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2019-12-01 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Israel bombs Syria
[AlAhram] Israel bombed nearly two dozen targets in Syria last week that it said were used by mainly Iranian forces.

Israel bombed 20 targets it said were used by Syrian and Iranian forces in Syria around the capital Damascus early on 20 November in response to rocket attacks that had been launched from Syria on Israel the previous day.

One of Israel’s targets was the house of Akram al-Ajouri, a leader of Islamic Jihad

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...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
, with the house in the affluent neighbourhood of al-Amza being destroyed and killing some of al-Ajouri’s companions and a son.

Avichai Adrae, a front man for the Israeli army, said that Israeli planes had bombed dozens of military targets belonging to Iran’s al-Quds Force and the Syrian army inside Syria, including headquarters, weapons depots and military bases.

Syria confirmed the bombings and said they had destroyed homes and killed civilians. It said it would rebuild the destroyed homes and compensate the victims.

Western military reports said that while Israel was carrying out the air strikes in Syria, it jammed signals over Damascus. Although Syria had launched four defensive missiles, these had been blinded by the jamming and had dropped on homes and killed civilians.

According to Israeli media sources, the air raids were not designed to thwart attacks from Iran, but were part of Israel’s attempts to prevent Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
from establishing a military presence on Israel’s border.

Israeli air and missile attacks against Iranian targets in Syria have continued for two years, targeting weapons depots, Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
training camps, military bases of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRG) and other locations where medium-range rockets are allegedly being produced.

Syria has thus become a battleground for a conflict between Iran and Israel that has nothing to do with the Syrian people.

According to unofficial estimates, Israel has launched "hundreds" of air strikes on Syria over the past five years, the majority of which in the last two years. In 2018 alone, Israel attacked military targets in Syria using more than 2,000 bombs. In 2017, the main target of Israel’s attacks was Syrian regime forces that it said were facilitating operations for Hizbullah in south-west Syria and Syrian military facilities that it claimed were developing chemical weapons or medium and long-range rockets.

After 2017, Israel’s main targets became the IRG, the al-Quds Force, Hizbullah, and Syrian military bases supervised by Iranians.

Recurring Israeli air strikes against Syria over the past two years have killed IRG members and forced Qassem Suleimani
, commander of the powerful Iranian al-Quds Force, to change the deployment of Iranian forces in Syria. However,
a hangover is the wrath of grapes...
they have not stopped Iran from pursuing its ambitions to control Syrian territory, especially along the border with Israel.

Israeli Defence Minister Naftali Bennett said a message had been sent to Iran by bombing targets inside Damascus. "Wherever they [the targets] are, Israel will bomb them," he said.

The bombing of military targets in Syria coincided with massive protests in Iraq and Leb, countries where Iran influences political and military decisions, as well as protests in Iran itself against hikes in the price of fuel.

Nizar al-Sahli, a Paleostinian-Syrian researcher, told al-Ahram Weekly that "despite the air raids, there is nothing new in the official news coverage of the Israeli strikes. The Syrian regime destroys schools, hospitals and homes, and Israel destroys and violates whatever is left of national illusory sovereignty to remind Iran and the Arabs that it is the top power in the Middle East."

"This allows the Syrian regime to continue its rhetoric saying it is steadfast in confronting the Israeli occupation as a way of covering up the killing of one million Syrians and destroying three-quarters of the country’s towns and villages. It is political blackmail by the regime, which has not taken any real action in response to hundreds of Israeli air raids."

Israeli officials did not at first comment on the air strikes or take responsibility for them, but over the past two years they have made fiery
...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob...
statements against Iran and Hizbullah that have included Syria if it facilitated Iranian operations close to the Israeli border.

Israel said it was "dealing with security threats from Iran in Syria" and would not allow Suleimani to establish a presence on the border with Israel. Israel is also worried about the increasing number of Hizbullah rockets fired from Syria, saying this was a "red line" it would not allow to be crossed.

Talal Salma, a researcher, told the Weekly that the "Syrians are not to blame for what is happening between Israel and Iran on Syrian territory. They are the victims. Neither Israel nor Iran care about Syrians, and both are looking for confrontations on Syrian territory."

"The Iranian regime is using its militias to oppress and control the Arab region and to prevent the overthrow of authoritarian regimes in Syria, Iraq, Leb and Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
. It believes that if they fall and are replaced by democratic regimes, this will end Iran’s influence in the Arab region. Therefore, Tehran continues to provide what it can to keep them in power," he said.

Some analysts believe that the US has influenced Israel’s escalating stance, especially since it wants to rein in Iran in the Middle East, possibly beginning with Syria. Current US policies are sanctioning Iran as a "rogue state" with a view to "changing its behaviour" in the region. But punishing Iran through Syria harms the Syrian people, while the regimes in Iran and Syria circumvent the US sanctions including by mafia tactics.

Salma said the US "always keeps the door ajar in its relations with Iran in order to bargain under the table when necessary. The US did not prevent Iran from interfering in Syria, and it used it in the balance of power throughout the war since Washington does not want to see any party have an outright victory."

"The US-Israeli escalation is taking place when Iran’s role in Syria seems to be diminishing to be replaced by that of Russia. A few air strikes against Iran in Syria, an intermediary country, are not a harsh or painful punishment except for the people of Syria," he added.
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