as well as most of the Iraq border, it appears. Assad will get a short lived rump state. Putin is busy making deals.