Hezbollah is creeping up on Israel's Golan border, relying on Russian military cover - http://www.debka.com/article/24972/Hizballah-is-creeping-up-on-Israel's-Golan-border-relying-on-Russian-military-cover
Wholly preoccupied with the ferocious Palestinian terror campaign washing over their country, Israelis have scarcely noticed that Hezbollah forces, believing they are protected by the Russian military presence in Syria, are creeping toward Israel's northeastern Golan border. debkafile reports: The Lebanese group thinks it is a step away from changing the military balance on the Golan to Israel's detriment and gaining its first Syrian jumping-off base against the Jewish state - depending on the Syrian-Hezbollah forces winning the fierce battle now raging around Quneitra opposite Israel's military positions.
For two years, Hezbollah, egged on intensely by Iran, has made every effort to plant its forces along the Syrian border with Israel. For Tehran, this objective remains important enough to bring Al Qods Brigades chief, Gen. Qassem Soleiman, on a visit last week to the Syrian army's 90th Brigade Quneitra base, which is the command post of the battle waged against Syrian rebel forces.
Soleimani, who is commander-in-chief of Iran's military operations across the Middle East, is acting as military liaison in Syria between Tehran and Moscow.
debkafile's military sources report that the Iranian general inspected the Quneitra battle lines no more than 1.5-2 km from the Israeli Golan border. He arrived a few days after Revolutionary Guards Col. Nader Hamid, commander of Iranian and Hezbollah forces in the region, died there fighting against Syrian rebels.
His death betrayed the fact that not only are Hezbollah forces gaining a foothold on the strategic Golan enclave, but with them are Iranian servicemen, officers and troops.
While in Quneitra, the Iranian general also sought to find out whether Col. Hamid really did die in battle or was targeted for assassination by Israel to distance Iranian commanders from its border.
Just 10 months ago, on Jan. 18, Israel drones struck a group of Iranian and Hizballah officers who were secretly scouting the Quneitra region for a new base. Iranian Gen. Ali Mohamad Ali Allah Dadi died in that attack.
But Tehran and Hezbollah are again trying their luck. During his visit to Quneitra, Soleimani called up reinforcements to boost the 500 Hizballah fighters in the sector.
Seen from Israel, the Syrian conflict is again bringing enemy forces into dangerous proximity to its border.
The Iranian general and Russian Air Force commanders agree that the drawn-out battle for Quneitra will not be won without Russian air strikes against the rebels holding out there. A decision to extend Russia's aerial campaign from northern and central Syria to the south would be momentous enough to require President Vladimir Putin's personal approval.
This decision would, however, cross a strong red line Israel laid down when Binyamin Netanyahu met Putin on Sept. 21 in Moscow and when, last week, a delegation of Russian generals visited Tel Aviv to set up a hot line for coordinating Israeli and Russian air operations over Syria.
Israeli officials made it very clear that Iranian and Hezbollah forces would not be permitted to establish a presence opposite the Israeli Golan border and that any Russian air activity over southern Syria and areas close to its borders was unacceptable.
The possibility of Israeli fighter jets being scrambled against Russian aerial intervention in the Quneitra battle was not ruled out.
This state of affairs was fully clarified to Gen. Joseph Dunford, Chairman of the Joint US Chiefs of Staff, when he was taken on a trip this week to the southern Golan under the escort of IDF Chief of Staff Gen. Gady Eisenkot and OC Northern Command Gen. Avivi Kochavi. He visited the command post of Brig. Yaniv Azor, commander of the Bashan Division, which will be called upon for action if the hazard to Israel's security emanating the Quneitra standoff takes a dangerous turn.
Israel Watch: Israel's Options - Jim Fletcher - http://www.raptureready.com/rap15.html
No country in history has dealt with a Terror War as long as Israel. Since the first large wave of Jewish immigration to Palestine in 1882, Jews have been considered the enemy by the Arabs.
The so-called Pan Arab Nation, stretching of course across the Middle East, has had a fanatical hatred of the Jews and Israel, from the beginning. Jordan's first King Abdullah was an exception; he was prepared to make peace with Israel when he was assassinated outside Al-Aksa Mosque in 1952. His grandson, the current king, could take some cues from Grandpa. Today's King Abdullah has recently joined in the incitement game, shifting blame for his governing failures to Israel.
My friend, Kay Wilson, an Israeli who was hacked with a machete by Palestinians and left for dead, recently picked up an elderly Arab hitchhiker, who was thirsty in the desert. He cursed his fellow Arabs for murdering Jews and Kay posted a pic of the two of them, smiling, on Facebook.
Not all Palestinians hate the Jews.
But too many of them do.
From the Iranian nuclear ambitions, to the knifing and shooting attacks that have erupted in the last several weeks, Israel finds herself besieged. When one considers the sheer scope of the Terror War against Israel, it is truly astonishing.
Consider the fact that Hamas last year had a sophisticated tunnel system in place, ready to spring terrorists on unsuspecting Israelis...in their homes and businesses! Israel was able to literally uncover this plot in the nick of time.
Next, imagine you are headed to the shuk to shop for fruits and vegetables, ahead of Shabbat. You are turning a corner in a neighborhood you are long familiar with, when all of a sudden a young Arab man in nice jogging clothes produces a knife and tries to kill you.
Now, wrap your mind around the fact that you watch the evening news and hear of Sheik Nasrallah's latest threats to use Hezbollah's rocket stockpiles to rain death down on the Jewish state.
It's enough to make one question the international community's sanity.
Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu has great experience thwarting terror. It is a way of life for Israelis.
For the most part, they have opted for surgical strikes against Hamas, and the rest of the killers. Frankly, concern over international condemnation has caused Israel to show too much restraint. Summer wars against Hamas, cross-border commando raids, diplomacy, preparation for conventional warfare...all these things are routine planning for Israel.
There have been myriad proposals over the years, and even the Arabs know Oslo long ago was a failure.
I propose a plan.
Population transfer on a large scale is not going to happen in today's world. However, I believe the Israelis should implement a limited population transfer:
Send the Palestinian Authority to Gaza. Dismantle all governmental structures in Hebron, Bethlehem, Ramallah, etc. Bulldoze Saeb Erekat's home in Jericho. The same with Abu Mazen in Ramallah. Load all the ministers and corrupt hangers-on onto trucks and ship them to the Gaza Strip, then seal it off.
In this way, the two main terror entities, Hamas and the PA, will be pinned between mighty Israel and Egypt, which almost equally loathes the thugs.
I believe that while international condemnation would certainly be forthcoming, Israel would however be left alone to clean its streets of terrorist scum.
Under Ariel Sharon's premiership, the IDF came relatively close to targeting top PA leadership. When Israel fails to do so, it loses its deterrent effect. Netanyahu has been even more restrained.
Restraint means one thing to the Arabs: Open Season on Jews.
This is unacceptable.
Remove the terror masters, and then see if over the course of the next generation Palestinians decide to behave and join the civilized world.
It's their only chance.
The Stabbing Intifada - by Hal Lindsey - http://www.hallindsey.com/ww-10-22-2015/
A new wave of violence is sweeping across Israel. As of this writing, at least 48 Palestinians have died, and 10 Israelis. Sadly, for much of the world, the story stops there. They conclude that because more Palestinians have died, Israel must be in the wrong. In order to defend its citizens against terror attacks, Israel is again being painted as the aggressor. But it's not true.
Analyst Nehemia Gershuni keeps a running record of statistics on the "stabbing intifada." The numbers change fast, but as I write this, there have been 1444 attacks by Palestinians against Jews in Israel since October 1st. There were 873 attacks against civilians, 181 against soldiers, 155 against policemen.
So, yes, 48 Palestinians have been killed, but they were killed by Israeli policemen and soldiers defending themselves or others. The death toll on both sides comes as result of those Palestinians willing to sacrifice peace and prosperity on the altar of their religion. They arm their young with knives, rocks, Molotov cocktails, and instructions to kill. On social media, Palestinian activists have posted videos and photos giving detailed instructions on "how to stab a Jew."
When it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the U.S. State Department seems to lose its mind, regularly equating acts of self-defense with killing someone simply because he's a Jew. Spokesman John Kirby seemed to accuse Israel of terrorism when he said, "I would say certainly individuals on both sides of this divide have proven capable of and in our view [are] guilty of acts of terror."
Palestinian leaders tell the west they want the violence to stop, but at home they paint the hoodlums as heroes, even martyrs. In Paris, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said, "It's extremely dangerous. We don't want to see this continue." But at home, Abbas went on television and spoke of "aggression by Israel and its settlers, who commit terror against our people," and who "execute our children in cold blood, as they did to the child Ahmed Manasra and other children in Jerusalem and elsewhere."
When he accused Israel of committing "terror against our people," saying they "execute our children in cold blood," he was intentionally inciting the very violence that he said in Paris he wants to stop.
The 13-year-old that Abbas accused Israel of executing, Ahmed Manasra, turns out to be alive in an Israeli hospital. But it's fair to ask why Ahmed was harmed at all. A video shows him and his 17-year-old cousin stabbing a 13-year-old Jewish boy in the neck. The video also shows the two cousins in a knife attack on a 25-year-old. When Ahmed's cousin ran toward police with a knife, they shot and killed him. All of that is on video. But despite the evidence, Palestinian media continue to portray these boys as "martyrs" who were "executed in cold blood."
As he drove toward work, a young Israeli Air Force lieutenant saw a Palestinian terrorist stabbing a female IDF soldier with a screwdriver. He sprang into action, shooting and killing the terrorist. You cannot fairly equate his action in defense of a soldier being stabbed with the stabbing itself. But that's what the present U.S. Administration does.
President Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, and other Administration officials have a long and remarkably consistent history of placing guilt on Israel every time the Palestinians launch a new wave of attacks. They attempt to show even-handedness by condemning both sides equally.
This is a logical fallacy, and it has a name - "false equivalence." It happens when someone equates two things that are fundamentally different.
Meanwhile, Secretary of State Kerry has chosen to feed the violence by excusing it. "There's been a massive increase in settlements over the course of the last years," Kerry said, "and there's an increase in the violence because there's this frustration that's growing."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded, "This wave of attacks is not a result of lack of political horizon and not because of a settlements wave. There is no such wave."
The State Department tried to walk back Kerry's statement. Spokesman Kirby said, "The secretary wasn't saying, well now you have the settlement activity as the cause for the effect we're seeing. Is it a source of frustration for Palestinians? You bet it is, and the secretary observed that. But this isn't about affixing blame on either side here for the violence."
A Palestinian terrorist stabs a young woman in the neck with a screwdriver, but America has become so morally depleted that it can no longer "affix blame" to the terrorist.
Netanyahu said, "We expect all our friends, and anyone concerned with the facts and the truth, to look at these facts to see the truth and not to draw false symmetry between Israeli citizens and those who would stab them and knife them to death."
The world's media blames Israel. U.S. leaders blame both sides equally. Both of those outcomes offer rich rewards for Palestinian violence, thus inciting more of it.
The plain sense Biblically is this; if you are being attacked, you have a right to defend yourself. Israel is not attacking anyone - the Palestinians are. So attack with any means possible.
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