Israel attacks Syria

bilston wrote: »

Israel saying they were responding to an Iranian drone coming into contact with an Israeli helicopter. It's not clear whether this occurred over Israeli airspace. Presumably it did leading to the Israeli response.

Would you believe anything out of the Israelis..

Maybe you should check out whats happening in northern Syria OP.

rockatansky wrote: »

Nothing really serious about it to be honest. They attack Syria quite regularly. The plane came down in Israel with the pilots ejected before it crashed.

All war is serious. And lets us not forget Russian forces are inside Syria now and Isreal could easily kill Russians by mistake. The plane was shot down while under fire. Isreal is playing a dangerous game. You don't see Iran and Syria sending fighter jets into Isreal to attack targets.

rockatansky wrote: »

You really believe Syria and Iran could attack Israel with ease?

This isn't going to escalate into more than an incident. Israel will respond with more air strikes, then pull back.

You forget the Lebanon vs Isreal war in 2006. Isreal sustained heavy losses was the reason they retreated. Hezbollah was successful was the Iranians supplied them with better weaponry to fight with. Iranians have modernised their army capabilities in the last decade, they have missile capability to hit Isreal.

I not saying it will escalate, but there is always a chance it will when you got different countries killing each other soldiers on the ground.

The anti-aircraft batteries that shot down the Isreal jet are operated by Russians and Syrians at the Kheimim air base. Isreal was to go nuts and hit the Kheimim base, the likely kill Russian personnel. Of course, Isreal could warn ahead of time, but the element of surprise is no longer there for the attack.

jacksie66 wrote: »

Israel couldn't conquer Syria with its puppets in the US military and ISIS so it's doing it's own dirty work now..

Why would Israel want to conquer Syria?

Don't know why they are crying over a downed jet...in all fairness they worked hard for it

Hande hoche! wrote: »

Now the Syrian Kurds have shot down a Turkish chopper.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-turkey-helicopte/turkish-helicopter-shot-down-by-kurdish-militia-in-syrias-afrin-erdogan-idUSKBN1FU0M3

This is terrible the Kurds and Turks can't sort out their differences, but this conflict is not really a threat to global peace. A war involving Iran and Isreal is dangerous as it potentially can drag in world powers.

Gatling wrote: »

There is a simple reason why ,

They haven't got the aircraft or weapons to fly into Israeli airspace to mount an attack ,
They also know that Israel would wipe out both Assads and Irans airforces in a counter strike

Yes, they do have, the refuelling of jets is the problem. Iran to Israel is a long distance to travel. If they stationed Iranian fighters in Syria this would reduce the flight time. Iran knows Israel would target those planes if they stationed them there.

Gatling wrote: »

A few 60's and 70's era f4 phantoms and f14 tomcats and a few mig 29s
Vs
The latest.variants f15s ,f16s, with the latest weapons systems and avionics and electronic warfare systems ,

Let's see who wins

They are domestically producing modern fighter aircraft now Qaher F-313 stealth fighter jet and F35 fighter jet. I never said they beat the Israeli fighters in an air battle. They do have aircraft that can hit Israel targets.

Widdershins wrote: »

Anything to do with Erdogan invading Syria? Or perhaps the ISIS terrorists? I'm not aware of the details of the issue the post is about, but there seems to be scant awareness of the invasion by Erdogan, on Boards

The Astana agreement led Turkey, Iran and Russia to be guaranturs of various "de-escalation" zones throughout Syria.

Part of Turkeys responsibility was to establish and monitor the Idlib/Aleppo de-escalation zone by building watch towers and placing Turkish troops on the ground in northern Idlib.

This strategic move seems to have been a well thought out premptive ploy by Erdogan to ensure that the Kurds could not manoeuvre anywhere once Erdogan launched his offensive in the Afrin Canton. The Kurds are boxed in with nowhere to go.

These Israeli airstrikes have nothing to do with the situation up north. Israel has consistently warned all regional players that any Iranian or Shiite presence near Israeli territory will not be tolerated. Despite this, there is quite a large Iranian presence in southern Syria.

The Israeli airstrike in itself is not a big deal, the Syrian/Iranian response by accurately targeting and downing an Israeli jet is significant. Its the first time in 30 years that it has happened.

Israel regularly carries out airstirkes in Syria and Syria regularly uses anti aircraft weapons on the jets but they never usually hit them.

The question of escalation is the worry over the next 24hrs.

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

Make sense those jews did kill Jesus after all.

It was Romans nailed him to the cross and it was his buddy Judas allegedly betrayed him. Jewish people did not kill him. Of course, who can say if he ever truly lived?