Surprise: IDF Brig. Gen. calls Sunday Times of London report on Syria 'not credible' and 'far-fetched'
According to the Sunday Times, reconnaissance satellites have revealed preparations made by the Syrian army to deploy surface-to-surface Tishreen missiles. Syrian President Bashar Assad, the report said, is ready to use these missiles should Israel decide to conduct a strike on Damascus.
The paper quotes Israeli missile export Uzi Rubin as saying Syria has a lot of Tishreen missiles at its disposal, and that should they fire them at Israel, they could potentially paralyze all commercial flights coming in and out of the country.
"Our polices are to stop, as much as possible, any leaks of advanced weaponry to Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations. We will continue to act to ensure the security interests of the citizens of Israels," Netanyahu stressed.
IDF spokesman Brig.-Gen. Yoav Mordechai took to his Facebook page on Sunday to criticize the Sunday Times report, calling it "not credible" and "far fetched."
"The IDF continues to follow any scenario and be prepared to any scenario, in the northern border as well as any other border, which doesn't leave us with much time to speculate about the future," Mordechai wrote.
The report comes amidst a great deal of uncertainty surrounding the Middle East and Syria in particular after Israel allegedly carried out two airstrikes on several targets in Syria earlier this month.
Israel declined to confirm the strikes so as not to pressure Syrian President Bashar Assad into serious retaliation, according to a confidant of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.However, Israel Radio reported this morning that the United States has apologized to Israel for disclosing that Israel was behind the strikes on Damascus two weeks ago. More in the next post.
Labels: Bashar al-Assad, Hezbullah, Syria, Tel Aviv, Times of London
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:55 PM
1 Comments:
What Arik predicted was so accurate concerning what Israel must do to secure her future. Forfeitting land to your haters is the same as aggreeing to curl up and die without causing them anymore trouble because they want you to! With every goad we should be pushing those borders back establishing fat buffer zones. Driving them back into the desert where their forefathers came from. Syria wants to mess with us? Don't start none, there won't be none! Why live in retreat when you can become the force the change your own future? The pages are blank, we can write a better ending to the story.
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