Thursday, September 20, 2018

After Downing Of A Russian Militart Plane, Israel Says It Won’t Stop Syria Strikes

An Israeli Air Force F-35 fighter jet flies during an aerial demonstration at a graduation ceremony for Israeli air force pilots . (photo credit: REUTERS/AMIR COHEN)

Times Of Israel: Blaming Assad for downing Russian plane, Israel says it won’t stop Syria strikes

Defense minister says he understands Moscow’s initial anger at Israel, but maintains that ‘irresponsible’ Syria is at fault

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Thursday blamed “irresponsible and unprofessional” Syrian air defense operators for downing a Russian surveillance plane during an Israeli airstrike on Monday night.

Liberman maintained, during an interview on Army Radio, that despite Russia’s ire over the incident, Israel would continue to operate in Syria in order to fight Iran’s activities in the country.

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WNU Editor: There is nothing much that anyone can do to stop Israel, including Russia .... Analysis Putin Has Little Choice but to Allow Israel to Continue Operating in Syria (Haaretz). More here .... The loss of a Russian plane in Syria reveals how Putin is strangely powerless to protect his own troops (Business Insider).

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

This isn’t that hard to understand. Israel’s survival is at stake as it fights Iran in Syria. Lose and Syria will be Iran’s launching pad for 10’s of thousands of ballistic missiles and hundreds of thousands of troops.

What does Russia have at stake? Just Latakia naval base and there are no threats to it. So Russia stands pat.

Anonymous said...

Canadian contribution to rolling back ISIS = Goose egg.

Canada has too many craven cowards.

Mike Feldhake said...

All true but isn't it interesting how warfare is occurring over Syria? Quite complex relations and goals all intermixed. Unlike anything other than old world Europe I suppose. How tech is changing war.

Hamilcar Barca said...

Not true...what russia can do is to instal some high tech AA system on syrian land !!!