Israeli jets 'strike near Damascus'

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Israeli jets 'strike near Damascus' - Syrian army

(BBC) The Syrian military has accused Israel of carrying out two air strikes on Syria, near the capital Damascus.

Israeli planes bombed the area near Damascus international airport and the town of Dimas, the Syrian army said in a statement carried on state television.

No casualties were reported. There has been no confirmation of the air strikes from Israel.

Israel has conducted several air strikes on Syria since 2011.

"This afternoon, the Israeli enemy targeted two safe areas in Damascus province, namely the Dimas area and the Damascus International Airport," the military statement said.

It described the air strikes as "direct aggression" carried out to help the Syrian government's opponents.

Some installations had been damaged, it added, without elaborating on what had been hit.

Full story: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-30370670


-- BBC 2014-12-08

[Ulysses G.]

They were preventing the Hezbollah terrorists from obtaining weapons. Good strike.

[Seastallion]

So, when is Israel going to re-name their "defence" force to the Israeli Attack Force or the Israeli Aggression Force (IAF)?

[Ulysses G.]

Peace through strength.

[poohy]

Israel lives in a tough neighborhood........However its a Shame its someone else's neighborhood !!

[ezzra]

So, when is Israel going to re-name their "defence" force to the Israeli Attack Force or the Israeli Aggression Force (IAF)?

Let me see now... what will you have done if you knew that your neighbour, who hate your guts

and bent on killing you and your family, is getting a gun from his friend to come around later

and kill you and all you family while you're a sleeping? would you sit idle and do nothing?

run away and hide? of go out and pre-empt this aggression act before it's too late?......

[shirtless]

Lets hope this provocation does not enrage the greater arab world

[Jingthing]

Let me see now... what will you have done if you knew that your neighbour, who hate your guts

and bent on killing you and your family, is getting a gun from his friend to come around later

and kill you and all you family while you're a sleeping? would you sit idle and do nothing?

run away and hide? of go out and pre-empt this aggression act before it's too late?......

But to obsessive Israel demonizers, what's OK for their OWN country, is not OK for the Jew of nations, Israel.

These attacks, not confirmed by Israel but probably real, were about stopping transport of arms from IRAN into LEBANON to forces threatening to Israel. They fit in with established Israeli foreign policy although there have only been limited incidents into Syria.

[ezzra]

Israel lives in a tough neighborhood........However its a Shame its someone else's neighborhood !!

What can you do when the neighbourhood includes Iran, who gladly and freely will arm to the

teeth anyone who will use those weapons against Israel, Syria, Hezbollah, Hamas and number

of other terrorist groups sworn to obliteration of Israel..

put those Iranian in check and many of those groups will just dwindle and die...

[Tongdee]

Lets hope this provocation does not enrage the greater arab world

Any non muslim breathing angers the extremists of that ilk.

[Somtamnication]

Peace through strength.

strength occupation.

[harryfrompattaya]

Lets hope this provocation does not enrage the greater arab world

Do you think it matters they are hated already They can not hate them anymore

It was smart move

[wabothai]

Both sides have equal rights in defence and aggression. Result of which is no solution to the problem.

[dexterm]

So, when is Israel going to re-name their "defence" force to the Israeli Attack Force or the Israeli Aggression Force (IAF)?

Let me see now... what will you have done if you knew that your neighbour, who hate your guts

and bent on killing you and your family, is getting a gun from his friend to come around later

and kill you and all you family while you're a sleeping? would you sit idle and do nothing?

run away and hide? of go out and pre-empt this aggression act before it's too late?......

Perhaps you shouldn't be sleeping in the house stolen from your neighbor in the first place. Israel should give back the Golan Heights to Syria.

Edited December 8, 2014 by dexterm

[up-country_sinclair]

Naked Israeli aggression: same news different day.

[Ulysses G.]

Lets hope this provocation does not enrage the greater arab world

The the Greater Arab World are probably cheering Israel on in the background. More and more their security interests coincide with the Jewish state.

Edited December 8, 2014 by Ulysses G.

[NeverSure]

So, when is Israel going to re-name their "defence" force to the Israeli Attack Force or the Israeli Aggression Force (IAF)?

Let me see now... what will you have done if you knew that your neighbour, who hate your guts

and bent on killing you and your family, is getting a gun from his friend to come around later

and kill you and all you family while you're a sleeping? would you sit idle and do nothing?

run away and hide? of go out and pre-empt this aggression act before it's too late?......

Perhaps you shouldn't be sleeping in the house stolen from your neighbor in the first place. Israel should give back the Golan Heights to Syria.

Why? Israel took it at the close of the Six Day War in 1967 after several countries planned to attack Israel and Israel hit first and hardest. It's a buffer Israel took as spoils of war.

If Syria wants it, it should just waltz on in and take it.

[IMA_FARANG]

They were preventing the Hezbollah terrorists from obtaining weapons. Good strike.

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Either it was:

• If it was the IAF. they did not miss their target ...... despite what the Syrians say.
• If they did miss their targets, as the Syrians claim, it wasn't the IAF.
• My personal guess.....The IAF got intelligence of someone attempting to move Syrian weapons out of Syria.
• The Syrians would never admit that they lost some of the Russian supplied missles.

[Ulysses G.]

If Syria wants it, it should just waltz on in and take it.

If it CAN. Attacking Israel is a little different from barrel bombing your own countrymen.

Edited December 8, 2014 by Ulysses G.

[Chicog]

Lets hope this provocation does not enrage the greater arab world

The the Greater Arab World are probably cheering Israel on in the background. More and more their security interests coincide with the Jewish state.

I think they're far more interested in ISIS than Hezbollah at the moment. But not doubt arming Hezbollah is a condition of Iran's aid to Assad.

[slipperylobster]

Lets hope this provocation does not enrage the greater arab world

Yeah....we all should shut up and hide, for fear of losing the head...while terrorism topples empires.

[Anthony5]

So, when is Israel going to re-name their "defence" force to the Israeli Attack Force or the Israeli Aggression Force (IAF)?

Let me see now... what will you have done if you knew that your neighbour, who hate your guts

and bent on killing you and your family, is getting a gun from his friend to come around later

and kill you and all you family while you're a sleeping? would you sit idle and do nothing?

run away and hide? of go out and pre-empt this aggression act before it's too late?......

I wouldn't make there a living in the first place.

[slipperylobster]

Had to shake the head and wince a few times, reading through this thread.

Do people reallly think, or do they just play "What if..."

Let me see, "What If"...Israel was never created? Would it eventually be created at some point in the future? (The Holy Land). If Israel did not exist, would ISIS never have existed? Would Kuwait never have been Attacked (by Sadam), would Egypt, Libya and Syria be peaceful places where tourists just dine out on figs and nuts, while riding camels? Unfortunately, we don't really know...eh?

[dexterm]

So, when is Israel going to re-name their "defence" force to the Israeli Attack Force or the Israeli Aggression Force (IAF)?

Let me see now... what will you have done if you knew that your neighbour, who hate your guts

and bent on killing you and your family, is getting a gun from his friend to come around later

and kill you and all you family while you're a sleeping? would you sit idle and do nothing?

run away and hide? of go out and pre-empt this aggression act before it's too late?......

Perhaps you shouldn't be sleeping in the house stolen from your neighbor in the first place. Israel should give back the Golan Heights to Syria.

Why? Israel took it at the close of the Six Day War in 1967 after several countries planned to attack Israel and Israel hit first and hardest. It's a buffer Israel took as spoils of war.

There is no such thing as the spoils of war in the 21^st century. We now have the Geneva Convention and international law. Times have moved on from Genghis Khan and Attila the Hun..but apparently not in the minds of Israeli apologists.

Israel obviously prefers land to peace.

Which is why Israel is a pariah state propped up solely by the US veto in UNSC.

Edited December 8, 2014 by dexterm

[Jingthing]

So, when is Israel going to re-name their "defence" force to the Israeli Attack Force or the Israeli Aggression Force (IAF)?

Let me see now... what will you have done if you knew that your neighbour, who hate your guts

and bent on killing you and your family, is getting a gun from his friend to come around later

and kill you and all you family while you're a sleeping? would you sit idle and do nothing?

run away and hide? of go out and pre-empt this aggression act before it's too late?......

and of course I would never ask myself what I had done to make my neighbour want to do that.

That's easy. Being Jewish. The Muslim and/or Arab world simply can't (openly) tolerate a proud strong Jewish state within what they think are their lands. Arabs and Muslims have the highest rates of racial Jew hatred of any demographic on the planet.

[Alwyn]

Israel lives in a tough neighborhood........However its a Shame its someone else's neighborhood !!

Really? Who's neighbourhood do they live in in your little World?

[ggold]

Lets hope this provocation does not enrage the greater arab world

I think you will find the arabs are too busy killing themselves to worry about what is happening in Syria.

[ggold]

So, when is Israel going to re-name their "defence" force to the Israeli Attack Force or the Israeli Aggression Force (IAF)?

Let me see now... what will you have done if you knew that your neighbour, who hate your guts

and bent on killing you and your family, is getting a gun from his friend to come around later

and kill you and all you family while you're a sleeping? would you sit idle and do nothing?

run away and hide? of go out and pre-empt this aggression act before it's too late?......

Perhaps you shouldn't be sleeping in the house stolen from your neighbor in the first place. Israel should give back the Golan Heights to Syria.

Those houses aren't standing any more, they were too flee infested. The Golan Heights are largely unpopulated it is a military buffer zone, and will not be given to the Syrians.

[Jingthing]

I suppose it's better when obsessive "anti-Zionist" types clearly reveal their dark biases rather than put of a front of not having them!

[Ulysses G.]

"Fiction writer"

Indeed and pretty much every post.