{"id":59562,"date":"2018-02-11T17:05:23","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T15:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=59562"},"modified":"2018-02-11T10:07:50","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T08:07:50","slug":"19-05-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=59562","title":{"rendered":"IDF Will \u2018Stand Guard Against Further Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>After Decisive Military Response Against Iranian Positions in Syria, IDF Will \u2018Stand Guard Against Further Attacks\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Chief of Staff Lieutenant-General Gadi Eizenkot at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv. Photo: Israel Ministry of Defense.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu affirmed on Saturday that Israel would \u201cdefend itself against any aggression and any attempt to violate its sovereignty,\u201d in phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson that followed Saturday\u2019s IDF bombing raids on Iranian positions in Syria.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The exchange of fire \u2013 the most extensive attack on Syrian air defenses since the Lebanon War of 1982, according to Israeli Air Force Staff Commander Brig. Gen. Tomer Bar \u2013 was provoked by an Iranian drone that infiltrated Israeli airspace over the town of Beit Shean in the early hours of Saturday morning. Iran had \u201cviolated our sovereignty, and infiltrated its drone into Israeli airspace from Syria,\u201d Netanyahu declared.<\/span><\/p>\n

The drone had been sighted taking off from a base in Syria, and was intercepted after it crossed into Israeli territory, IDF spokesman Lt.-Col. Jonathan Conricus said. The IDF later released footage of what it said was the drone\u2019s control vehicle in Syria being destroyed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Israeli jets responded to the incursion with two powerful waves of strikes on Iranian positions in Syria. One Israeli F-16 jet was downed in the first wave of strikes, with the wreckage landing in northern Israel. The two pilots ejected to safety, although one is reported to have been seriously injured.<\/span><\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s decisive military response would compel the Tehran regime to think again before escalating any conflict, a leading Israeli military analyst observed.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis was a serious retaliation by Israel,\u201d Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Amos Yadlin \u2013 former head of IDF Intelligence and currently the Executive Director of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Tel Aviv \u2013 said on a conference call organized by The Israel Project. \u201cThis is why the event was contained and not escalated.\u201d
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\n\"\"\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Jonathan Conricus<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 @LTCJonathan<\/span>
\nHere\u2019s a quick summary of today\u2019s events, from the #<\/span>Iranian<\/span><\/a> UAV to our large-scale strike against the #<\/span>Syrian<\/span><\/a> air-defense. The IDF will stand guard against any further attacks.<\/p>\n
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Yadlin noted that two SAM missile sites were among the multiple targets struck by Israeli jets in Saturday\u2019s raids. As a result, the Syrian capital Damascus has been left without serious air defenses, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a statement, the Russian Foreign Ministry urged \u201call sides to exercise restraint and to avoid any actions that could lead to an even greater complication of the situation.\u201d A statement from the Pentagon expressed US support for \u201cIsrael\u2019s inherent right to defend itself against threats to its territory and its people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Yadlin observed that while an immediate escalation is unlikely, Saturday\u2019s events demonstrated the fragile security balance in the region brought about by Iran\u2019s intervention in the Syrian civil war on behalf of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. \u201cThere is a much higher chance of a strategic collision between Iran\u2019s determination to build a force in Syria, and Israel\u2019s determination not to let them,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since 2015, Iran has deployed thousands of its own troops in Syria alongside Shia fighters from proxy terrorist groups such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and Iraq\u2019s Hashd al-Shaabi. As well as stabilizing Assad, Iran\u2019s overarching goal is to secure a land corridor between the Iranian border and the Mediterranean coast stretching through Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. The heavy fighting in recent days in the northern Syrian province of Idlib has also threatened to bring Iran into conflict with Turkey, which is currently waging a brutal military campaign against Kurdish fighters in Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yadlin said that Russia \u2013 the key outside power in Syria that has backed Assad together with Iran \u2013 had no interest whatsoever in an escalation of hostilities. \u201cContrary to popular wisdom, the Americans are still in Syria and the Russians do not exercise unlimited power there,\u201d Yadlin said. \u201cA conflict between Iran, Hezbollah, Syria and Israel is not in Russia\u2019s interest at all.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Hezbollah said in a statement that Saturday\u2019s developments \u201cmean the old equations have categorically ended.\u201d For its part, Iran dismissed Israeli claims of a drone incursion as \u201cridiculous.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe illegitimate Zionist regime cannot cover up its atrocities and crimes against Muslim nations in the region by playing a blame game and spreading lies,\u201d Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n

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