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Iranian TV reported that official sources in Syria are denying the CNN report from Friday, that the IAF last weekend bombed Latakia harbor in Syria. Friday's CNN report cited three unnamed U.S. officials who said that the blasts that took place at the critical Syrian port of Latakia were the result of airstrikes by Israeli […]
Hezbollah is not just a threat to Israel from Lebanon. It is spying on the Golan Heights, which Nasrallah threatened to turn into a new front. The IDF is forming a new division in the Golan.
Syrian rebels have implicitly fingered Israel for the bombing of Russian-made Yakhont anti-ship missiles near the Syrian port of Latakia last week, a bombing that the Assad regime has blamed on a group linked with Al Qaeda terrorists. It was not the FSA [Free Syrian Army] that targeted this," the rebels’ army spokesman Qassem Saadeddine […]
Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, who doubles as the government "Minister for the Peace Process,” traveled to Russia on Tuesday to talk with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, reportedly over Moscow’s declared intentions to follow through with the sale of S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to the Syrian regime. Her spokeswoman denied that the purpose of the visit was […]
Violence in Syria and Egypt made people forget Lebanon is a tinder box. It blew up – again – on Tuesday. A bomb blast in Beirut wounded dozens of people. Israel, naturally, is blamed.
It is forbidden to travel to enemy states, such as Syria. That was enough to jail an Israeli Arab, who was spared a heavier sentence because there is no law against fighting with Syrian rebels.
The Syrian National Coalition, the main opposition organization fighting against the government in Syria, elected Ahmad Jarba as president following a run-off vote held in Istanbul on Saturday, Xinhua reported. A senior SNC official Adib Shishakly told Reuters, “A change was needed,” adding, “the old leadership of the coalition had failed to offer the Syrian […]
Globe-trotting U.S. Secretary of State John Kelly has left India for Saudi Arabia and Kuwait before flying to Jordan and Israel later this week to tackle the issue of Palestinian Authority demands. The Saudi kingdom is a powerful ally of the United States and is solidly behind the rebels in the Syrian civil war. Kerry […]
By JTA
Druze leaders living on the Israeli Golan Heights asked Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to allow Druze from 20 families in Syria to enter Israel. The Druze living in Syria had left the Golan as students, many marrying and starting families, but the request could expand to include family members of the Golan Druze stuck in […]
An IDF medical team sent a 13 year old Syrian girl to the Western Galilee Hospital in Nahariya (northern Israel) for treatment. She suffered serious facial and body injuries, according to a report in Walla. The girl had an fracture in her leg that required surgery, as well as shrapnel damage to her face that […]
Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Lebanon said the kingdom plans to deport Lebanese citizens who back the Hezbollah terrorist organization, the latest sign of Saudi concern over Hezbollah’s direct military offensive with the army of Syrian President Bassar al-Assad. Saudi Arabia air ruled by Sunni Muslims, and most of the Sunnis in Syria are part of […]
Syrian rebels for the first time have accused Hezbollah of using chemical weapons in battles with the Syrian opposition forces. According to the Rebel sources, the forces of Syrian President Assad and Hezbollah used poison gas during the Thursday morning shelling of Zamlika, near Damascus. The head of the UN team examining reports on the […]
Obama wants to arm Syrian rebels. Saudi Arabia is giving them anti-aircraft missiles. And Al Qaeda has a how-to manual use them. Then it can do what Israel feared Assad would do – down an Israeli plane.
The IDF is refusing to comment on a report on a Syrian television channel associated with the rebels, according to which Israel attacked the Al Maza airport west of Damascus. The IDF Spokesperson's office says they never comment on this kind of reports. The Suria Mubasher TV channel said Israel bombed advanced weapons and Radar […]
Egyptian’s Muslim Brotherhood President Mohammed Morsi announced Saturday he will cut diplomatic ties with the regime of Bashar Assad and close Cairo’s embassy in Damascus. He also demanded that Hezbollah leave Syria adding, “There is no business or place for Hezbollah in Syria.” Morsi spoke at a rally organized by hardline Islamists, whose clerics told […]
Iran and the US don’t have to go to war. They already are there. Obama arms Sunni rebels. Iran sends Hezbollah Shi’ites to help Assad. And Israel prays it won’t get the dirty end of the stick.
Obama jumps off the fence and will arm rebels. Military planners proposed a limited no-fly zone in Syria to help arm rebels. The US charges that Assad has killed more than 100 with chemical weapons.
After their abject defeat on the hands of the Syrian army and the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah in the central strategic city of al-Qussair near the Lebanese border, the radical Sunni rebels on Wednesday stormed a Shiite village in eastern Syria, killing 60 villagers and burning out their homes, Xinhua reports. Radical Sunni Muslim rebels […]
US policy in the Middle East never has been brilliants, but deciding on whether to arm Syrian rebels means either backing Al Qaeda and the rebels or letting Hezbollah move into the regime.
The Assad regime escalated the spillover of the civil war Wednesday with a helicopter-mounted missile attack on a Sunni Muslim Lebanese urban center, wounding at least two people, including a schoolteacher. It was the first time Syrian forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad have attacked a Lebanese city, having limited previous attacks to villages […]
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There is a “real possibility” that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “could survive Syria’s civil war and even prevail in it” against the rebels trying to topple him, Israeli International Relations and Strategic Affairs Minister Dr. Yuval Steinitz told a group of foreign journalists in Jerusalem on Monday.
Common enemies, Iran and Syria, have brought Israel and Turkey together. The Mossad chief reportedly flew to Ankara for a pow-wow Turkish intelligence. Is Assad linked to Turkish protests?
Gulf Arab states on Monday threatened sanctions against the Lebanese Shi'ite terrorist group Hezbollah in retaliation for its intervention in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Reuters reported. The six Sunni-led members of the Gulf Cooperation Council issued a similar statement, according to the GCC secretariat, as reported by the Saudi Press Agency: "The GCC […]
A double suicide bombing in the center of Damascus morning killed at least two people and injured two dozen others, according to a regime-operated television station. The reported attacks coincide with what appears to be the upper hand that Hezbollah has given forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad. They are prep raring to recapture […]
The rebels took Alepo in July, 2012, and since then this major industrial center had been bombarded regularly by Army forces.
Erdogan is sounding more like Assad and Mubarak every day. Protesters were vandals,. Now they are terrorists. He is making every mistake possible, fueling the protest movement by insulting it.
"The Government of Israel Liaison Officer informed UNDOF that the IDF had provided emergency medical treatment to a total of 16 armed members of the opposition."
By Shalom Bear
Once again the UN has failed at peacekeeping. Israel is now concerned it will be dragged into war with Syria if the buffer zone falls..
President Bashar al-Assad's Syrian army has recaptured the Golan Heights crossing—the only crossing on the ceasefire border with Israel—in a setback for rebels, only one day after rebel forces had been forced out of the strategic town of Qusayr, AFP reports. The capture of the town Qusayr, after weeks of bloody battles, leaves President Assad […]
The Syrian side of the border crossing near the Syrian town of Quneitra has been captured by the rebels after heavy fighting Thursday. Quneitra is the only border crossing between Israel and Syria, and this is the first time it has been captured by the rebels since the fighting began in early 2011. The IDF […]
Turkey is burning. Nine days of riots. Three dead. Erdogan’s police arrest society’s enemy – Twitters. Now, a Turkish doctor charges police are using Condoleezza Rice gas, a chemical agent.
News from Russia: Putin says he has not yet shipped any S-300 anti-aircraft missiles to Syria. Even bigger news: Putin is telling the truth for once.
Syria returns the favor, in light of the escalating violence in Turkey.
You find the rats when the ship sinks. The Iranian dictatorship used to love the Hamas dictatorship until Hamas opposed the Assad dictatorship. Hamas asks, “How could Ahmadinejad support a dictator?”
When the going gets tough, Arab leaders routinely huff and puff at Israel. On cue, Assad threatens to open military front against Israel.
Everyone is going nuts over Assad’s statement that he already has received Russia’s sophisticated S-300 anti-aircraft missiles. But when did Assad ever tell the truth?
JERUSALEM – Sirens wailed across Israel on Monday, as the country’s Home Front Command began testing a new nationwide alert system as a measure to warn the citizenry of what to do in the event of an impending missile attack. Conventional methods, as well as smartphone and social media applications, were used in the test.
The West has played one too many games in the Syria disaster. After it lifts the arms embargo to rebels, Russia says it will arm Assad with game-changing missiles. For Israel, it is not a game.
In an interview on Tuesday, Salim Idris, the head of the Syrian rebel army, called on Lebanon's president Michel Suleiman, the Arab League, and the UN to remove Hezbollah from Syria within 24 hours. Idris threatened that if Hezbollah is not gone within 24 hours, their men would be hunted down wherever they are. Idris […]
Israel could not ask for a friendlier Foreign Relations panel chairman than NJ Sen. Menendez. He used the left-wing Haaretz to state the US needs to intervene in Syria. Faint hopes for ”peace process.”
Sen. John McCain Monday slipped into Syria from Turkey Monday and met with Syrian rebel leaders, who appealed for direct U.S. military aid, the Daily Beast reported. Sen. McCain has been outspoken in his harsh criticism of the Obama administration for not having helped the rebels long ago to topple the regime of Syrian President […]
An unstable enemy country is often worse than a known foe. Syrian rebel rocket attacks on Hezbollah areas in Beirut leave Israel with a powder keg from the Golan Heights to the Mediterranean Sea.
Observers of the world body in Geneva said the annual hypocrisy reached a new low this year.
The annual Home Front Drill is quite routine. This year there are more reasons for Israelis to take it more seriously, such as Assad, Hezbollah and chemical weapons, for starters. Hope for the best.
Israeli soldiers returned fire on Syrian territory after another incident of gunfire on a military area in the Golan Heights Monday night. No one was injured, and there was no damage to property. Military spokesmen said that the soldiers' fire on the source of the attack" hit the target," but they did not provide any […]
By JTA
CIA director John Brennan made an unannounced visit to Israel to discuss the situation in Syria with Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Friday. They reportedly compared intelligence assessments on Syria and its two-year civil war and talked about Israel’s intent to continue striking shipments of advanced weapons destined for Hezbollah from Iran via Syria. […]
The first anti-aircraft missiles may be delivered to Syria within 2 months.
Gaza and Syrian Arabs on Wednesday marked Nakba Day, the English date of the re-establishment of the State of Israel on May 15, 1948, with a Kassam rocket attack on the Negev and two mortar shells on the Golan Heights. The mortar shells may have been unintentionally fallen on the Israeli side of the border […]
Human Rights Watch recommends that any party with the power to do so should do all it can to keep weapons from reaching the brigade.
"Our policy is not aimed at regime change, but rather at changing the regime’s behavior."
By Alex Traiman
The recent Israeli air strikes on Syria – which have neither been confirmed nor denied by Israeli officials – targeted weapons depots allegedly storing Iranian-made weapons intended for the Lebanese terrorist organization Hizbullah.
The Red Cross, the folks who demand Israel allow jail visits by terrorists’ families but winked when Hamas held Shalit as hostage, honors Palestinian Authority “prisoners” – the ones who kill Jews.
Hezbollah supreme leader Hassan Nasrallah boasted on Thursday that the Syrian regime will ship to the terrorist organization “game-changing” weapons, a week after Israel bombed Iranian missiles that were sent to Syria for delivery to Hezbollah. Nasrallah's rhetoric came a day after Syrian President Bashar Assad’ bravado that he will strike Israel but only when […]
By Ben Sales
TEL AVIV – Twice in three days, Israeli warplanes entered Syrian airspace and fired on suspected weapons caches bound for Hizbullah – and, so far at least, nothing has happened in response.
Syrian Rebels are holding four UN peacekeepers prisoner. The four Filipino peacekeepers were on the Golan Heights to monitor the ceasefire line between Syria and Israel. The Rebels claim they are holding them, to keep them safe.
The heinous crime that put “Prisoner X” Ben Zygier in an Israel jail where he killed himself was not known until today: He butchered a secret Mossad operation to bring home the remains of 3 soldiers.
Syria aims missiles at Israel. Lebanon on alert. Israel moves Iron Domes to the north. War? If war were likely, Bibi would not be in China. The IDF already has re-opened air space in the north.
Bombing Syria’s chemical weapons would cause a humanitarian disaster. No one wants to hit Assad and end up with Al Qaeda. There’s no diplomatic way out without Russia, an expert tells the Jewish Press.
Syria and Israel stepped closer to getting ready for war Sunday, with Syrian missiles reportedly deployed and aimed at Israel, which has closed off air space in the north to civilian air traffic. Arkia airlines told Channel 2 television that "due to IDF instructions on the closure of airspace in the North until May 9, […]
The Iranian propaganda machine is working overtime Sunday, claiming that Israel used depleted uranium in its missile attacks on Syria early this weekend. “The first missile…contained uranium substances, a correspondent of the Russian TV quoted some local sources as saying,” the Iranian regime-controlled Fars News Agency reported. “Other media outlets had also earlier released similar […]
One basic difference between Israel and Arab nations: The Jews warn and warn and warn and finally strike when there is not choice. Arabs attack and attack until there is not choice but to warn.
the global jihadi masterminds learned from the mistakes of the past, and the new style of operation, particularly for those in the non-Muslim arena, is going to be small cells, few connections, low cost munitions and high density, high profile crowds. "It's the al Suri Strategy come home to roost," Lacey told The Jewish Press.
Syrian President Bashar Assad visited a Damascus power station on May Day Wednesday in a rare public appearance, according to the regime’s television station. The television station showed Assad speaking to workers and shaking their hands, He has tried to show Syrians that all is “business as usual” despite the bloody civil war and charges […]
JERUSALEM – With strong evidence that Syrian forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad have used chemical weapons against civilians, Israeli and Western military commanders are contemplating a series of air strikes and commando operations against a select group of targets inside Syria.
Obama gets ready to strike Assad. Hezbollah drags Lebanon into the war. And guess who is the most likely victim? Israel. That’s why the IDF called up 2,000 reservists for a surprise drill in the north.
The US is preparing for an attack on Syria but Obama won’t give the order to “fire” until he is sure he has enough proof that Assad is using chemical weapons.
President Barack Obama has scheduled a press conference for 10:15 a.m. (EDT) Tuesday, and he is all but certain to face questions regarding American intentions concerning the use of chemical weapons in Syria and the continuing revelations of faulty intelligence on the Boston Marathon terrorists. Gun control and spending cuts also may be on the […]
Rebels, termed “terrorists” by the Assad regime, killed six people in a car bomb explosion in Damascus that failed to claim the life of its main target, Prime Minister Wael al-Halaqi. Official state media broadcast the report of the car bomb, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed it. The apparent suicide attack was […]
There were many reports that Israeli jets flew over Syrian President's palace on Saturday, but did they also bomb a chemical weapons site nearby?
France and Britain have said it. Israel said it categorically. Assad used chemical weapons, the red line for Obama to intervene in Syria. Now the US figures out it’s true – but just a bit. So let’s wait.
Hizbullah is playing games again – war games. It is dragging Lebanon into the Syrian war by fighting rebels. Today, the Air Force downed a drone flying towards Israel, presumably sent by Hizbullah.
Obama has said he would use force in Syria if it used chemical weapons. No wonder Kerry denies Israeli intel that Assad used nerve gas. And didn’t the US once reject Israel’s info on Iran’s nuke work?
Jordan is jittery as Syrian chaos and bloodshed goes from worst to worst. Abdullah had no choice but to ditch hopes for Assad and let Israel use its air space to attack Syria with drones, if need be.
Blood poured like water in Syria on Sunday. Rebels claimed nearly 100 fighters were massacred. Assad’s regime in effect confirmed the report and said it “inflicted heavy losses upon terrorists.”
"Indefensible for Syrian regime to stand as judge of other countries."
Nearly 1.5 million Arabs are Israelis. Most are decent citizens, even if not Zionists. But more and more want to destroy Israel. For the first time, an Israeli Arab allegedly joined Syrian jihadists.
"Don't be angry, I touch and kiss you because I feel comfortable with you."
Middle East power vacuums are fuel for war. A withdrawal of Assad’s army from across the Golan Heights, and fierce clashes between Hizbullah and Syrian rebels, threaten Israel on both northern fronts.
Fierce clashes have broken out between Hizbullah’s terrorist army and Syrian rebels, increasing the threat that the civil war will spread as far south as Israel's border with Lebanon, where the fragile government fell last week. Syrian opposition sources told the London-based Arabic language Al Asharq Awsat that Hizbullah suffered heavy casualties and that dozens […]
One of the big winners in the war in Syria could be Hamas, at the expense of Abbas. Hamas not only is fighting with rebels but also is reportedly building smuggling tunnels for an attack on Damascus.
Erdogan hopes to persuade Obama to take bigger role in ending Syrian violence
The US State. Dept. has scored another colossal failure in the Middle East. It pressured rebels to from a shadow government despite warnings it would not work. but it did work – for a week. Game over.
Four wounded Syrians arrived at the Israeli-Syrian border Tuesday and received medical treatment on site from Israeli soldiers, the IDF website reported. Two of the casualties were treated adjacent to the border fence and were returned to Syria afterwards. Due to the severity of their injuries, two of the Syrians were transferred to Israeli hospitals […]
The chairman of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee said on Tuesday that there is a “high probability to believe that chemical weapons were used: in the Syrian civil war." “We need that final verification, but given everything we know over the last year and a half, I would come to the conclusion that they are […]
Syrian rebels have narrowly elected a Syrian with American citizenship as their interim leader, opponents say the move is ridiculous because of their lack of solid control of rebels over parts of Syria. The rebel’s leader is Ghassan Hitto, 50, an information technology executive who lived in Texas until recently, The New York Times reported. […]
The Syrian army staged a rare bombing attack on Lebanon, near the border with Syria, Monday in an apparent attempt to strike at a weapons smuggling route used by rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar Assad. Four rockets hit the eastern town of Arsal in the second aerial attack inside Lebanon since the uprising against Assad, […]
According to at least one news source, Harroun has pledged to fight with Arab Palestinian forces against the Jewish State.
Israel already has bombed at least once a Syrian attempt to ship anti-aircraft missiles to Hizbullah. Israel will use Obama’s visit to ask United States to do the work the next time, or at least back an Israeli strike.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Should Tehran acquire nuclear capabilities, others would follow and the Middle East—at the very doorstep of Europe—would enter this new regional nuclear race.”
There will be five other resolutions targeting Israel, and about the same number combined covering the rest of the world.
A European Union policy officer whose group was giving humanitarian aid to victims of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s suppression of rebels was killed by an army missile near Damascus on Tuesday. EU policy chief Catherine Ashton said in a statement, "I have learned today with great sadness of the tragic death on 12 March of […]
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Israel is utilizing new media technology to developing innovative ways to extend hands of friendship to countries in a volatile Middle East. “We are exploring government, people and societies … trying to skip over the borders and using the new media to create virtual embassies," which speak directly to those in the Arab world, said […]
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Thursday the timing of freeing the 21 United Nations observers kidnapped Wednesday by Syrian rebels depends on guaranteeing the observers’' safe passage to their base and negotiating a withdrawal from the area of soldiers loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad. The Syrian Free Army disassociated itself from the […]
Syrian “Martyrs of Yarmouk” rebels kidnapped 20 UN observers stationed on the Golan Heights. The IDF on high alert and reinforces the fence as civil war reaches the border.
Syrian President Bashar Assad told the London Sunday Times that Britain is funding terrorists, an accusation he formerly has reserved for Israel and the United States. Assad’s agreement to be interviewed despite his ban on foreign journalists in the country may show how paranoid he really is. Described last year by Pulitzer Prize-winner journalist Joel […]
Syria sent a letter to the United Nations Security Council and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Thursday protesting the granting of a license to explore for oil and gas in the Golan Heights. It called the government approval a “blatant violation” of what it considers its sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which Israel annexed […]
What does the State Dept. say when a US-based company, one of whose shareholders is former VP Cheney, explores for oil in the Golan Heights? It says, “Uh, y’know what? that’s a good question.”
Stray fire from the Syrian civil war sent a Syrian army tank shell on a northern Golan Heights community Wednesday after three months of quiet. No one was injured, and there was no property damage, and army sappers naturalized the shell. Similar to the mortar shells that exploded in the Golan Heights last November, there […]
The missing United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) legal adviser Carl Campeau, who was reported to be kidnapped, is a Canadian, according to sources quoted by the Times of Israel. He originally was thought to be from Austria and reportedly was kidnapped nearly three weeks ago from an outpost near the Golan Heights border. […]
The report has not been verified, and there are no details concerning who kidnapped the victim, Carl Kampo from Austria.
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