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Israeli Air Force scaling back its strikes in Syria as northern border heats up
2020-08-15
[IsraelTimes] IAF aircraft face increasingly difficult challenges in ’war-between-wars’ against Iran, with more powerful air defenses entering region and actors increasingly willing to use them.

Over the past two years, the Israeli Air Force has destroyed a third of Syria’s advanced air defense systems, according to Israeli military assessments.
The Israeli Air Force has shifted its focus in recent weeks from the so-called "northern arena" of Syria and Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
toward the Gazoo
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