#BREAKING: Reports in #Syria indicate #Israel struck the T4 airbase in Homs Province. It is a major logistical hub for #Iran moving men, material, weapons, and more into Syria.
Reports also indicate several air defense missiles were fired in response.
In the days ahead, watch for what weapons system was destroyed and the number of #Iran#IRGC members killed and their portfolios.
Also interesting will be its impact when Netanyahu meets with #Putin in Moscow in a few days (July 11) which is undoubtedly all about #Iran’s presence in #Syria.
The last time Netanyahu met Putin in #Russia was in May, and hours after that meeting #Israel launched a comprehensive assault against #Iran’s positions in #Syria. This strike, the May strike, and the previous Putin meeting indicate Russia is unwilling or unable to pressure Iran.
Netanyahu will likely provide the same red lines as before but with more specificity since Iran and its proxies are now camped out a few miles from #Israel’s borders.
5 days after Netanyahu meets with #Putin in Moscow, Trump will meet the #Russian president in #Helsinki (July 16). Trump will likely press Putin to guarantee #Iran’s withdrawal from #Syria, which #Israel already knows won’t happen.
It’s puzzling why Trump would try to secure a deal with #Russia that has already failed with #Israel, in which there is such a long track record of Russia lying and not upholding its end of any deal in #Syria.
For this reason and many others not suitable to Twitter constrains, Trump should adopt maximal positions on all things #Syria in order to have some leverage and something to trade when he meets with Putin.
Trump will not get a “grand bargain” from Putin regarding #Iran in #Syria for many reasons but it is downright impossible if he continues to broadcast his desire to withdraw and declare victory. Words matter; actions matter. They matter the most when they are in sync & congruent.
I should probably mention that #Israel has struck this exact T4 base in #Syria several times in the past and #Russia has had a varying response for each. Military assets (men and material) from #Iran were always the target.
#Israel’s alleged strike yesterday on the T4 base in #Syria reportedly destroyed another UAV command & control center, at least 3 SAM launchers (Khordad / Thor M1), and a number of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps #IRGC personnel were killed and wounded. #Iran
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#BREAKING: In response to over 36 rockets launched from #Hamas-controlled #Gaza, #Israel responded with air strikes. This press release describes what happened. 👇🏼
#BREAKING: At this point some 70 projectiles have been fired from #Hamas-controlled #Gaza today.
“#Hamas is not authorized to sign any agreement with #Israel because it has no representative status,” a senior Fatah official in Ramallah told The Jerusalem Post. “The Palestinian Authority is the only legitimate party representing the Palestinians.”
What if we just got #Fatah and #Hamas their own Attaché badges like Edward Tavner on the show, Patriot? We could engrave, “Legitimate Palestinian Representative,” on it instead. 💡
Here’s how Abbas will get Palestinians killed: He is again claiming something HE KNOWS is utter bull$h*t, this time about Islam’s holiest site in #Jerusalem. His brainwashed population will riot. #Israel will defend itself. Abbas, like #Hamas, has to go. jpost.com/Israel-News/Ab…
Even more cynical is that while Abbas will foment riots in #Jerusalem based on his own lies, he will take US funding to rebuild #Gaza - because from America’s point of view, it’s better to have a corrupt thug ruling Palestinians than it is #Hamas. jpost.com/Breaking-News/…
Even better, Abbas’ PLO discusses severing ties with #Israel as it mulls accepting a US financial handout to strengthen it in #Gaza, while lying to the Palestinian people in the West Bank to spark a riot in #Jerusalem. I think we’ve had enough. jpost.com/Israel-News/PL…
Because THIS guy draws another false equivalence between the torrent of lies he spun selling the #IranDeal and Trump’s meetings that resulted in nothing similar, I’m compelled to call him out in vivid detail as I did in 2015 with this thread for the record 👇🏼
You can follow along with the article I wrote in @TimesofIsrael in 2015, "Framework Iran’ Sequel Leaves Audiences and Critics Confused" in which I demonstrate that at nearly every turn, #Iran's version of the deal was accurate and the White House lied. blogs.timesofisrael.com/framework-iran…
We should recall that in 2015, there was a sizable disagreement between the garbage Ben Rhode's and his #EchoChamber were selling, what Europe was saying, and what #Iran said happened.
Exactly. The issue for #Israel is #Iran in #Syria, not the distance from its borders. Iran has precision guided munitions and ballistic missiles that can strike Israel from anywhere in Syria. jpost.com/Breaking-News/…
This would be akin to the Soviet Union offering to move it's nuclear weapons from Cuba to Jamaica. It's a non-starter.