Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot during a speech at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. Source: Israeli military Spokesperson’s Unit
On December 23, Israeli military Chief of Staff said that U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to withdrawal American troops from Syria should not be “exaggerated” and stressed that Israel is relying on itself to counter any threat from the war torn country.
“This is a significant event, but it should not be overstated. For decades we dealt with [Syria] alone. The IDF operated independently throughout this period, including over the last few years with US and Russian forces present,” Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot said during a speech at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya.
According to Lt. Gen. Eisekot, the Israeli military focused mainly on preventing the Iranians from establishing a strategic military presence throughout Syria in the last four years. The Israeli commander went on to claim that Israel had foiled an Iranian plan to mass 100,000 fighters on the ground ground as well as naval and intelligence bases in Syria, mainly near the separation line with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
“We still haven’t been able to destroy the Iranian capabilities to establish regional hegemony in Syria.” Eisekot added.
Earlier, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to intensify military action in Syria after the White House’s order for all US troops to pullout out of the country.
“I know that we do so with the full support and backing of the US,” Netanyahu said.
While the mainstream media is panicking over U.S. forces withdrawal from Syria and the supposed threat it poses to Israel’s security, the statements of Netanyahu and Lt. Gen. Eisekot indicate that Israel has no problem at all with this step.
These morons does not know that this time Russia is fully against Israeli terror organization. Their a little mistake will take entire Israel to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.
Nethanyahu and his generals provide the same range of sound bites the US neocon establishment does through their mules, they are full of hubris and make believe reality. Without US presence in the area, Israel is an insignificant factor, given the fact that Russia supports full Syrian retaliatory strikes in case of zio aggression. Syrian armed forces have been re equipped with more modern weapons, precision SS missiles, and a powerful air defense network equipped with an array of effective weapons against any generation 4 and 5 aircraft.
America has signed to f* off from Syria, good riddance now Turkey will f* their terrorists soon.
You know, using f* off too much is a sign of very low IQ. :)
Thanks PZ, I also can’t read this one.
Whats an even greater sign of intellectual inferiority is hiding behind a pro Russian website fearing any kind of dissent thus asking them to leave to not burst your glasbubble.
You are the definition of a snowflake
Turkeys have been kissing Zionist arse for 60 years and why did the pig Erdogan not do anything when Zionists slaughtered 9 Turkeys on the Mavi Marmara and it was not even Xmas or Thanksgiving?
– “While the main stream media is panicking over U.S. forces withdrawal from Syria and the supposed threat it poses to Israel’s security, the statements of Netanyahu and Lt. Gen. Eisekot indicate that Israel has no problem at all with this step” -. Read between the lines time, what does this mean. For me it means a deal has already been done. Putin MUST have brokered some sort of mutually acceptable security pact between Israel and Iran or the US wouldn’t be pulling out at all.
Read between the lines time, what does this mean. For me it means the US will not leave. In the military, saying yes sir and then doing what you want is an old tactic, especially if the guy giving the orders is a civilian.
The war was largely privatized – and will be now even more privatized. Anyway 30 to 90 days is not now. Lot’s of thing can happen, and it looks like with the Mnuchin call to the bank CEO’s, that the cabal is calling in the perfect storm…
http://www.voltairenet.org/article204373.html https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-23/plunge-protector-mnuchin-reportedly-called-bank-ceos-calm-markets-ahead-monday-open
There’s a war happening in the US too you know, it’s a war between the old system, the LGBTQI way of doing things, the system that allowed the US to rape anyone they wanted to against their will whenever they wanted to, or the new system, the system that only rapes you if you’re stupid enough to let them, that’s Trump’s new way of doing things, if you haven’t figured it out yet you never will.
The Chinese call the old US homo system for the “beggar thy neighbour and zero sum” system.
I hadn’t heard the term before but it describes most US economic agreements with other countries perfectly, but even worse, their whole financial system depends on it due to the world’s use of US petro dollars, meaning their whole financial system is only just a beggar thy neighbour system. It only works Ok until everyone else starts realizing they have the bad end of the deal and start wanting more. We’re nearly at that point now with the US.
IDF feeling lonely? Still hope that US will defend Israeli’s crimes? Wake uo Shlomo! Your own masters are throwing you under the bus (as they did so many times in the history).
hahaha Zionist swine are running scared shitless :)
he can’t really say anything else but behind the scene, frantic search for something tangible that can save israel from being de-constructed and de-recognized and boycotted/divested/sanctioned to kingdom come.
trump started what he promised his voters in the election campaign, viz. to end the wars. Bolton and pompous most certainly had a bad day, which is something to cherish.
merry friggin x-mas
Behind the scenes these desperados are plotting the mother of all false “chemical attacks”. Will Trump be stupid enough to fall for this a third time? Then there is the Israel/US/EU/NATO/Kiev Neo-Nazis plan to ramp up the killing in the Donbass. threaten the Kerch Bridge and Russian sovereignty. Any day now, we’ll see what these gangsters are up to.
Israel will continue to back up SDF and Kurdistan as the only other democracy in ME….for freedom.
Israel better make peace with Iran before they get a jolly good kicking. Assad will now be the unchallenged leader of the Free Arab World, apart from the stooge “leaders” whose days are now numbered. Israel needs to change sides and seek forgiveness from God and the Arabs they have persecuted since 1947. As the Christians would say, it is not too late for the Israeli sinners to repent.