Zionist General Yoel Strick says Israel has the full arsenal needed to take on Hezbollah in Lebanon and eliminate the Iranian threat in Syria.
The outgoing IDF Northern Command chief also warned Damascus against using S-300’s to protect its sovereignty, if our freedom of movement is threatened.
Israel will soon introduce advanced weapons systems to ensure it can continue to violate neighboring states’ airspace and to strike targets in Syria with impunity.
While acknowledging that such a drastic move might damage Tel Aviv’s relations with Moscow, Strick expressed hope that it would not come to that.
Moscow had supplied the Arab Republic with S-300 air defense systems following the downing of a Russian Il-20 reconnaissance plane with 15 airmen on board in mid-September, during an Israeli raid.
Moscow warned Israel that it will suppress all satellite navigation, radars and communications systems of combat planes over the Mediterranean Sea if their maneuvers threaten Russian forces.
The outgoing IDF chief of staff has acknowledged that Israel has been bombing Syria on a “near-daily” basis for years, in a massive military campaign allegedly aimed at degrading Tehran’s supposed military buildup in the region.
Israel dropped around 2,000 bombs on alleged Iran-linked targets, Gadi Eisenkot told the New York Times in his final interview as chief of staff of the IDF before he retires next week.
Later Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that Israeli air forces attacked a warehouse at Damascus airport late Friday, verifying the information issued by the Syrian military.
While the Syrian government repeatedly accuses the Jewish state of constantly violating its sovereignty and aiding the terrorists by their raids in the country’s airspace, Eisenkot claimed the Israeli actions are justified – and that, anyway, neither Damascus nor Tehran can do anything about it.
Despite the Lieutenant General’s claim about a moral high ground in the battle against the perceived Iranian threat, the Israeli Air Force was caught in several reckless –and sometimes lethal– actions during their missions in Syria.
On Christmas Day the Israeli jets used two civilian aircraft in flight as cover to engage targets in Syria, the Russian Defense Ministry said, noting that the IDF’s F-16’s flew in as civilian jets were landing at Beirut and Damascus airports.
While a tragedy involving civilian airliners was averted last month, similar Israeli tactics led to horrific consequences before.
On September 17, Israeli jets put Russian Il-20 reconnaissance plane into the path of Syrian air defense interceptor missile after failing to give Moscow enough warning of a strike on Syrian targets.
RT. com / ABC Flash Point WW III News 2019.
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