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Israel Lights Up Syria After Iranian Missiles Fired at Israel

Just keeping you appraised of the situation.

In a nut shell, ISIS has been defeated in Syria. Plan B is underway and at the vanguard is Israel striking Syria on a daily basis. In response to ~20 Iranian missiles fired at Israel last night, Israel lit them on fucking fire.

Iran has attacked Israel directly for the first time as it fired a barrage of rockets into the country from Syria early today raising fears of a war.

The attacks, which caused ‘minimal damage’ and no casualties according to Israeli officials, sparked a powerful response from the Israeli military.

The IDF (Israel Defense force) shelled Iranian positions in the Syrian town of Quneitra before launching air strikes on Damascus.

The dramatic escalation in tensions is the first time Iranian troops have directly attacked Israel rather than using proxies such as Hezbollah.

It came as Tehran vented its anger at US President Donald Trump tearing up the Iran nuclear deal a day earlier.

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18 comments

  1. Lyndon Keltner
    Lyndon Keltner

    https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/09/novartis-cooperate-mueller-576806

    Let’s lock some Novartis and AT&T executives up for bribery.

    The GOP has been big on corporate personhood.

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    • ferd

      In response to a Fly post about an extinction level comet barreling toward earth, you’d likely post about some minor C suite infraction …or some racial slight.

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      • Lyndon Keltner
        Lyndon Keltner

        It’s only “some minor C suite infraction” in your Fox universe. It’s a serious felony elsewhere:

        https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chaka-fattah-former-pennsylvania-congressman-10-years-prison-corruption/

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        • infinitezuul

          The subconscious humiliation you suffer on a daily basis is a result of your own inability to objectively look at what is happening from a higher level.

          You are like a little field mouse wading through the grass, completely fixated on every dandelion you find only to notice time and time again that it withers and it’s spores scatter into the wind.

          You never notice that your entire field of play is contained in a much larger environment.

          In short, you are an idiot. I find you amusing.

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          • Lyndon Keltner
            Lyndon Keltner

            I’d feel truly humiliated having to defend the Trump regime (almost always with middle-school level non-sequiturs and ad hominem attacks) on a daily basis like you and the core iBankCoin demo.

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          • infinitezuul

            There is nothing to defend.
            100% promotion.

            My attacks on you were accurate. Do not cry because they came for you. Defend yourself from them, if possible. It is not possible, though. They were far too accurate.

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          • Lyndon Keltner
            Lyndon Keltner

            Cry? FOH.

            My people are replacing you shit tier people every day, every hour, every second.

            I’m all smile. All the time. Cheers, mate.

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  2. ferd

    For the sake of accuracy, your headline should read: “In response to repeated Israeli attacks inside Syria, missiles were fired from Syria into the Syria’s Golan Heights – – which is currently occupied by Israel.”

    What a farce.

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  3. juice

    From “the Art & Zen of warmongering”

    All wars are bankers’ wars, i.e. the Stockholm Peace Research Institute announced that global military spending was $1.4 trillion in 2018, its highest level since the end of the Cold War.

    Wars are not simply begun overnight as it appears, but are carefully planned by the rich and powerful money- and war-mongers and prepared through targeted public relations campaigns across national and international borders by distracting the population from their true intentions by playing up minor conflicts, creating artificial images of enemies and posing as victims of a foreign threat in order to justify their later entry into the war.

    Enter the false flag or covert provocations, i.e. provoking the Japanese to attack as pretext for entering the European theater of WW2, Korean Was provocations, Gulf of Tonkin false flag for ramping up in Vietnam, WMD’s in Iraq, etc etc.

    In the face of these perfidious deceptions, it is of utmost importance to keep pointing out the real causes of the war, to ruthlessly uncover the war-preparing maneuvers of the powerful, and to expose their ideological moves as what they are. A deliberate and master-planned misleading of the international public.

    Since the end of World War II, the US has been ruled by a tiny, almost-omnipotent financial elite that has been sucking the tax-payer dry by blowing smoke up their ass extolling to them the virtues of US exceptionalism, the superiority of their own currency and an unmatched military.

    However, this US superiority is being increasingly challenged by the new superpower China. With the Silk Road, China is currently preparing the biggest economic project of all time, militarily, it has made huge strides, and with its accumulated gold reserves and gradual undermining of the petro-dollar, it will be the only country in the world in the foreseeable future that will be able to reign supreme and thus to break the US position as a global superpower.

    What will the US do in this situation to prevent its own loss of power? Probably what all the threatened powers have done in the past. Start a war that further delays its decline. How could this war look? The most likely is currently a proxy war in alliance with Israel and Saudi Arabia against Iran, the allies of China and Russia in the Middle East.

    Would this war actually benefit the US? A lot. It would boost the arms industry and fuel the financial markets. It would postpone the collapse of the indebted global financial system. It would lead to a further increase in the oil price and make the fracking process highly profitable. It would probably make the US the largest exporter of crude oil and natural gas in the world in a very short time and thus cause considerable difficulties for Russia in particular, which is largely dependent on such exports.

    What is stopping the US from starting such a war? Above all one thing, war fatigue and the resistance within the own population. How could these two obstacles be overcome? Through a simple, historically proven trick. When an ally, for example, Israel, calls for help from the United States and makes their efforts look like assistance to a friend in distress.

    What is the probability that this scenario will happen? To answer this question, take a look at the White House. There, a president under relentless attack from its own deep state has systematically surrounded himself with Wall Street and military officials, and in the last two weeks, with Mike Pompeo as Secretary of Defense and John Bolton as security adviser, two ardent supporters of a war course against Iran.

    If that does not suffice as a warning, recall a slogan used by that president to secure his military support a year and a half ago in the election campaign: “If we already have the best nuclear weapons in the world, why do not we use them? ? “

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    • ferd

      A couple of minor disagreements:
      – “sucking the tax-payer dry” The average American has, thus far, been a beneficiary of people giving us valuable things on credit and in exchange for our fiat petrodollars. It is when we have to pay for what we consume that we’ll feel the affect of being sucked dry.
      – “Would this war actually benefit the US? A lot.” In the short run, the war would have many possibilities as to its effect on Americans …impossible to predict its net effect. But in the long run it would hasten our decline.

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    • numbersgame

      I’m not sure how this would negatively affect Russia. While we could export more oil & gas, their economy is much more dependant on such products, and their citizens less dependant on low gas prices. So rising energy prices (not considering the other factors listed in your post) would benefit Russia much more than the US. In fact, that was the whole reason that Russia was able to re-emerge as a world power after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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  4. bambaclot

    #FREESARC

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  5. numbersgame

    One thing, I’m not sure this will go as planned.

    Any war with Iran will start with the removal of Assad:
    1) As demonstrated, Syria is a much bigger direct threat to Israelies’ safety
    2) Assad has a strong relationship with Iran
    3) There is already a multi-national confrontation within Syria, making military action less contraversial.

    The downsides of this plan are several:
    1) Russia is strongly engaged in Syria, so it woudl be difficult to take out Assad without direct engagment of Russain forces by the US or it’s allies
    2) Turkey – a NATO member, is in favor of keepign Assad in power to hold the Kurds in check.
    3) While cruise missiles are favored by the US public, and military aid is largly distributed without much public observance, takign over Syria will likely require more US troops on the ground, which is heavily unfavored by the US public, and will continue to be so unless foreign countries actually invade a US ally.

    On the other hand, the corporotocracy may not measure “success” in the war with Iran in terms of actually reducing Iran’s influence, so maybe these points are moot.

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