IDF Targets Syrian Army from the Golan for Fifth Time in a Week

Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
June 2, 2017

It used to be once a month or once every six weeks that the IDF would strike a Syria military target inside of Syria, and it would generally be under the pretext that it had something to do with Hezbollah’s arms supply.

As a rule, the Netanyahu regime has publicly claimed that they don’t really care what happens in Syria. Probably, this is partly due not only to the desire of Israel to not look like a psycho terrorist-supporting regime, but because of genuine domestic concerns about ousting Assad.

We usually have a tendency to look at the Jews as monolithic, and though this is true when they are dealing with goyim, there are disagreements among themselves in Israel. Though the mainstream view of international Jewry and of a lot of Israelis is that Assad should be ousted by ISIS, there is a large faction of Israelis that believe the idea of having a full-on ISIS command center on their border is not a smart move.

This is the general view of international Jewry, but it isn’t ubiquitous in Israel.

I can’t figure what their game is here.

RT:

Israel has fired at Syrian army positions after projectiles launched from Syrian territory landed on the Israeli side of the border, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said on Twitter. The attack follows a series of similar incidents over the week.

IDF said it targeted the “Syrian military artillery position” on Saturday as retaliation for two stray shells hitting the Israeli-controlled part of the disputed Golan Heights.

“A projectile launched from Syria hit an open area in the northern Golan Heights,” the Israeli military said in a statement. The “errant projectile” that triggered the return fire was “a result of internal fighting in Syria,” it added.

A similar spillover incident reportedly occurred an hour later, when a second shell hit the same area coming from the Syrian side of the border.

The incident has not resulted in any material damage to the Israeli military. No injuries have been reported, according to IDF.

…In the wake of the attack IDF issued a statement, reinforcing its pledge to respond to any spillover fire.

“Israel maintains a policy of non-involvement in the Syrian civil war. However, we will not tolerate any breach of Israel’s sovereignty,” Spokesman Brig. Gen. Ronen Manelis said to Israeli media.

The incident comes as tensions on the Israeli-Syrian border have flared up over the past week, with at least five similar exchanges taking place since last Saturday.

One of the incidents coincided with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the Golan Heights on Wednesday.

During the visit Netanyahu reinforced Israel’s claims on the disputed territory and vowed retaliation for any attack on the territory, whatever its source.

Rick Sterling, investigative journalist and member of the Syria Solidarity Movement, told RT he considers the Israeli retaliatory fire “a clear violation of Syrian sovereignty.”

Sterling said he believes the source of the projectiles targeting the Israeli-controlled area in the Golan Heights might well be Syrian rebels backed by the Israeli military, who are thus providing a convenient pretext for their ally to mount an attack on Syria.

“[The IDF] are using this as an excuse and it was pointed out that the terrorists can just fire some projectiles into the Israeli-occupied territory and get the Israelis to come and attack the Syrians in alliance with the terrorists,” the journalist told RT.

The other odd thing about this is that it isn’t being covered in any non-Israeli English media other than Russian (and by proxy, Assad) propaganda outlet RT. Obviously, the Western media ignores stuff with Israel a whole lot, though they will often also play it up, and give it an angle – in this case, for instance, they could be saying “see, the Jews have no choice but to attack!”

And yet they are silent.

The Breitbart piece on it is Israeli propaganda, of the sort you would maybe expect to see in the mainstream media with something like this going on.

I mean, obviously if they were planning on going full-Gaza, the Western media would have to deal with this and frame it in terms of “these Jews have no choice.” They would be laying the groundwork for that now in the media. So either they’re not planning to escalate this, or the Israeli Jews are not communicating to their Western media counterparts that they’re planning to escalate it.

Any option is strange, frankly. The idea that this is simply the Israelis concerned about bottle rockets landing in their occupied Syrian territories of the Golan is not a believable excuse.