Israel is forced to be more vigilant since the Biden Administration took over. Trump kept Iran at bay via sanctions, and he commanded respect, even from enemies.
All this is happening while a so-called nuclear deal is being worked out, one with which Iran has never complied; nor will it ever. The goal of Iran (and its proxies) remains the obliteration of the State of Israel. Ditto for surrounding jihadists, including the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, Hizballah, Fatah, Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
“Israel retaliates after Syrian missile lands near nuclear reactor,” Reuters, April 21, 2021:
A Syrian missile exploded in southern Israel on Thursday, the Israeli military said, in an incident that triggered warning sirens near the secretive Dimona nuclear reactor and an Israeli strike in Syria.
An Israeli military spokesman identified the projectile as an SA-5 surface-to-air missile fired by Syrian forces against Israeli aircraft. He said it overflew its target to reach the Dimona area, 200 km (125 miles) south of the Syrian border.
The missile did not hit the reactor, exploding some 30 km (19 miles) away, the spokesman added.
The sirens that sounded overnight in the Dimona area followed weeks of heightened tension between Israel and Iran, a close ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, amid renewed global negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear programme.
For weeks, Israeli media have said air defences around the Dimona reactor and the Red Sea port of Eilat were being strengthened in anticipation of a possible long-range missile or drone attack by Iranian-backed forces.
In public remarks on Thursday’s incident, Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz said the anti-aircraft missile was fired from Syria during an Israeli strike there against “assets that could be used for a potential attack against Israel”.
Gantz said Israel’s anti-missile systems had attempted to intercept the SA-5 but were unsuccessful.
“In most cases, we achieve other results. This is a slightly more complex case. We will investigate it and move on,” he said. Israeli security sources said the missile exploded in mid-air.
In response, Israel launched further overnight attacks inside Syria, the military spokesman said, targeting several missile batteries, including the one that fired the SA-5.
Syria’s state news agency said the country’s air defence system intercepted Israeli rockets over the suburbs of Damascus “and downed most of them”. Four soldiers were injured and there was some material damage, it said…..
gravenimage says
Israel retaliates after missile fired by Syrian forces targets Israeli aircraft and nuclear reactor
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Good for Israel!
But her being abandoned by the Biden administration is appalling.
william says
Graven
I have absolutely no sympathy for those who fire on Israel, but here we see a classic misleading headline.
Targeted a nuclear reactor? It was fired at an Israel aircraft and landed 30 kms from the reactor. In what possible way can it be claimed that it was targeting the reactor? Get some decent editors Robert
R. Thomasson says
@William. Firing of the missile and the distance it can reach, must light all the red alarm lamps in Israel. It means Israel needs to develop, on a very short term, a new range of weapons systems that are still not known to the world of today. The country needs to bring it’s technological ability at least 3 years ahead. Combating with shit that everyone poses does not give the needed defense. First rule in breaking through, is thinking out of the box.
gravenimage says
This, from the Reuters story:
An Israeli military spokesman identified the projectile as an SA-5 surface-to-air missile fired by Syrian forces against Israeli aircraft. He said it overflew its target to reach the Dimona area, 200 km (125 miles) south of the Syrian border.
The missile did not hit the reactor, exploding some 30 km (19 miles) away, the spokesman added.
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william, the implication that Robert Spencer made this up is quite mistaken.
Sabri S. says
The sooner that racist, zionist abomination of a nazi state is destroyed, the BETTER! Nothing but death and elimination for these zionist occupiers. Send this filth back to Poland, Ukraine and Russia from whence they came. They have no historical ties to the land whatsoever, and are not part of the African, Hebrew, or Mizrahim (native arabs) in the region. The gig and lies have been exposed for some time, and no one with a brain believes the silly lies about the Holohaux. It is pure zionist rubbish. They will not succeed in exterminating the palestinians which they so very much aim to do. Drive the zionist occupiers out from where they drove out you out. They are the synagogue of satan!!! Allah U Akbar now and forever.
gregbeetham says
The native Arab Moon god worshippers of the region should have stayed in Arabia and not invaded ancient Israel then there would be no Arabs in Israel today.
Koosemo says
Projection. That is the speciality of Muslim mass murderers and Satan worshippers. You have been killing Jews and Christians for centuries.
Allah sucks!
R. Thomasson says
@Sabr S. With all respect to what you are trying to say, you are not aware of the lies you smear here. Let start with a simple question: What are you doing, AS A GOOD MUSLIM, to defend Muslim Uyghurs? Answer: not you, not people like you, and not lefty righteous brothers are coming to their aid. I hope your eyes will be opened when you read the next wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide. If all of you see yourselves a the sons of the Muslim Umma, why are you not trying to defend the Uyghurs and the Rohingya of Myanmar? Are they second- or third rate Muslims? And the Palestinians the princes of the Third World? You have one big problem AMIGO! The Polish, Ukrainian- and Russian Jews have an IQ that is, at least, 20 pt. higher than the one of YOUR SORT. This is why they are stronger and better in nearly everything. Even if they are white, they share the same genes with the Mizrahim and Sephardic Jews. Be happy that you share your genes with Africans and Arabs.
Infidel says
Sabri, as Thomasson notes above, the day you people start to confront Beijing about the real persecution of muslims, as opposed to the imaginary persecution of muslims by countries like Israel and India (where muslim populations are increasing), we might start to take your rants more seriously!
john smith says
You have got it all wrong Sabri, it’s your evil god allah who is satan, and you muslims are his pawns.
gravenimage says
Sabri S. has claimed before that Jews are not actually Jewish, since some Ashkenazi Jews lived in northern Europe for a time.
Never mind that Jews have live in the Levant for over 3,000 years. He has made the bizarre claim that all “real” Jews are black–even thought this is not true of any native Levantine peoples.
And the claim that the Mizrahim–Mizrahi Jews–are actually Arab Muslims is especially bizarre.
But his lies have a clear purpose–the idea that if Jews are (somehow) not real Jews, that all Muslims have the right to destroy civilized Israel and committ genocide agains thte Jews.
But of course this genocidal Muslim hatred of Jews dates back to the earliest days of Islam–to the “Prophet” Muhammed himself, who regularly robbed, raped, enslaves, and mass slaughtered Jews.
And–as is common with murderous Muslims–Sabri S. claims that the Holocaust did not happen at one and the same time as threatening to mass murder Jews.
And the local “Palestinian” Muslims have actually grown in population living in civilized Israel–the claim that Israel is “elimiating” them is just calumny.
john smith says
Well said Gravenlmage, once again you have annihilated his post with truth and facts. But I’m afraid he wont see it this way, like most muslims he’s a pathological liar.
Blotus says
Islam commands it’s followers to rape, enslave, and murder all non muslims. It has been this way since it was made up by an illiterate criminal 1400 years ago. You would think after all the death and misery Islam has caused for everyone including Muslims that this would be a universal truth. Sadly we are instructed Islam is a religion of peace. Nothing could be further from the truth and it is the reason there has been non stop war in the middle east for 1400 years.
OLD GUY says
Israel lives and faces the dangers of the muslim/islamic world on a daily basis. While the American politicians can’t see the forest for the trees. Open borders is the invitation to disaster resulting in the death and violence to American citizens at the hands of muslim/islamic migrants.
Part of this problem is that multi national corporations don’t care about America or any other country. Their only concern if PROFIT. Migrants provide them with cheap labor, and if these migrants destroy a countries society and security the Corporate leaders will pick up and move to a more favorable location.
It’s all-out MONEY!
gravenimage says
Actually, mosty Muslims wind up on the dole. The idea that they are a hard working source of labor is in most cases mistaken.