Netanyahu: Israel Will Strike Iran Directly if Need Be…….
February 18, 2018
February 18, 2018
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Munich security conference on Sunday : “We will act if necessary not just against Iran’s proxies but against Iran itself, if needed.”
Holding aloft a piece of the Iranian drone which Israel captured over its air space, he stressed that Tehran was the world’s greatest threat and “Israel will not allow the regime to put a noose of terror around its neck.”
Taunting Iran’s’ foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif [who spoke to the same conference on Sunday morning - pictured below] in the audience, he asked,” Do you recognise this? You should. It’s yours,” he said.
“You can take a message back to Iran. Do not test Israel’s resolve.”
This drone violated Israel’s sovereignty and posed a threat to our security, he said “We destroyed it and its control centre in Syria.”
The nuclear deal, he went on to argue, had “unleashed a dangerous tiger in the region and beyond … Iran is devouring huge swathes of the Middle East” through its Shi’ite proxies.
Netanyahu warned of the dangers posed to the world by a nuclear-armed Iran. Iran’s aggression will be unchecked and it will encompass the entire world.
Tehran wants to dominate Syria and move its bases and army into Israel’s back yard, acquire Mediterranean naval bases, and transfer tens of thousands of Shiite fighters to Syria.
“I said we would not let this happen and have backed up words with deeds,” he said.
“Israel will continue to prevent Iran from establishing a permanent military presence in Syria and would continue to prevent it from crossing red lines,” he continued.
Our military sources add that Netanyahu had in mind the Iraqi Shiite army that Iran is preparing to send into Syria in two months’ time.
The prime minister did not refer to Russia’s complicity in Iran’s plans.
After delivering his remarks, the prime minister was asked about the chances of a military escalation in light of the drone incident.
“It’s up to Iran. Iran is changing the ground rules,” he replied before producing a map which he had marked in red and the black to symbolise ISIS and the Iranian influence respectively.
“The unfortunate thing is that as ISIS compresses, Iran moves in.”
According to Amos Yadlin, [pictured above] the Executive Director of the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, this recent military action “is perhaps the most serious event since the second Lebanese war or the alleged Israeli attack on the Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007.”
“It is serious because for the first time we have targeted Iranian sites in Syria, and a lot [of] Iranian bases, which leaves Damascus exposed. The rules of the game are not changing. There is a determination by Iran to build a serious military force inside Syria and Lebanon, and we have a serious determination not to allow this to happen.”
He went on to say; that thanks to the disastrous Iranian nuclear deal, the Iranians are using much of their recently acquired wealth to build factories inside Syria and Lebanon.
The Iranian mullahs, Turkey’s Erdogan, and Russia’s Putin are all using what is left of the decimated country of Syria, after its protracted seven-year civil war, to flex their muscles.
This is a very dangerous situation, said he.
A Palestinian Rocket Explodes Near an Israeli Home. No One Hurt…...
February 18, 2018
February 18, 2018
Sirens wailed over the Israeli locations around the Gaza Strip and in the central Negev Saturday night, before a rocket hit a building in Shear Hanegev.
Pictured above, Israeli soldiers stand guard outside the house that was hit.
Pictured above, Israeli soldiers stand guard outside the house that was hit.
No one was hurt.
Earlier, the Israeli air force struck a number of targets across the Gaza Strip, after five Israeli servicemen, including an officer, were injured by a powerful explosion from inside the Palestinian enclave.
Hamas warned Saturday night that the IDF would bear the consequences of any escalation.
The drums of war are now beating louder each and every day.
Israel Report
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