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I was referring to manned aircrafts.
The war on Iran begins in Syria
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I thought I dig up this old thread like @SOHEIL did last month with a few updates.
Seems like US is hedging its bets in Syria and aligning itself with Iran and Russia. Turkey, either due to the recent coup or due to Erdogan's more realistic view of the situation has also stopped supporting the rebels.
Aleppo, the last major rebel stronghold is completely besieged by Syrian forces and will soon be liberated.
Seems like the end of this disaster is near.
Opinion: Is the U.S. giving into Iran on Syria?
By Frida Ghitis
POSTED: 08:46 PM PDT Jul 14, 2016
(CNN) -
Who would have guessed it! One year after the United States and five other world powers signed a nuclear deal with Iran, the United States is bringing its policies into closer alignment with Iran's -- rather than vice versa.
Ahead of the deal, President Barack Obama had mused that perhaps the agreement to lift economic sanctions in exchange for Iran dismantling much of its nuclear program would strengthen the moderates in Tehran. If that had occurred, Iran might have taken a more conciliatory line on a number of global issues. But that has not happened.
In what is the most incandescent of all conflicts in the world today, the raging war in Syria, Washington is the one adjusting its policies in a rather dramatic fashion.
A new U.S.-Russia alliance
On Thursday, Secretary of State John Kerry traveled to Moscow to discuss a new U.S. proposal to work with Russia in the Syrian war.
Let's remember: Russia is a close ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is the closest ally of Iran. In fact, in an interview this week Assad admitted that Russian President Vladimir Putin's intervention last year "tipped the scales" in his favor when he was losing the war.
Assad, whose forces are responsible for the majority of the deaths in a war that has killed nearly half a million people by some counts, is backed by Iran, the world's foremost state sponsor of terrorism, and Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia that operates as an arm of Iran's regime and is designated a terrorist organization by a number of countries, including the United States.
Let's remember also that the American President is on record calling on Assad to step down and declaring that his "days are numbered."
And yet, there goes Kerry to Moscow, with a piece of paper in his briefcase proposing the creation of a "Joint Implementation Group" or JIG, so the two countries can coordinate their military operations in Syria.
We know about the JIG because The Washington Post obtained a copy of the extraordinary document setting out the terms of reference. The terms call for establishing a place of operations near the Jordanian capital where experts from both countries can come together to map out their attacks on ISIS and al-Nusra, the al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria.
If the plan is accepted, Russia and the United States would keep separate operations, but also a JIG, staffed together by intelligence officials, operational commanders, translators and other experts from both countries exchanging intelligence and operational information.
Why the JIG proposal is so surprising
There is much about this that is utterly stunning. First, the Russians had proposed much the same idea a few months ago. After Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said the United States and Russia should work together against al-Nusra and other groups, the U.S. Defense Department spokesman retorted, "We do not collaborate or coordinate with the Russians on any operations in Syria," because Moscow aims to support the Assad regime and the U.S. focuses on defeating ISIS.
Second, the fact that the JIG idea proposed to attack the al-Nusra and not just the Islamic State group, which has until now been the limited target of U.S. Syria efforts, marks a significant shift in U.S. strategy. While the United States views ISIS as a threat to itself and its allies, al-Nusra is fighting Assad. By helping Russia, Iran and Hezbollah attack al-Nusra, the United States is lending a hand to Assad, freeing his forces to attack other anti-regime groups, including those that have worked with and been trained by the United States.
In fact, the JIG plan boosts Russia and Iran's plan to help Assad reconquer the entire Syrian territory. If that plan succeeds, Assad would regain sovereignty over the Kurdish areas recovered at excruciating cost by the Kurdish men and women who fought ISIS in places like Kobane and other Kurdish-majority areas, where they are now trying to establish a modern, egalitarian,democratic and autonomous region.
Highly controversial plan
The JIG document is highly controversial within the U.S. government, so it is hardly surprising that it found its way to the Post.
Professional staff at the Pentagon and the State Department are reportedly livid at this latest turn of events. When Putin deployed his forces into Syria, he claimed they were there to fight ISIS, a mission that enjoys almost unquestioned popular support. But the reality is that most Russian attacks have struck anti-regime forces other than ISIS.
In fact, Russian forces have struck America's moderate allies in recent weeks, one more reason why so many within the U.S. government are complaining about the Obama administration's Syria policy. Only recently, a group of State Department officials used the so-called "dissent channel" to propose a different approach, suggesting the United States target Assad's forces from a distance to avoid U.S. casualties, while pressuring Assad to compromise and agree to a transition out of power.
Instead, the United States appears to be leaning in a direction that can only please Putin, Assad and his Iranian backers. Kerry probably expects that Putin will reciprocate America's flexibility by pushing Assad out of power. After all, the proposed terms of reference mention the "political transition process." We'll see if Putin obliges. Assad says Putin has never suggested that he step down.
Not long ago Kerry warned Assad he had an August deadline for the beginning of a transition away to end his rule. At the time it sounded like a threat of escalation, but now it's unclear that goal remains.
In his final months in office, Obama is trying to advance his Syria policy to a point where his successor -- Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump -- will find it too far advanced to reverse. Both candidates have been critical of Obama's approach. But if Assad has mostly destroyed the opposition and retaken much of the country by the end of Obama's term, the next president will find a done deal in Syria; one where the Syrian people view the United States as a traitor, and where Iran, Russia and Hezbollah are potentially more influential than ever.
One year ago, as the nuclear deal was concluded, the most optimistic observers dared to hope that the vast distance separating Washington and Tehran on the global stage would narrow. But not even the pessimists thought that what would happen is a U.S. realignment of policy along Iranian lines.
http://www.kesq.com/news/opinion-is-the-us-giving-into-iran-on-syria/40718412
Erdogan’s counter-coup weakens the Syrian rebels
Arrests of senior officers and a look inward in Turkey mean setbacks for rebels in Syria
Jul 24th 2016 | GAZIANTEP | Middle East and Africa
SYRIAN rebels looking to the heavens for salvation have grown used to seeing Russian incendiary and Syrian barrel-bombs raining down instead. But at least they could count on succour and sustenance from across the Turkish border. After the aborted coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, that seems in doubt.
The commander of the second army, who is entrusted with securing Turkey’s southern borders, is in prison, says a veteran Turkish commentator. So too are most of the commanders of combat units on Syria’s border. (They are among more than 100 generals and admirals and 9,000 security personnel arrested since the coup attempt.) As Mr Erdogan focuses on the enemy within, he has tried to batten down what hatches he can, periodically closing the Bab al-Hawa border crossing, hitherto the prime supply route to Syria’s Sunni opposition-held territory. “We’re seeing a more inward-looking, introverted posture,” says the commentator. “The military’s ability to project Turkey’s power regionally has been undermined.”
The downturn in Turkey’s relations with America, which harbours Fethullah Gulen, whom Mr Erdogan accuses of masterminding the coup, also fractures the external alliance backing Syria’s rebels. Irked by America’s sanctuary for Mr Gulen, Mr Erdogan temporarily cut electricity to Incirlik, a large air base, interrupting the American-led bombardment of Islamic State. The private American companies based near Turkey’s borders with Syria that are contracted to extend non-lethal support to Syrian rebels wonder whether they too might be swept into the fray. Both Turkey and America, for separate reasons, now appear to be hedging their bets on the war’s outcome. Both are seeking a working relationship with Russia, the prime sponsor of Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president whom the rebels had vowed to overthrow. “We’ve staked everything on changing the regime,” says a glum spokesman of the Free Syrian Army, the umbrella group holding Eastern Aleppo, the largest urban centre still in opposition hands. “Instead everything has changed but the regime.”
Even as international support for the rebels recedes, external support for the regime is strengthening. Russia continues to command the skies, despite pledges to withdraw. Iran and its satellites, which include the southern Lebanese militia, Hizbullah, prop up the regime’s exhausted troops on the ground. Two days after Turkey’s military establishment launched its coup, forces allied to the Syrian government established positions on Castello Road, the last supply road into Eastern Aleppo, imposing a full siege on the opposition enclave. Four more field hospitals and a blood bank were struck from the air on July 23rd. “Where are your red lines, Mr Erdogan?” asks an exiled Syrian politician in Gaziantep, Turkey’s gateway to Syria. “It seems Turkey no longer has a long-term strategy in Syria.”
By contrast, regime forces cheer Turkey’s mayhem. In Damascus soldiers at government checkpoints greeted news of the coup with bursts of celebratory gunfire. In the almost ten months since Russia launched its aerial bombardment in support of Mr Assad, Syrian rebels have lost between half and a third of their territory, says a Syrian opposition official in southern Turkey. South of Damascus Mr Assad’s forces have captured the farmland around Daraya, starving its population and bringing its fighters to the verge of defeat after nearly four years of siege. In Ghouta, another Damascus suburb where rebels are also losing territory, the regime is offering to bus rebels to safety if they surrender. It now appears to be applying the same tactics to eastern Aleppo after a counter-attack, in which some 200 rebels were killed, failed to reopen the road. UN agencies expect some food stocks to begin to run out after a month. The city’s plight, says a Red Cross official, is “devastating and overwhelming”.
Some still hope for a reversal of fortunes. Aleppo’s fighters say they have long anticipated a siege and built up supplies. Aided by Jabhat al-Nusra, an al-Qaeda affiliate, they suggest they could cut the road to regime-held Western Aleppo and impose a siege of their own. (Though the regime-held west hosts the bulk of the city’s remaining 1.4m people, students fleeing Syria’s former economic hub to Turkey say it suffers from collapsed services, and has no running water or electricity.) A few rebels argue that as part of his counter-coup Mr Erdogan might yet project his Sunni triumphalism abroad and come to their rescue. But among exiled leaders in Gaziantep and the Americans co-ordinating their logistical backup, the mood is one of despondency. “It’s game over [for Syria’s rebels] already,” says one.
http://www.economist.com/news/middl...urkey-mean-setbacks-rebels?fsrc=permar|image3
Seems like US is hedging its bets in Syria and aligning itself with Iran and Russia. Turkey, either due to the recent coup or due to Erdogan's more realistic view of the situation has also stopped supporting the rebels.
Aleppo, the last major rebel stronghold is completely besieged by Syrian forces and will soon be liberated.
Seems like the end of this disaster is near.
Opinion: Is the U.S. giving into Iran on Syria?
By Frida Ghitis
POSTED: 08:46 PM PDT Jul 14, 2016
(CNN) -
Who would have guessed it! One year after the United States and five other world powers signed a nuclear deal with Iran, the United States is bringing its policies into closer alignment with Iran's -- rather than vice versa.
Ahead of the deal, President Barack Obama had mused that perhaps the agreement to lift economic sanctions in exchange for Iran dismantling much of its nuclear program would strengthen the moderates in Tehran. If that had occurred, Iran might have taken a more conciliatory line on a number of global issues. But that has not happened.
In what is the most incandescent of all conflicts in the world today, the raging war in Syria, Washington is the one adjusting its policies in a rather dramatic fashion.
A new U.S.-Russia alliance
On Thursday, Secretary of State John Kerry traveled to Moscow to discuss a new U.S. proposal to work with Russia in the Syrian war.
Let's remember: Russia is a close ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who is the closest ally of Iran. In fact, in an interview this week Assad admitted that Russian President Vladimir Putin's intervention last year "tipped the scales" in his favor when he was losing the war.
Assad, whose forces are responsible for the majority of the deaths in a war that has killed nearly half a million people by some counts, is backed by Iran, the world's foremost state sponsor of terrorism, and Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia that operates as an arm of Iran's regime and is designated a terrorist organization by a number of countries, including the United States.
Let's remember also that the American President is on record calling on Assad to step down and declaring that his "days are numbered."
And yet, there goes Kerry to Moscow, with a piece of paper in his briefcase proposing the creation of a "Joint Implementation Group" or JIG, so the two countries can coordinate their military operations in Syria.
We know about the JIG because The Washington Post obtained a copy of the extraordinary document setting out the terms of reference. The terms call for establishing a place of operations near the Jordanian capital where experts from both countries can come together to map out their attacks on ISIS and al-Nusra, the al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria.
If the plan is accepted, Russia and the United States would keep separate operations, but also a JIG, staffed together by intelligence officials, operational commanders, translators and other experts from both countries exchanging intelligence and operational information.
Why the JIG proposal is so surprising
There is much about this that is utterly stunning. First, the Russians had proposed much the same idea a few months ago. After Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said the United States and Russia should work together against al-Nusra and other groups, the U.S. Defense Department spokesman retorted, "We do not collaborate or coordinate with the Russians on any operations in Syria," because Moscow aims to support the Assad regime and the U.S. focuses on defeating ISIS.
Second, the fact that the JIG idea proposed to attack the al-Nusra and not just the Islamic State group, which has until now been the limited target of U.S. Syria efforts, marks a significant shift in U.S. strategy. While the United States views ISIS as a threat to itself and its allies, al-Nusra is fighting Assad. By helping Russia, Iran and Hezbollah attack al-Nusra, the United States is lending a hand to Assad, freeing his forces to attack other anti-regime groups, including those that have worked with and been trained by the United States.
In fact, the JIG plan boosts Russia and Iran's plan to help Assad reconquer the entire Syrian territory. If that plan succeeds, Assad would regain sovereignty over the Kurdish areas recovered at excruciating cost by the Kurdish men and women who fought ISIS in places like Kobane and other Kurdish-majority areas, where they are now trying to establish a modern, egalitarian,democratic and autonomous region.
Highly controversial plan
The JIG document is highly controversial within the U.S. government, so it is hardly surprising that it found its way to the Post.
Professional staff at the Pentagon and the State Department are reportedly livid at this latest turn of events. When Putin deployed his forces into Syria, he claimed they were there to fight ISIS, a mission that enjoys almost unquestioned popular support. But the reality is that most Russian attacks have struck anti-regime forces other than ISIS.
In fact, Russian forces have struck America's moderate allies in recent weeks, one more reason why so many within the U.S. government are complaining about the Obama administration's Syria policy. Only recently, a group of State Department officials used the so-called "dissent channel" to propose a different approach, suggesting the United States target Assad's forces from a distance to avoid U.S. casualties, while pressuring Assad to compromise and agree to a transition out of power.
Instead, the United States appears to be leaning in a direction that can only please Putin, Assad and his Iranian backers. Kerry probably expects that Putin will reciprocate America's flexibility by pushing Assad out of power. After all, the proposed terms of reference mention the "political transition process." We'll see if Putin obliges. Assad says Putin has never suggested that he step down.
Not long ago Kerry warned Assad he had an August deadline for the beginning of a transition away to end his rule. At the time it sounded like a threat of escalation, but now it's unclear that goal remains.
In his final months in office, Obama is trying to advance his Syria policy to a point where his successor -- Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump -- will find it too far advanced to reverse. Both candidates have been critical of Obama's approach. But if Assad has mostly destroyed the opposition and retaken much of the country by the end of Obama's term, the next president will find a done deal in Syria; one where the Syrian people view the United States as a traitor, and where Iran, Russia and Hezbollah are potentially more influential than ever.
One year ago, as the nuclear deal was concluded, the most optimistic observers dared to hope that the vast distance separating Washington and Tehran on the global stage would narrow. But not even the pessimists thought that what would happen is a U.S. realignment of policy along Iranian lines.
http://www.kesq.com/news/opinion-is-the-us-giving-into-iran-on-syria/40718412
Erdogan’s counter-coup weakens the Syrian rebels
Arrests of senior officers and a look inward in Turkey mean setbacks for rebels in Syria
Jul 24th 2016 | GAZIANTEP | Middle East and Africa
SYRIAN rebels looking to the heavens for salvation have grown used to seeing Russian incendiary and Syrian barrel-bombs raining down instead. But at least they could count on succour and sustenance from across the Turkish border. After the aborted coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, that seems in doubt.
The commander of the second army, who is entrusted with securing Turkey’s southern borders, is in prison, says a veteran Turkish commentator. So too are most of the commanders of combat units on Syria’s border. (They are among more than 100 generals and admirals and 9,000 security personnel arrested since the coup attempt.) As Mr Erdogan focuses on the enemy within, he has tried to batten down what hatches he can, periodically closing the Bab al-Hawa border crossing, hitherto the prime supply route to Syria’s Sunni opposition-held territory. “We’re seeing a more inward-looking, introverted posture,” says the commentator. “The military’s ability to project Turkey’s power regionally has been undermined.”
The downturn in Turkey’s relations with America, which harbours Fethullah Gulen, whom Mr Erdogan accuses of masterminding the coup, also fractures the external alliance backing Syria’s rebels. Irked by America’s sanctuary for Mr Gulen, Mr Erdogan temporarily cut electricity to Incirlik, a large air base, interrupting the American-led bombardment of Islamic State. The private American companies based near Turkey’s borders with Syria that are contracted to extend non-lethal support to Syrian rebels wonder whether they too might be swept into the fray. Both Turkey and America, for separate reasons, now appear to be hedging their bets on the war’s outcome. Both are seeking a working relationship with Russia, the prime sponsor of Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president whom the rebels had vowed to overthrow. “We’ve staked everything on changing the regime,” says a glum spokesman of the Free Syrian Army, the umbrella group holding Eastern Aleppo, the largest urban centre still in opposition hands. “Instead everything has changed but the regime.”
Even as international support for the rebels recedes, external support for the regime is strengthening. Russia continues to command the skies, despite pledges to withdraw. Iran and its satellites, which include the southern Lebanese militia, Hizbullah, prop up the regime’s exhausted troops on the ground. Two days after Turkey’s military establishment launched its coup, forces allied to the Syrian government established positions on Castello Road, the last supply road into Eastern Aleppo, imposing a full siege on the opposition enclave. Four more field hospitals and a blood bank were struck from the air on July 23rd. “Where are your red lines, Mr Erdogan?” asks an exiled Syrian politician in Gaziantep, Turkey’s gateway to Syria. “It seems Turkey no longer has a long-term strategy in Syria.”
By contrast, regime forces cheer Turkey’s mayhem. In Damascus soldiers at government checkpoints greeted news of the coup with bursts of celebratory gunfire. In the almost ten months since Russia launched its aerial bombardment in support of Mr Assad, Syrian rebels have lost between half and a third of their territory, says a Syrian opposition official in southern Turkey. South of Damascus Mr Assad’s forces have captured the farmland around Daraya, starving its population and bringing its fighters to the verge of defeat after nearly four years of siege. In Ghouta, another Damascus suburb where rebels are also losing territory, the regime is offering to bus rebels to safety if they surrender. It now appears to be applying the same tactics to eastern Aleppo after a counter-attack, in which some 200 rebels were killed, failed to reopen the road. UN agencies expect some food stocks to begin to run out after a month. The city’s plight, says a Red Cross official, is “devastating and overwhelming”.
Some still hope for a reversal of fortunes. Aleppo’s fighters say they have long anticipated a siege and built up supplies. Aided by Jabhat al-Nusra, an al-Qaeda affiliate, they suggest they could cut the road to regime-held Western Aleppo and impose a siege of their own. (Though the regime-held west hosts the bulk of the city’s remaining 1.4m people, students fleeing Syria’s former economic hub to Turkey say it suffers from collapsed services, and has no running water or electricity.) A few rebels argue that as part of his counter-coup Mr Erdogan might yet project his Sunni triumphalism abroad and come to their rescue. But among exiled leaders in Gaziantep and the Americans co-ordinating their logistical backup, the mood is one of despondency. “It’s game over [for Syria’s rebels] already,” says one.
http://www.economist.com/news/middl...urkey-mean-setbacks-rebels?fsrc=permar|image3
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Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman reiterated Israel’s position that it will “not allow the concentration of Iranian and Hezbollah forces on the Golan Heights” while in Moscow on Wednesday.
Speaking with Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov while in the Russian capital for the International Moscow Security Conference, Liberman expressed Israel’s concern over Iranian activity in Syria, stating that Tehran is using Syrian soil as a base to smuggle arms to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Liberman’s comments about Iran were echoed by Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir who is also in Moscow for the conference, which is being attended by defense ministers of 24 countries, including Iran and Syria and heads of seven international organizations.
Jubeir, who was meeting with Lavrov, stated that Saudi Arabia “would like to put an end to Iran’s involvement in the region.”
“We believe that they have no place in Syria or in any other part of the world. These groups influence the situations in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, the Gulf countries, Yemen. Hezbollah is carrying out its operations in various Middle East regions and follows Iran’s agenda,” Jubeir said.
Responding to Jubeir’s comments, Lavov stated that Iranian forces and Hezbollah are in Syria at the request of Damascus and reiterated Russia’s position on Hezbollah.
“We don’t see Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. We believe that both of them [Iran and Hezbollah] – like Russia’s Air Forces – came to Syria following the request of the legitimate government,” Lavrov said.
Israeli officials have warned several times of the Iranian presence on the northern border, including in March when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Moscow meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Following the meeting Netanyahu released a statement saying that “I made it clear that regarding Syria, while Israel is not opposed that there should be an agreement there, we strongly oppose the possibility that Iran and its proxies will be left with a military presence in Syria under such an agreement.”
Russia intervened in Syria on the side of President Bashar al-Assad in September 2015, but as an ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Moscow finds itself part of an alliance between Damascus and Tehran.
With Israel admitting to carrying out airstrikes against weapon convoys heading to Hezbollah, including overnight Thursday against Damascus International Airport, Moscow and Jerusalem have implemented a system over Syria to coordinate their actions in order to avoid accidental clashes.
On Wednesday Liberman said that "to date, there have been nine meetings between representatives of the IDF and representatives of the Russian army. This mechanism has proven itself to be an effective mechanism that prevents unnecessary friction. "
Liberman also addressed the growing humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip saying that “Hamas collects taxes from Gaza Strip residents, but instead of using it for the welfare of the residents and improving the living conditions in the Strip, it invests them in manufacturing rockets and digging tunnels,” he said.
“The problem is not between Israel and the Palestinians, but rather an internal conflict among Palestinians, inside Fatah, between Hamas and Fatah and really, between Ramallah and Gaza,” Liberman added.
Gaza’s sole functioning power plant shutdown last week after fuel supplied by Qatar and Turkey ran out, reducing power supply to 1.9 million residents of the Strip to just six hours of electricity followed by 12 hour blackouts. The supply of fuel for the Strip has been a source of dispute between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas since the group took control of the Strip in a bloody coup in 2007.
http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-C...s-of-Iranian-presence-in-Golan-Heights-489105
Speaking with Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov while in the Russian capital for the International Moscow Security Conference, Liberman expressed Israel’s concern over Iranian activity in Syria, stating that Tehran is using Syrian soil as a base to smuggle arms to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Liberman’s comments about Iran were echoed by Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir who is also in Moscow for the conference, which is being attended by defense ministers of 24 countries, including Iran and Syria and heads of seven international organizations.
Jubeir, who was meeting with Lavrov, stated that Saudi Arabia “would like to put an end to Iran’s involvement in the region.”
“We believe that they have no place in Syria or in any other part of the world. These groups influence the situations in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, the Gulf countries, Yemen. Hezbollah is carrying out its operations in various Middle East regions and follows Iran’s agenda,” Jubeir said.
Responding to Jubeir’s comments, Lavov stated that Iranian forces and Hezbollah are in Syria at the request of Damascus and reiterated Russia’s position on Hezbollah.
“We don’t see Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. We believe that both of them [Iran and Hezbollah] – like Russia’s Air Forces – came to Syria following the request of the legitimate government,” Lavrov said.
Israeli officials have warned several times of the Iranian presence on the northern border, including in March when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Moscow meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Following the meeting Netanyahu released a statement saying that “I made it clear that regarding Syria, while Israel is not opposed that there should be an agreement there, we strongly oppose the possibility that Iran and its proxies will be left with a military presence in Syria under such an agreement.”
Russia intervened in Syria on the side of President Bashar al-Assad in September 2015, but as an ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Moscow finds itself part of an alliance between Damascus and Tehran.
With Israel admitting to carrying out airstrikes against weapon convoys heading to Hezbollah, including overnight Thursday against Damascus International Airport, Moscow and Jerusalem have implemented a system over Syria to coordinate their actions in order to avoid accidental clashes.
On Wednesday Liberman said that "to date, there have been nine meetings between representatives of the IDF and representatives of the Russian army. This mechanism has proven itself to be an effective mechanism that prevents unnecessary friction. "
Liberman also addressed the growing humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip saying that “Hamas collects taxes from Gaza Strip residents, but instead of using it for the welfare of the residents and improving the living conditions in the Strip, it invests them in manufacturing rockets and digging tunnels,” he said.
“The problem is not between Israel and the Palestinians, but rather an internal conflict among Palestinians, inside Fatah, between Hamas and Fatah and really, between Ramallah and Gaza,” Liberman added.
Gaza’s sole functioning power plant shutdown last week after fuel supplied by Qatar and Turkey ran out, reducing power supply to 1.9 million residents of the Strip to just six hours of electricity followed by 12 hour blackouts. The supply of fuel for the Strip has been a source of dispute between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas since the group took control of the Strip in a bloody coup in 2007.
http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-C...s-of-Iranian-presence-in-Golan-Heights-489105
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it's not just Saudi arabiab but also Jordan, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain. this is why having a puppet dictatorship is so crucial for Americans. that's how they control the Muslim world.
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Lol. And what of bloody Zionist presence. If Irani presence is threat to israel,l then i amm all up for Iranis
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They cannot control the Muslim world they just control the Muslim leaders. Muslim world is fighting them.
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They control the Muslim world through their media, and their puppet dictators make sure there is no other voice.
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Don't worry if they control us we can also control them, Thanks to the good hackers and Wikileaks.
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what is israeli concern regarding Golan Heights?
what is israeli concern regarding Golan Heights?
Hey shahbaz baig,
Hoe gaat het man? Waar woon je?
Hoe gaat het man? Waar woon je?
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Concern? Please clarify.
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