{"id":27014,"date":"2015-08-21T23:28:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T21:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/norkhosq.net\/?p=27014"},"modified":"2015-08-21T23:28:08","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T21:28:08","slug":"israel-planning-ground-operations-in-syria-us-nato-israel-plans-to-balkanize-syria-redraw-the-map-of-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/norkhosq.net\/?p=27014","title":{"rendered":"Israel Planning Ground Operations in Syria? US-NATO-Israel Plans to Balkanize Syria, Redraw the Map of the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Syria_Israel_Thumbnail\"Israel partnered with Obama\u2019s war on Syria since conflict began in March 2011. It supports ISIS and other takfiri terrorists \u2013 providing arms, treating wounded fighters in Israeli hospitals.<\/em><\/p>\n

It conducted half a dozen or more terror bombings on Syrian targets as well as several cross-border attacks.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s kept a relatively low profile in partnering with Obama\u2019s war to topple Bashar al-Assad, eliminate a regional rival and isolate Iran ahead of likely greater destabilization and possible war on the Islamic Republic based on fabricated threats.<\/p>\n

On Augut 16, Israeli media reported IDF preparations for possible Golan Heights ground operations on Syria\u2019s side of the border if alleged terror attacks occur against Israel \u2013 likely false flags it can use as justification for aggression.<\/p>\n

Israeli media reported state propaganda about threatening Islamists along Israel\u2019s border. The IDF on high alert in response conducted a large-scale drill last week simulating three scenarios: countering a claimed terrorist attack on Israeli forces, a ground incursion into Syria, and repelling an alleged Iranian directed Hezbollah attack.<\/p>\n

Fact: No evidence suggests Islamic State or other terrorist elements in Syria turning on their sources of support, namely Israel.<\/p>\n

They haven\u2019t attacked Israel or its military any time throughout nearly four and a half years of conflict. Nor has Iran or Hezbollah \u2013 neither indicating any intention to do so.<\/p>\n

Israeli claims about earlier Iranian and Hezbollah attacks on its territory from Syrian Golan positions or Lebanon are a complete fabrication \u2013 used as pretext for possible aggression.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, an IDF source lied claiming \u201c(i)t\u2019s clear that Iran is behind all of the (Golan area) terror attacks\u2026in the past two years. The Iranians are using the border \u2013 they establish units \u2013 whether it\u2019s (Jihad) Mughniyeh (a Hezbollah member Israel killed), (Samir) Kuntar (a Palestine Liberation Front operative), and more \u2013 to carry out\u201d attacks.<\/p>\n

These and similar reports are part of Israel\u2019s propaganda war (at times turning hot) against Iran, Syria and Hezbollah.<\/p>\n

Longstanding US\/Israeli plans call for balkanizing Syria \u2013 part of their scheme to redraw the Middle East map, first by likely establishing a buffer and no-fly zone with Ankara in northern Syria.<\/p>\n

US warplanes have been bombing Syrian infrastructure targets for nearly a year on the pretext of targeting ISIS. Turkey is involved attacking Kurdish forces in Syria.<\/p>\n

Perhaps Israel now plans joining them more directly by sending troops cross-border into southern Syria \u2013 against Assad, not nonexistent terrorist threats. Will Libya 2.0 follow?<\/p>\n

Stephen Lendman <\/em><\/strong>lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n

His new book as editor and contributor is titled \u201cFlashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanIII.html<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n

Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network.<\/em><\/p>\n

It airs three times weekly: live on Sundays at 1PM Central time plus two prerecorded archived programs. <\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 Stephen Lendman<\/a>, Global Research, 2015<\/div>\n
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