It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Israel has fired warning shots into Syria after mortars launched from Syrian territory hit an Israeli base in the Golan Heights.
The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) said the missile was fired as a warning short after the errant mortal fired from Syria hit the military post.
It is the first time Israel has fired within Syrian territory since the 1973 war.
Several mortar shells have struck the Golan Heights since the Syrian civil war erupted 19 months ago. Israel has recognized the fire as unintentional, but still holds Damascus responsible.
Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria during the 1967 war and went on to annex the territory.
DETAILS TO FOLLOW
Israel recently filed a complaint with the United Nations Security Council after Syrian three tanks entered the demilitarized zone in the Golan Heights earlier this month. The IDF also filed a complaint with UN peacekeeping forces operating in the area.
Originally posted by Swills
reply to post by Shenon
Israel and her western allies know full well the rebel fighters, aka terrorists, in Syria will be targeting Israel next once they are done ousting Assad. The IDF will crush them but regardless what it means is more effing violence in the Middle East.
Syrian envoy claims Israel, US, Saudi Arabia, Qatar intelligence running military operation centers in Turkey; used to oversee rebels' battles.
UNITED NATIONS - Syria has accused Israel, the United States, Saudi Arabia and Qatar of running military operation centers in Turkey to support the rebels by overseeing battles in Syria's 17-month conflict.
In a letter to the UN Security Council released on Friday, Syrian UN Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari also again blamed Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia of "harboring, funding and arming the armed terrorist groups."
Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama has signed a covert directive authorizing U.S. support for Syrian rebels battling President Bashar al-Assad's forces, U.S. officials told CNN on Wednesday.
The secret order, referred to as an intelligence "finding," allows for clandestine support by the CIA and other agencies.
It was unclear when the president signed the authorization for Syria, but the sources said it was within the past several months.
who is funding and supporting these Syrian rebels? If you said the USA, Israel, and the West you'd win! So the west is funding the very terrorists that will most likely be attacking Israel soon. Gotta keep the terrorist train a running and no one keeps it better than the West.
Prior to the 1967 Six Day War, intermittent hostilities centered on the Demilitarized Zones, water issues and shelling and infiltration from the Golan Heights. Since the war, the focus of negotiations has been "land for peace," in particular a demand that Israel return the Golan Heights to Syria along with Syrian recognition of Israel and establishment of peaceful relations with it, as stipulated in UN Security Council Resolution 242. And yet, in the US-brokered Syrian-Israeli talks during the 1990s, Syria demanded that Israeli future withdrawal would be to the "June 4, 1967 Lines", namely west of the former British Mandate border with Syria[1]. Syria attempted to recover the Golan Heights in the Yom Kippur War, but was unsuccessful, only recovering a small part of it in the 1974 disengagement agreement, while committing to distance its armed forces further eastwards compared with their 1967-1973 positions.
Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by Shenon
So Israel gets hit in their military base and they fire a warning shot, and they're the bad guys.
Okay.
I suppose if a nuke ever hit Israel, people would want Israel to pay for the radiation cleanup downwind.
Israel wouldn't have had to make a warning shot if they were not there
Originally posted by Stormdancer777
reply to post by MDDoxs
Israel wouldn't have had to make a warning shot if they were not there
Hello?!
Originally posted by MDDoxs
Golan Heights, was formally Syrian territory that was annexed
In the period between Israel’s War of Independence (1948) and the Six Day War (1967), the Syrians constantly harassed Israeli border communities by firing artillery shells from their dominant positions on the Golan Heights. In October 1966 Israel brought the matter up before the United Nations. Five nations sponsored a resolution criticizing Syria for its actions but it failed to pass due to a Soviet veto.
I am not insinuating that this was the reason for the most recent shelling, but i present the above information to give a bigger picture with regards to this area in particular.
Israel wouldn't have had to make a warning shot if they were not there
Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by MDDoxs
Would your justification apply to Mexico shelling Texas as well?