The IDF must cut short tunnel operation, get set for repercussions from Trump’s stunning Syria withdrawal........
December 21, 2018
Israel’s leaders – government, military and intelligence – weredumbfounded by US President Donald Trump’s decision yesterday to pull US troops out of Syria as part of its withdrawal from the Mid-East at large.
Senior ministers received no answers to their urgent calls to the prime minister’s office and Military Intelligence (AMAN) officers for confirmation of the news.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, himself, only received word of the decision just five minutes before it hit Twitter, our sources have learned, although he talked to the president and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo some days ago.
In recent conversations with US National Security Adviser John Bolton, as well as Pompeo, about the IDF operation against Hizballah tunnels, both US officials assured Netanyahu that he had nothing to worry about.
US troops were present in eastern and northern Syria, they said, and they would not let pro-Iranian Iraqi militias come through from western Iraq to the aid of Hizballah.
Israeli officials were further dismayed early Thursday, December 20, when they understood that the only leaders to receive prior notice of Trump’s decision were Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.
This was inferred from intelligence of a secret deal, which the president’s adviser on Syrian affairs James Jeffrey had reached with Erdogan and which opened the way for Turkish military movements in Syria in the wake of the US pull-out.
As recently as Monday, December 17, Jeffrey told the Atlantic Council in Washington in a speech: “The eventual goal of the mainly-Kurdish Syrian Defence Forces (SDF) should be to become part of the fabric of a changed Syrian society. We do not have permanent relationships with sub-state entities.” This was taken asa clear repudiation of US responsibility for the fate of its Kurdish allies.
Some clues could have been picked up, for instance, from Russia’s deployment in early December of an S-300 air defence battalion in the Deir ez-Zour province of eastern Syria, without demur from Washington, although US troops were nearby.
Israel is also discovering in the last few hours that Tehran and Hizballah stayed silent when Israel launched its operation to uncover Hizballah tunnels last week – not because they were taken aback, as some Israeli officials claimed – but because they had advance notice of the US withdrawal – either from Moscow or from Ankara – and saw it being totally eclipsed in importance by the sensation about to be landed by President Trump.
Military sources stress that the IDF must wrap up this operation with all possible speed and lose no time in getting set for the major repercussions about to roll in on Israel’s northern front as soon as the 2,200 US forces depart Syria.
The reorganization required could take months of intense work.
Bad News for Israel? ...............
21 December 2018
The US administration's planned complete withdrawal from Syria isbad news for Israel both militarily and diplomatically ... since it will be leaving a vacuum in the war-torn country that will very likely be filled by Iran.
Even though America had less than 2,000 troops in Syria, the President decided to withdraw them and stop all air strikes, President Trump has now set in motion the completion of the Gog-Magog Invasion prophecy of Ezekiel 38-39!
You see, God foretold that Russia will lead this invasion and will equip and train the military forces of the other nations who are marching with Russia. And, those nations are:
* Persia, today's Iran
* House of Togarmah, today's Turkey
* Gomer, today's Eastern Europe
* Libya
* Ethiopia
Now that American military power is no longer in Syria, Russia, Iran and Turkey can continue pouring in troops, munitions and the materiel needed to amass on Israel's border. Today, Russia, Iran and Turkey are already in Syria, but they were restrained to some extentby the American military presence.
But, Trump's withdrawal will markedly affect Israel's relationship with Russia.
"The effect of this decision is primarily psychological and diplomatic: With this withdrawal, the US abandons Syria and leaves Israel alone. In those arenas, this is a very significant decision' ... Beyond perceptions, though, the pull-out represents a concrete danger for Israel in south-eastern Syria, where US troops had played a role in keeping the border region with Iraq from becoming an arms smuggling free-for-all”, said Brigadier General (reserves) Yossi Kuperwasser, a former director of Israel's Strategic Affairs Ministry and ex-head of the Research Division of Military Intelligence.
Indeed, Israel will now feel compelled to strike against Iranian and even the Turkish military build-up. But, if Israel is driven to attack Russian forces who have moved too close to the Syrian/Israel border, she will then cross the line of killing Russian troops.
Further, Russian S-300 and S-400 mobile air defence missiles are already in Syria and will pose such a risk to Israeli warplanes that Israel will attack far less often than they should.
The timing for the Gog-Magog War (Ezekiel 38-39) is thus greatly advanced.
Don Stewart’s Breaking News; Wednesday 19 December 2018
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