They agreed for a ceasfire because they knew Al Qaeda terrorist's where planning to attack Assad.
This is wrong for two reasons
1) have already posted the tweet that Israeli intel until a week back knew nothing about this and the Israeli journalist who made that tweet is quite close with the intel community
2) Israel not agreeing to a ceasefire means more pressure on hezbollah that cannot go save Assad. On this both Israel & Syrian rebels are on the same side. A ceasefire would reduce the pressure on Hezbollah.
The speed at which they went into Syria means Isreal was already prepared.
They scrambled to cover the buffer zone and the Syrian posts that were abandoned. It's just across the border and this is not an invasion force that would need advance planning.
Kamala and Biden are not making the decisions, its Antony Blinken and Jake sullivan NSA for Biden. The same person who said to then Sec Hillary Clinton, that AL Qaeda was on their side in Syria. These people have lot if intelligence and this takes months to plan. So Israel knew there is something greener to get.
I'm crediting the Turks for this move. They have boots on the ground through HTS that they fund and arm and knew there was an opportunity. They did the planning. Only a green light from Washington was needed.
Israel has a history of screwing the US,
en.wikipedia.org
Newly declassified documents reveal how David Ben-Gurion’s mumbles and a trick sightseeing tour helped Israeli officials pull the wool over Washington’s eyes on the real…
foreignpolicy.com
Plus one more incident that I remember but do not know the operation name.
You're forgetting that Israel & US only became allies in the late 60s. These incidents were prior to that and Liberty incident happened under fog of six day war which the Israelis mistook for Egyptian and apologised.
Israel fought three wars successfully before the Americans became their allies. In fact the US was hostile for two wars..
Truman embargoed Israel in 1948. Eisenhower demanded Israel return the Sinai in '56 and scuttled the Anglo French war because Nasser nationalised the canal. The six day war was fought with French hardware.
He wants to defeat the west
Erdogan uses the power he has over Russia and Nato thanks to the control of the Bosporus strait.
Turkey was buying cheap oil from ISIS right under the nose of US and Nato. Russia entered the party in 2015, their first act of air strikes was taking out ISIS oil trucks and exchange terminals. So much so that Erdogan shot down a Russian SU24 bomber when it was attacking terrorists, worse still the Turkey backed terrorists shot and killed the Co pilot of the SU24 while he was still descending down from his parachute and the body had more entry holes consistent with point blank execution. The rescue helicopter was also destroyed along with a russian marine on the ground with a US supplied TOW missile.
The amount of times Erdogan has back stabbed Russia and Syria, I have lost count..
All fair points and Erdogan does have neo Ottoman ambitions. He wants to rebuild the caliphate that Ataturk dismantled.
What I'm reading here is Turkey would encourage HTS to go after the oil fields so Turkey does not have to supply oil to HTS. And that's fine because the oil producing areas are under Kurdish control whom Turkey sees as separatists. The map shows its not complete control though.
The tricky part is they will have to counter the US when doing so. See this
tweet by Lindsay Graham
Your article says those oil fields don't produce enough anyway so the status quo will continue. Turkey will have to continue supporting HTS and the Americans will help the Kurds.
All I know is US companies operate them and are protected by 800 to 1000 US personal with air support. How much is that helping Kurds or FSA/SDF etc no one knows.
It's helping the Kurds for sure.
Some of the hardware Israel has is better then the US but yes for jets and mass produced NATO standard ammo they are dependent on the US but still they have a lot of power in DC. AIPAC candidates are mostly in US administration. Once the Epstein client list comes out and any more info on who was benefitting from it, we will get the answers.
So called lobby has done very little to safeguard jews living there.
Bloody Smotrich. Should have known. If it isn't him its Ben Gvir. Both are from the religious far right.
These two don't know when to shut up and frequently the government has to explain their crap.
Yes, both are government ministers that have freedom of speech in a democracy. But we must not confuse their statements for policy. In other words they speak for themselves.
I follow videos from the far right from time to time. They bash the PM as much as the opposition does which gets tiring.
It starts off sounding reasonable and then gets crazy. Common pattern you will see with any extreme party anywhere. Best part is these fools complaining that the government isn't listening to them
Golam heights itself was taken as a pretext for a buffer zone and now they want a buffer zone for the buffer zone. Also who in their right mind even support ISIS and AL Qaeda. Israel even took in AL Qaeda fighters and treated them in their hospitals.
Golan was taken in '67 and annexed in' 82. Other than the US under Trump nobody recognises that border. Golan is to Israel what Siachen is for us. That world does not recognise is not our problem.
The buffer zone was agreed in '74 after the Yom Kippur war and this buffer would be inside Syrian territory. The agreement has held for fifty years with the Assad government.
Jabat al Nusra which the present leader of Syria started as a splinter from Al Q had Gulf support to topple Assad last time around. So expect similar help from the gulf this time too.
Israel has pushed the borders over the years and displaced people, I am waiting for what they would do with Gaza.
Only Golan. Otherwise they have retreated and paid the price. See Hezbollah after leaving Lebanon and Gaza after 2005
Watch the video. So far conspiracy theorists have a better track record on Nato/Israel/Ukraine, they are now just spoiler alert.
I would not be betting anything on what Smotrich or Ben Gvir say. They are playing to their religious far right supporters. These guys don't make policy and have the PM over a barrel because as coalition partners, if they withdraw support then government falls.
