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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hezbollah is now giving orders to Syria’s army – and using it to spy on Israel
2019-06-25
[IsraelTimes] In a reality once unthinkable, Assad’s troops along Golan border are heeding commanders of the Iran-backed terror group, and helping it prepare for conflict with the Jewish state.

Earlier this month, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based watchdog group, reported that Israeli fighter jets struck Hezbollah positions on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights. There was no Israeli comment on the claim.

The report said one of the targets was a post on Tel al-Harra, a mountain that is considered a strategic point that overlooks the Golan Heights, while the other was in Quneitra, near the UN-monitored border crossing with Israel, where Arab media reports a Syrian air-defense position and a Hezbollah intelligence center are located.
Posted by:trailing wife

#6  I do, TW. The archives only recently opened for me. I'm reading Fred's excellent analyses from 2001 on down. It's like a chronicle of all that has happened since to get us where we are.

Seen in this way, following events, organizations, persons of interest, the changing modalities of media and their compulsions... it provides a gestalt of the essential condition of today, especially in parts of the world where things matter significantly enough to affect all the other parts. Stripped of rhetoric and partisan nuance, with irony and the humor that stems from the necessity of our condition dripping from every report - it's journalism pure and simple.

It's amazing what you've done. It's unfortunate that the fashionably 'woke' and obsessively unreasonable progressives will never partake of this and never understand. There was a lot here they could learn.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-06-25 14:56  

#5  Truly, Dron66046. When you have a little time, take a stroll through the archives. There’s a link at the bar across the top of the main page.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-06-25 10:30  

#4  and debased snark
Posted by: Frank G   2019-06-25 10:12  

#3  There's just no other place like it. ☺

An unequaled collection of knowledge, experience, and common sense perspectives.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-06-25 09:09  

#2  re: #1 ^^^ Times 1000 at least.
Posted by: AlanC   2019-06-25 09:02  

#1  I spent hours giggling like a fool just because of that first photo. It is so symbolic and fitting. This collation of related reportage and unfettered writing is what is missing from modern journalism, or a number of problems could be solved. Fred and you are geniuses. I love Rantburg. There's just no other place like it. ☺
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-06-25 03:07  

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