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Islamic State fighters spotted near Golan Heights

May 2, 2015 3:49 pm By Robert Spencer

Islamic State southern SyriaThe Islamic State has released a lengthy e-book, Black Flags from Palestine, detailing how it plans to conquer Israel. I discuss it at length in my forthcoming book, The Complete Infidel’s Guide to ISIS. Suffice it to say now that this Islamic State presence near the Golan Heights is a portent of a great deal more, unless the Islamic State is defeated.

“Jihadists at the border: Operatives loyal to ISIS seen near the Golan Heights,” Jerusalem Post, April 30, 2015:

After foreign sources reported on Wednesday that the IDF began to increase its forces in the Golan Heights near the Syrian border, fears were rising on Thursday that Islamic State-linked fighters are nearing the area.

According to the reports, the reinforcements include Merkava tanks and armored personnel carriers. The defense establishment is following reports that one of the anti-Assad rebel groups has sworn allegiance to Islamic State and the same group is behind the “spillover” of mortar fire from the Syrian Golan into Israel in recent days.

The organization in question is Saraya al-Jihad (Jihad Brigades), who not only swore allegiance to Islamic State, but also succeeded in conquering the village of Qahtaniya near the border.

According to reports from Syria, the Sunni jihadist group has succeeded in establishing a base close to the border, just three kilometers from Kibbutz Ein Zivan in the Israeli Golan Heights. The possibility that light weapons fire that hit Israel on Wednesday came from the group’s fighters is being investigated.

Israel is tracking the events beyond the border, but senior IDF officials claim that they have no intention of interfering in fighting between the various rebel groups and Assad’s army. The belief is that no Syrian group or army is currently interested in acting against Israel, however in the defense establishment preparations have been made for the possibility that one of these groups openly turns their military efforts against Israel.

The IDF knows that the point recently conquered by Saraya al-Jihad was formerly in the hands of the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front, whose operatives did not attempt to challenge the IDF. The estimate is that the mortar shells that landed in Israel on Tuesday were part of the Free Syrian Army and Nusra Front’s efforts to reconquer the area….

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  1. Champ says

    May 2, 2015 at 3:56 pm

    Regarding Israel …

    “I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.” — Genesis 12:3

    Question: “Should Christians support the nation of Israel?”

    Answer: Christians should definitely support the nation of Israel.

    Read more: http://www.gotquestions.org/support-Israel.html#ixzz3Z0rq7hCV

  2. Nonblvr says

    May 2, 2015 at 4:27 pm

    I doubt the jeehaddocks can count on Israel cutting & running.

  3. alyn21 says

    May 2, 2015 at 5:08 pm

    So when Israel goes up against isis will Obama start demanding that they show restraint ?

    • Don McKellar says

      May 2, 2015 at 5:16 pm

      Of course.

      Obama is already showing a great deal of restraint in facing these monsters. He will expect even more from Israel.

    • Rob says

      May 2, 2015 at 5:41 pm

      ..and probably add: ‘I think you have a good negotiating partner in the Caliph’

  4. lacey says

    May 2, 2015 at 5:18 pm

    I should be easy to spot isis ,there the ones with jockstraps ,

  5. jewdog says

    May 2, 2015 at 5:24 pm

    If the Obama administration is successful in its efforts to ratify the nuke agreement with Iran, an immediate 50 billion windfall of frozen funds will accrue to that regime. That will enable Iran to better fund the jihad in Syria, Sinai and Lebanon near Israel. That would be catastrophic if it weren’t for the fact that the Sunnis don’t like many of Iran’s proxies, so the actual effect may also involve fanning the flames of the regional Sunni-Shiite regional war. Not that that’s the intent of the nuke agreement, of course.

  6. JamesonRocks says

    May 2, 2015 at 6:18 pm

    God bless the IDF as they encounter the ISIS rat bastards…

  7. Marty says

    May 2, 2015 at 7:35 pm

    We should hope that Isis sociopaths all quickly attain martyrdom and get transportation to paradise. They love death anyway. They’ll be happy to die and the rest of us will be happy to be rid of them. It’s a win/win.

  8. Judi says

    May 3, 2015 at 7:29 am

    If they think that Israel will just capitulate and surrender if Gd forbid they invade, they had better think again.

  9. David says

    May 3, 2015 at 8:29 am

    Israel is so tiny and it’s population so insignificant one wonders how it has survived surrounded by enemies.

    What these jihadists should have realized by now is that Israel is directly protected by God Himself and that is why no force on earth no matter how powerful or rich has been able to wipe Israel of the face of the earth despite threatening and trying multiple schemes to do so.

    This is an excerpt of a letter written to a Jewish Community in the East in 1897 by Abdul-Baha, the Son of Baha’u’llah…… well before the State of Israel existed.

    “Moreover, materially as well (as spiritually), the Israelites will gather in the Holy Land. This is irrefutable prophecy, for the ignominy which Israel has suffered for well-nigh twenty-5 hundred years will now be changed into eternal glory, and in the eyes of all, the Jewish people will become glorified to such an extent as to draw the jealousy of its enemies and the envy of its friends.”

    (According to information received by the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States several years ago this Tablet was revealed by the Master in the year 1897 to a Jewish Community in the Orient: Bahá’í News, No. 250, December 1951, p. 5)

    • ECAW says

      May 3, 2015 at 8:36 am

      What a load of bollocks………..and I mean that in the nicest possible way.

      • Godwin says

        May 4, 2015 at 5:58 am

        The bullock is in your head for u are too muzzy to see the facts.

        Allah said in Koran 10 : 93 that he settled the Israelites in blessed land n provided them with lot of goodies.

        So, the British empire had helped in the formation of Israel with a strong force.
        the USA had provided It with advanced weapon n war planes to beat all Its muzzy enemies all around it.
        And so the Divine arrangement had it that all these muzzy enemies are now fighting n killing each other in the whole of ME, relieving it from any strong enemy attacks.
        It can easily blast off those small bands of fighters like Hamas n Hezabollah into pieces..

        So It will go into eternal glory as predicted.

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