Obama-backed Free Syrian Army forces were among the group seizing this crossing. There is no doubt that the jihadists fighting against the Assad regime in Syria have designs on Israel. After all, the destruction of the Jewish State is a foremost jihad imperative. This new development may make Netanyahu regret that he didn’t follow through on his promise to destroy Hamas entirely, as Israel could soon face a two-front war of greater intensity than it has ever faced before.
“Syrian rebels, al Qaeda-linked militants seize Golan Heights border crossing,” by Ben Wedeman and Michael Pearson, CNN, August 28, 2014 (thanks to Marc):
Majdal Shams, Golan Heights (CNN) — Rebels aided by al Qaeda-linked militants seized control of the only border crossing between Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Wednesday.
The capture of the Quneitra crossing by Syrian rebels, including members of the al Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front, represents a new dynamic in a war long feared not only for its deadly effects inside Syria but for threatening to widen into a destabilizing regional conflict.
The border crossing made headlines earlier this week, when American journalist Peter Theo Curtis was handed over on the Syrian side of the checkpoint by the al-Nusra Front to U.N. peacekeepers.
During the fighting on Wednesday between Syrian forces and rebels, three errant mortar rounds and some small-arms fire crossed into Israeli-controlled territory, IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said.
An Israeli military officer was moderately injured, the IDF said on Twitter, and Israeli forces responded by striking two Syrian military positions.
The Israeli military has closed the area around the border crossing.
An activist in the Golan Heights, Shamil al-Jolani, said the Islamist group Ahrar al-Sham al-Islamiya and other rebel groups, not all of them Islamist, also were involved in the fighting.
Syrian war comes to Israeli borderVideo from the scene showed heavy smoke rising from the Syrian side of the crossing. A journalist working with CNN said that heavy shelling and gunfire erupted earlier from the Syrian side but that the situation had since calmed.
Jolani said some fighters were able to reach the crossing despite bombardment by Syrian warplanes. Because of agreements with Israel, Syrian forces could not bomb the forces at the crossing, he said.
Wednesday’s fighting marks at least the second time rebels have attacked the crossing.
In June 2013, rebels and Syrian forces battled for control of Quneitra. The violence prompted Austrian troops to pull out of a United Nations peacekeeping force in the Golan Heights. Israel sent tanks and troops to the border for a time, as well.
Israel seized control of the Golan Heights during the 1967 Six-Day War, and fought off an attempt by Syria in 1973 to retake the rocky plateau.
In 1981, Israel annexed the Golan Heights. It is considered to be occupied territory by the international community….
The Islamist says
…the destruction of the Jewish State is a foremost jihad imperative….True. Every muslim should have this in mind: IsraHELL has to go where it belongs: HELL.
Now I can trust ISIS that it’s a real Jihad group if it has started to target IsraHELL. Otherwise it’s not easy to know if a group supported by USA Tax payers and Qatar money is a real Jihad group.
RW says
Islamist, Keep dreaming about it. Israel is the Apple of GOD’s eyes and GOD will protect it. All Israel’s enemies will be crushed and sent to hell where they rightfully belong.
Beagle says
Have you looked at a map of the Middle East recently?
What’s your plan for attacking Israel from Raqqah Province, Syria?
Go ahead, bizarro Patton, I’m listening.
Bezelel says
@pisslamist, Do you get some self gratifying lift posting your perverse garbage on this site? If you are male, unless you are a crossdresser, you are already apostate. Your perfect man moHAMed was a crossdresser. It is in the koran. Think about that while you sip on your camel piss. You wave your banner of perversion like it’s some achievement. pisslam is built on one lie on top of another and BTW, moHAMed’s poisoned corpse rotted in the ground with worms crawling through him.
Jay Boo says
@The Islamist
Assuming that you really are a card-carrying and prayer mat addicted Muslim.
You will one day realize that the Islamic desire to destroy Israel has more to do with Muslims wishing to overrun Jerusalem and Bethlehem and Nazareth and other Holy cities in Israel in order to pretend that Islam is really is a religion and not just (a cheap Ponzi scheme that needs constant supply of enemies to hate) and to delay the inevitable knowledge and final realization that Is Islam is rotting from within and Muslims will always turn Muhammad’s violence upon each other the moment they run out of non-Muslims and have to look into the bleak emptiness that is at the rotted core Islam.
Petey says
Blood Moons, Solar Eclipse all on Jewish Holidays! Ezekiel 38! Bring it on, cant wait to see this. The God of Israel is going to punk allah…lol
Imran Husein says
Israel was(is) engaged in a deliberate war of massive destruction in blessed Ramadan (Israel always chooses Ramadan) in order to enrage Muslims to the maximum extent possible. Israel is doing this in order to facilitate the process of getting large numbers of Muslims to join the bogus ISIS Jihad in northern Iraq. How else will Israel be able to convince world opinion that Islam is now reemerging as a threat to all of mankind, and that Israel has to wage a great war to save mankind from the menace of Islam? How else will Israel wage her great war to extend the frontiers of the State to encompass the false Biblical frontiers of the Holy Land? How else will Pax Judaica succeed a Pax Americana which is now in irreversible decline?
Beagle says
I need a mask. The crazy is contagious.
Bezelel says
To Beagle, I refer to them as onion rings, a nice way of calling the a french fried asshole. Please note that for future reference.
Jay Boo says
@Imran Husein
I admire the clever imaginations of Muslims who belong to a ‘religion’ wherein truth and reality about victimhood becomes whatever they wish it to be.
Isn’t it time to wash Islam’s bloodied hands before prayers.
Shahada
“We are being butchered under the banner of no god but Allah”
Jay Boo says
Reference to non-Muslims and non-Sunnis in Northern Iraq
Islam’s meaning of the Shahada
“We are being butchered under the banner of no god but Allah”
If Muslims are not knowledgeable about the true meaning of their Profession of Faith as illustrated by the quote then the oneness of Muhammad’s fraud the Islamic hoax Allah falls all apart.
islamisdeath says
The people who perpetrate the most death and destruction during the ramadan bombathon is muslims. They do this unprovoked.
tpellow says
As Netanyahu correctly said, Hamas and Islamic State both have similar Islamic aims of conquest. And in their military aggression, they are both attacking Israel.
Charli Main says
The Gazan branch of Palliwood productions have probably already started manufacturing videos of Israeli ” atrocities” on the Golan Heights.
All those hysterical women howling and ripping their hair out as spotlessly clean Muslim “victims” are rushed to UN ambulances.
John Haller says
Always the same video of people that love death more than life acting like they never heard the phrase. Meanwhile, poolside in Qatar the HamAss big shots tend to their multi billions of Palestinian people’s money.
Beagle says
I think the scariest thing about the IS is that the main stumbling block to its recruiting even more jihadis is a bizarre conspiracy theory which can be debunked by looking at a map. Luckily, my tipping them using common sense will have no effect.
Rezali Mehil says
Robert Spencer says “There is no doubt that the jihadists fighting against the Assad regime in Syria have designs on Israel. After all, the destruction of the Jewish State is a foremost jihad imperative”.
Did the 1948 Jews know about the gravity of the statements above?…or did they not care…or were they only worried about the Germans?
If they were knowledgeable, the craziest thing for me is that they chose to set up their shiny new state in the middle of “Jihad central”…and pinch Muslim lands in the process…I mean that is a big NO NO.
Muslim lands and Muslim women are off limits to kuffar …it affects the purity of the blood line and effectively what land becomes “holy” and/or wholly Muslim land.
Imagine if you will for example that instead a state in the US was renamed/given to Israel … I mean you took it off the Red Indians…and to boot the US is generous …also they did not have so many peoples then …and finally the Jewish are like the Amish ..they could have got on like a house on fire.
Further, Imagine the situation today ….if that area called Israel …was calkled and given to the Palestinians …and say Montana was Israel.
No Jew in sight of any Arabs in the ME….also a double cordon of the security.. (Israelis and US forces) around Montana …and the Muslims thousands of miles away living happily in Jihad Central….
Looks to me that the US/UN made a huge mistake to me in 1948…they should have taken their Jewish Brethren with them back with them.
More Later….
Rezali
Beagle says
I think you forgot that “Jihad central” had fallen on hard times. It was pretty much all downhill after the Gates of Vienna in 1683. The Middle East was undergoing a more secular period experimenting with Communism, Fascism, ordinary monarchy, and Arab nationalism. Nothing good, but more secular.
Look at pictures of Muslim women from then to now. In the early 1970s Afghani women looked like women instead of ninjas. And then in 1979 the sahwa Islamia ramped up with the Afghan mujahideen (Sunni) and Ayatollah Khomeini (Shia, as you know) taking over Iran.
I would prefer to turn your point on its head and note that everywhere Islam exists it is an illegal occupier of land stolen from its rightful inhabitants. Of course many of those people are gone forever, but nevertheless all land Islam possesses is stolen.
Rezali Mehil says
Beagle – Look at pictures of Muslim women from then to now. In the early 1970s Afghani women looked like women ???
I know …I know …shocking …how quickly they got polluted – highly disappointing to see that they had virtually given up their heritage …goodness only knows how they came back into the fold….but then Allah T’Allah works in mysterious ways.
Beagle – all land Islam possesses is stolen…
You cannot go back in time …what got stolen from whom and when …we were not there ….so no bad assumptions….
women who converted…ask them…will say that they were stolen?…
NO NO NO …because they want to remain in Islam…for the 1st time in their lives …they experienced rights and freedom…
All the business that Muslims opened in the UK and the houses they brought …. the taxis purchased, butcher shops, the clothe shops….the Halal coke, halal finance … surely these are not stolen…surely these are gifts and fruits to enhance English society…?
More Later …
Rezali
Charli Main says
Rezali
I still can´t make up my mind about you.!!!!!
Are you a brilliant piss taker ( English expression, folks) pretending to be a Muslima or are you in fact, a genuine brain dead Muslima. ???
islamisdeath says
Once again the despicable death cult zombie appears with enough BS to fertilize the Gobi desert into bloom. You massacred millions and are hard at it even now. Death, torture, slavery and all that satan loves that is your domain. I have seen so many pictures and videos of you gleefully torturing animals that every time I
see one of you… things on the streets of my city I am overcome with revulsion. Muslims are the living definition of evil. Some times I look at the sweet eyes of my dog I think of one of you minions of satan getting your depraved hands on her and I am enraged! How you enjoy the pain of those least able to defend themselves. Just like your master satan.
Israel and the Jews however save lives through medical break throughs, they create technology that helps everyone and all they want is one tiny sliver of land to live on.
What if Montana were given to the Jews you ask? It would certainly be better than what has happened which is several American and European cities being taken over by your putrid, evil lot. In Israel muslims may live freely, in cities you have taken over in the US and the UK and Europe anyone not muslim is in peril to walk down the street. You RAPE children and believe its an OK thing to do!!!
Do not attempt to take the moral high ground because you haven’t any! You most evil of all that is evil. You raping, torturing, animal abusing agents of satan. Go to hell and join your master!
Bezelel says
Israel has thousands of years of history in the land and are not responsible for pisslamic mythology. The arab hierarchy’s biggest fear of the Jewish state has manifested in the form of the Israeli example of a superior way of life. muslim citizens of Israel have more rights and live better than muslims living under pisslamic rulers.
bernie says
A quote from liberal Muslim reformist Irshad Manji:
“Israel is currently the only country in the Middle East to which Arab Christians are voluntarily migrating. They’re also thriving, earning university degrees at a much higher rate than Arab Muslim citizens of Israel, and even enjoying better overall health than Jews themselves(!)”
Bezelel says
To bernie, Don’t hold your breath waiting for the propagandist rebuttal. Facts make their head hurt.
tpellow says
“Tel Aviv Diary: How Soon Before Islamic State Attacks Israel?”
http://www.newsweek.com/tel-aviv-diary-how-soon-islamic-state-attacks-israel-267113?
mariam rove says
This is actually not too bad. One bullet fired into Israel, here comes the formidable IDF!!!! M