Written by Aleksandr Khamchikhin; Originally appeared at VPK, translated by AlexD
Israel and Syria are eternal enemies. The last war between them took place 36 years ago, but nothing prevents it to happen again, and at any moment.
For Damascus, the situation is extremely unfavourable because the country and its army are extremely exhausted by years of civil war. And vice versa, very advantageous in the sense that on the Syrian territory there is a contingent of the Russian Armed Forces.
Syria fought against the Jewish state in the first Arab-Israeli war as part of the coalition, in the Six Day War of 1967, in October 2073 and alone in the Lebanese 1982. All of them were lost, although each time Israel had more problems.
During the current civil war in Syria, Tel Aviv has long pretended to remain neutral. In fact, it supported all opponents of Assad, including radical Sunni Islamists. Now it is impossible to hide it – too many Syrian troops seized from opposing groups various Israeli medicines, devices, equipment and even weapons. Such a position is completely inept, if not insane. Its cause is its irrational hatred of Iran, Assad’s most important ally, which has reached national paranoia. This is despite the fact that Iran has never fought with the Jewish state, and Tehran’s anti-Israeli rhetoric, as it is easy to understand, is aimed almost exclusively at the domestic audience. Yes, Iran-backed Shi’ite Hezbollah is occasionally fighting from the Lebanese territory, but it is impossible to consider it a real threat, their capabilities are too disparate, especially now that the organization is deeply involved in the Syrian war and suffered serious losses. The threat to Israel from the Sunni Palestinians, supported by the Arabian monarchies, is much more serious. But Israel is already almost openly friends with them (primarily with Wahhabi Saudi Arabia) against Iran.
Over the past years, the Israeli Armed Forces (“Ally on two fronts”) have repeatedly launched air and missile attacks on Syrian territory. In this case, it was officially stated that the goals are the Iranian formations, and at the same time air defence facilities. The results of these attacks are extremely difficult to determine. The Syrian Air Force (“Damascus and his Chariot”) lost one anti-aircraft missile gun system “Pansir-S1” and even some elements of the various SAMs. In addition, the Israeli Air Force “Patriot” shot down in 2014 over the Golan Heights an SU-24 bomber and in 2018 it attacked an SU-22 attack aircraft of the Syrian Air Force. In turn, the Israeli Air Force in February 2018 lost a fighter-bomber F-16I, shot down, apparently by an S-200. The Syrians also claim a large number of Israeli missiles shot down, but it is not possible to verify this.
Currently, the Syrian Army has from 1700 to 2600 tanks, of which 1100 to 1200 T-72 and about 30 T-90, the rest are the ancient T-55 and T-62. Israel has about 900 Merkava MK3/4 tanks and about 800 Merkava MK1/2 in storage. Ancient “Centurions” and “Magahi” (M48/60), not to mention the “Tyrants” (trophy Soviet machines T-54/55/62), apparently completely recycled. That is, the quantitative superiority, oddly enough, is still on the side of Syria, although the quality, of course, is on Israel’s side. Damascus has 1300 to 1700 BMPs-1/2. Tel Aviv has just over 300 BMPs “Namer” and “Achzarit”, and these machines are on tank chassis and are much more steady in battle than the usual BMPs. Regular APCs (Soviet in the SAA, American M113 in the IDF) in both parties are actually taken out of combat units, these machines either are held in the rear groups, or in storage, because they do not fit for modern warfare; they are too vulnerable.
Self-propelled artillery (Soviet 2S1 and 2S3 for Syria, American M109 for Israel) is approximately equal in number and age (production of the 60s and 70s). The same applies to towed artillery, only in Damascus it is in service, and in storage in Tel Aviv. Syria has numerical superiority in jet artillery, and all of it is combat ready. Israel has in the ranks only American M270 MLRS. Syrian “Hurricanes”, “Tornadoes” and TOS-1 with them, in general are quite comparable in terms of combat characteristics. Both sides have a large number of portable anti-tank missile launchers. Israel has the most modern “Spikes” in several versions; Syria has a wide stock from the ancient “Malytka” to the latest “Kornet”.
With a small quantitative superiority of he Syrians. the Israelis have a qualitative advantage, whom over and above always totally out do all Arabs in terms of combat and morale and psychological training of personnel. There is no reason to assume that the situation has changed now. In addition, the Syrians have many military personnel killed or deserted, and the current army is a very peculiar conglomerate of old regular units and new, in fact, volunteer formations. This is the civil war army, not the traditional Armed Forces. On the other hand, those who continue to fight for Assad, already have good combat experience and high motivation. In addition, they are inspired by the victories of the last three years. The IDF has not fought a major war for a while, so lost its once excellent experience and fighting spirit, which was confirmed during the Lebanese war of 2006. At a minimum, the situation has not improved since then, as some Israeli officers and generals have said with great concern recently. In addition, this summer, Israel did not prevent Syrian troops from defeating Islamist groups in the province of Quneitra, adjacent to the Golan Heights. Thus, the potential advanced foothold in the Syrian territory has been lost.
After 1982, both armies got used to fighting in conditions of complete domination in the air. For Israel, it even became a certain problem; it is the fascination with American concepts of “contactless”, pure air war led to the erosion of previously impeccable fighting spirit. Because of this, Jews began to have problems even with Palestinians and Hezbollah on land. But the Syrian army is still stronger in both. Accordingly, if Israel decides on a large-scale military campaign in Syria, it is highly unlikely that the Merkava will go to Damascus. The IDF will try to limit itself to a purely air war. Moreover, here Israel has an overwhelming superiority.
Heil Ha-Avir is armed with about 60 F-15A/B/C/D fighters, 25 F-15E strike fighters, at least 220 F-16C/D/I, as well as 12 F-35A. In storage, there is still more than 100 F-15A/V and F-16A/B, one hundred “Phantoms”, several dozen “Kirov” to one hundred “Skyhawks”, which, however, are unlikely to be needed. To this are added 45 attack helicopters AH-64A/D “Apache” and about 30 AN-1 “Cobra”, as well as an indefinite number (the count goes to hundreds) of tactical ground-based missiles “Laura”, “Extra”, Spike”-NLOS and others.
Ground air defense of Israel includes its own missile defense system “Arrow” (3 batteries) and “Iron Dome” (10 batteries), the American air defense system “Patriot” (7 batteries), the old American air defense system “Advanced Hawk” (up to 17 batteries) plus hundreds of short-range air defense (MANPADS “Stinger”, anti-aircraft armoured trucks, anti-aircraft guns).
In Syria, half a dozen SU-24 bombers and 45 MiG-29 fighters are considered relatively modern, even if they were released in the late 80s. Formally, apparently, several SU-22, MiG-21, fighter-bombers, MiG-23, MiG-25, kind of an attack aircraft L-39Z are listed in the Air Force. How many of them are in flying condition, it is extremely difficult to tell. The important thing is that all this, the 60s and 70s aircraft are the same age as those “Skyhawks”, “Kirovs” and “Phantoms”, which in Israel are in deep storage without any prospects of return to the system, even in the event of a major war. It is quite obvious in the repulsing of the latest Israeli raid involved only Syrian ground air defenses, even the MiG-29 did not take to the air. If in a ground collision, the T-55 can also hit someone, then in an air battle, the MiG-21 and MiG-23 will be for Jewish pilots just targets regardless of their number.
Syria has up to 80 Mi-24 combat helicopters and French AS342L, but they can theoretically be useful only in the event of an invasion of the country by Israeli ground forces, in an air war they are useless.
Syria’s reliance is in the ground air defense. Formally, it is still very large, but, alas, it is also generally very out-dated. The number of divisions of the Soviet SAMs S-75, S-125, S-200, “Square” can exceed one hundred, but to put it mildly, not all of them are combat-ready. The same can be said about the short-range SAMs (“Arrow-1”, “Arrow-10”, “Wasp”) and the anti-aircraft armoured trucks “Shilka”, of which there are several hundred. There are at least a thousand different MANPADS. The real combat assets are three or fours divisions of “Bukov” and 35 anti-aircraft missile and gun systems “Carapace-S1”. But that is not enough. If Israel starts to fight seriously, it will press the Syrian with “air-to-surface” and “surface-to-surface” missiles until complete destruction, after which Israeli aircraft will be able to fly over Syria almost freely, losses even in the worst case for Israel will be in the single digits. In February 2018, the Israelis, frankly, got a little carried away, and for this reason lost an F-16I, and most likely this will not happen again.
At sea, Israel’s superiority over Syria is no less overwhelming than in the air, but it is unlikely to significantly affect the course of hostilities.
But a Russian group can have a huge impact of them, located in the northwest of Syria. To suppress the ground-based air defense at the Khmeimim Air Base will be not so easy, because the latest AAMs and SAMs are based there. Russia, unlike Syria, has very effective means of EW, and the SU-35S fighters are much better in terms of combat characteristics of the MiG-29 of earlier modifications available to Damascus. If the Russian pilots have no experience of air battles, the same applies to the Israeli counterparts; the last time air battles their predecessors took part in was in 1982, and none of those pilots are still in the ranks of course. Now in Syria, there are only a few SU-35S, but they are able to inflict losses on Israeli aircraft, besides additional fighters can be rush from Russia, and not only SU-35S, but also SU-30SM and SU-27SM3.
Obviously, the Israelis will not be the first to strike our group. But Russia, philosophically observing the limited single raids on Syrian facilities, may change its mind in the event of massive attacks that will call into question the results of the military campaign, especially in light of the tragedy with the IL-20. Of course, the Russian Air Force and Navy will not be the first to hit the territory of the Jewish state, but may join the air defense of Syria. And then, the losses of Heil Ha-Avir will not be in the single digits, a certain number of pilots will be captured, and such things for the Israeli society is extremely painful. In addition, there will be extremely unpleasant political consequences for both sides, the possibility of involving the US in the war (which is extremely undesirable for Russia and Syria) and the creation of an open tight military alliance between Moscow and Tehran, which is completely unacceptable for Israel and the United States.
A very peculiar situation is created from the reception from Russia of a three-battalion regiment (8 launchers per division) of S-300PM by Syria. For this reason, comments have already been made in the range of “now the sky of Syria is securely covered” to “the appearance of the S-300 will not affect the actions of the Israeli Air Force”. Truth, as usual, is in the middle. Strictly speaking, the Israelis can suppress the “three hundred” described above by the simple way of ammunition depletion, followed by a blow to the empty launchers and other elements of the SAMs. But this will require a very different outfit forces than the previous raids. If Syria with the help of Russia will use modern means of EW, a significant part of the Israeli missiles may miss for this reason, to waste on them anti-aircraft guided missiles are not necessary, and then the ammunition depletion can happen earlier in Tel Aviv than Damascus. Israel may try to use against the S-300 the “invisible. F-35, but if suddenly at least one such aircraft is shot down, it will cause an acute internal crisis in Israel itself and in its relations with the United States, because it will discredit the latest American aircraft. If Israel is able to strike at least partially a successful blow to the S-300 itself or to objects under its cover, it will discredit the “three hundred” and the Russia Air Defense system as a whole, which is why Moscow will be very offended. In addition, for quite a long time in the cockpits of the S-300 next to the Syrian soldiers will sit Russians, and the Israeli strike could lead to their death. Which will offend Moscow even more. In this case, at least the above-described scenario of joint work of the Syrian and Russia air defense will be involved.
There is a situation unfolding where for Israel success and failure are almost identical, as they lead to a common military and political defeat. Understanding these circumstances will be a strong deterrent to all parties to a potential conflict. Most likely, Israel will continue to deliver single strikes against Iranian forces in Syria at the maximum distance from the positions of the “three hundred” (this is how the first Israeli strike was carried out since the deployment of the S-300 in Syria on the night of November 30, on targets in south of Damascus, obviously beyond the reach of this SAM) and at the same time convince Russia to achieve the withdrawal of these forces. Moscow is not against limiting Tehran’s influence in Syria, but a complete break with it is impossible, at least until the end of the war. The probability of the continuation of such “swings” still seems much higher than the fifth Syrian-Israeli war.
It is not in any way, a ‘civil war’. It is an attempted ‘regime change’ operation. A war by proxy, using the faux ‘Islamist’ terrorist mercenary ‘ISIS’ or Daesh. A janus force of which is trained, funded and supported by the zionist infested U.S. at the behest of ‘israel’. This is meant to destabilize Syria in the hopes ‘israel’ may benefit via its expansion into the region. See the “Oded Yinon Plan”. A failed wet dream of zionist design.
isis is more or less something of the past so israel can’t rely on its proxy force, which reduces it to be a single force against a number of opponents, such as Iraq, Lebanon/Hezbollah, Syria and Iran (being backstopped by Russia) and my guess is that if shove comes to push you will find certain of the gulf-states in the brew as well. not to mention the Russian ICBMs from the Caspian Sea aimed at tel aviv and which no iron dome ever is going to stop, should it get really hairy. so basically, israel is facing some serious existential threats and rather than die in a war it can’t win, it should amend its ways and stop being a nuisance stealing land and property from the Palestinians and return the stolen land to the original owners and discontinue Gaza, the concentration camp a la Ravensbruck that israel is running for some 2 million Palestinians. it’s never too late to amend your ways and that is what israel will have to do on the double or, israel is toast!
if fif ififififififfififififififfififififififififfifififififififif thats a lot of if´s in that article……lets put it simple…… If Israel (they wont to 99.9%) would seriously launch a major attack on syria……only nuclear weapons can save this satanic entity from destruction……anybody who understands anything of the military and the geography must come to this conclusion……as was mentioned in a tiny bit in the above article, israeli generals are well aware of their dilema……israel is a tiny fucking nation, and a war with SAA/Hez/Iran/hamas will be fought exclusively through missiles,rockets,artillery and bombs……and there is nothing exept for a nuckear attack on the leaderships of their adversavaries that could save them…..with an average interception success rate of 20 %(these are official israeli numbers for the 2006 confrontation with hezbollah-22% interception rate), and 100,000 missiles heading for israel = approx. 80,000 missiles will hit their target, hence israel is devastated…that is proven again by the 2nd strike options by them israelis through their dolphin class submarines(that were given to them free of charge by them stupid occupied german donks) with their nuclear jericho missiles.
So all in all this article should have been written “upside down”……..yes them jews want a war, need a war….but as usual, and as history has shown over and over again….The JEW always trys to look like the small tiny DAVID, who fought against the big gigantic goliath…ofcourse its the opposite, but its the deception that counts, espeically after the wars……….the jews are trying everything, together with their stooges in all nations to start a war between east and west…thats their ultimate goal, their agenda…..folks tend to forget history on our planet on a regular basis….when was this ultimate evil entity created??????????????????? YES after WW2 1948 when was the UN created??? 1945 when was NATO created????? 1949……… if u dont see the pattern u r fucking blind or a dirty satanic jew or a british crown prick
1945 UN 1948 ISRAEL 1949 NATO
and 1 more time for the donkeys and bs artists…. There is NO DIFFERENCE between a JEW and a ZIONIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Both believe in the Talmud , and i quote from it “all non jews are GOJIM, and all non jewish women are WHORES”
the word ZIONISM was created by them satanic jews, as a scapegoat, a patsy if u will,.officially in 1897….why…because in close to 99% of all nations, people were well aware who was the driving forces of evil on our planet..the jews……..they hated jews in north america(for a good reason…the rothshild banks in london and paris sponsored the civil war lololol)..
here is another history lesson..
18 july , Year 1290…..King Edward I of england banned ALL JEWS from the island…..and they stayed banned for 366 years……….. was he a nazi??? LOLOL i explained to u folks what the word really means…anyway its a pattern…..same with spain jews banned for hundreds of years..also nazis???
no …folks , people of our beautifull earth knew in the far past, who was the evil on our planet..the jews……only today..people have been brainwashed….no its not the jew…its the zionist hahahaha
kill all jews today…..and 99% of all problems we have on our planet will vanish by the end of the year.
There won´t be any war between Syria and Israel. Russia is allied with both and very eager to keep its balancing-leading role in the ME.
Russia is not allied with israel. Russia tolerates israel but no more and that means israel has some kind of free space but within clearly defined lines. breach those lines and israel will have Russia as an enemy and that it can’t afford. the S-300s in Syria is answer enough!
If You were not that stupid, You would know, what he mean.
Rest assured, friends of those Russians killed in the air base would be trigger happy not just the Syrian’s S300 ….
So far facts say it all . Israel dare not cross that line and actually begged Putin to allow them to fly without being shot down.
My guess is Putin or no Putin, those Russians SAM crews will fire .. Putin or No Putin.
Anyway everyone knows that Israel is showing of the ONLY power they have .. air power which has been proven beyond any shadow of doubt by the 2006 and current Yemeni war, to be useless to win wars.
That is why I say … in the next war, Hez or the rest would be fighting in Israeli towns
Unrealistic dreams of the worst kind too.
As others here, You only see one side of things there, because You have no idea about how we as west are.
USA will never allow that. Nato will support that, and Damaskus might a lake as well.
You are so so stupid and even insist and insist.
Babling nonsense, that You next time will go into Israeli towns – hahaha. You might, but a joke compared to, what will happen to You and Yours as spendable by You and for athers like experminating ants.
And Syria is as weak as ever. Your plans myst be for 2228 or something.
No realisme. You have no idea about, what You are up to.
Let me remind You thats Russia dont like Iranians as well. Syria has no ecponomic capasity. Iran has no economic and military capasity as well.
You cant even develllop the parts, Ypu have now for raised production but prefares to stay in the old days armed with old sovjet weapons, You cant handle.
And missiles – hahaha – Nice, but they never will win a war against Israel unless it has a support, You never seemes to handle.
German nazis with old tanks could and can take You out, if those nazis were allowed. You cant even handle tanks in warfare of that time.
Again you are babbling based on your figments of imagination of the power that was ,but not today.
Your post have been on assumtions and not based on facts. I based on hard facts that air force are useless in today’s war especially in ME. It can hurt but NEVER able to win a war if the soldiers on the ground are afraid to die.. The moment one tank got hit the entire tank force withdrew as proven many times even in Gaza.
Tell me how can Israel prevent fighters like Hezbollah plus Iranian, plus Syrians soldiers , plus other able to prevent the fight to be in Israel proper itself ? Air power ? Look at Yemen .. useless.
Come on … ASSAD with the support of Russia and Iran plus Hez can easily take on the US forces in Syria. US can bomb all they want with no effect . Facts.
Iran has said , get out or be forced out.
That’s the reason why US and Israel is doing what they are doing now … sanctions and using air power where Iranians and friends cannot reply .
Why Israel allowed their proxies terrorists to be defeated if they are so powerful?
Fact and fact .. yours nothing but past glory and assumptions. Fact is that Israel dare not even enter Lebanon now…or even Syria with S300 in range.
Russian weapons keep you guys at bay and can only fight when the opponents have only AK47s and rpgs to fight.
Crap only. It doesnt improve being repeated.
Is that the best you can do saying “Crap only” when you cannot refute even a single claim i posted .
That’s the kind of answers when you guys do not have answers.
Just prove to me that Israel is any match for say Hezbollah and actions they take other than using “untouchable” air power to reach Iranian and Hezbollah?
None… this goes to the US soldiers too. No contest .
WHAT glory? Any where they went they had their asses kicked and still the same scenario is playing today.
“Well he is definitely doing something with his ass, but it ain’t kicking.”
Israel has only one ally, the USA. Nobody likes troublemakers, and Israel is a troublemaker. Controlling the narrative in the press, does not alter the reality that Israel is a serial aggressor.
Apparently that’s all the ally they need. No one ever fucks with Israel. Despite all the hot air in this forum. As long as no one is stupid enough to try an invasion then it’s going to stay status quo.
I agree and are happy Internet cant send hot air from those unrealistic people.
They hardly know the rest of the world.
Wake up. israhell has already been f…ed.
Thats only partly true, but USA is the biggest economic power in economics and military skills. A Syrian pound hard is 12 grams :)
And You do forget, that many others dont like or dislike Israel. Thats not the same as non support being attacked. They are much more west even they look and behave more and more like Yours.
Some Iranian menthal health care center in Lebanon will be more then out of order by that.
“USA is the biggerst economic power?” Gosh … no dollar see if it is any power at all.
USA is now fighting for its survival losing in almost every areas from military to techonology … now trying to stop Hwawei… pathetic.
Moscow is not against limiting Tehran’s influence in Syria
It’s not Russia’s place to limit Iran’s anything in Syria, besides, unlike the Israelis & Americans, the IRCG actually fights terrorists in Syria and aids the SAA in doing so.
Ahh read again, not against is not the same as acting against. I think Russia’s position is that is a matter for Syria and Iran to decide.
I think that is what he meant, he’s not saying “Russia should butt out” he is saying that Russia is a good international citizen and doesn’t presume to dictate the actions of other sovereign nations.
“Israelis have a qualitative advantage, whom over and above always totally out do all Arabs in terms of combat and morale and psychological training of personnel.” The 2006 war demonstrated the polar opposite of the above. The numerically inferior Hezb. infantry easily overcame the Israelis. Elite Israeli squads were pinned down immediately after arrival. They were begging for evacuation.
These days in 2006, Khazars had no Trophy APS. Today it is much more difficult to destroy Merkava tank.
Has Trophy been tested in battle?
Yes they are modernized version but Syrians than and Syrians now are entirely different matter and technologically also upgraded thanks to Russians. Rusionic author is delusional regarding 2006 when in reality it showed that IDF is incapable fighting even moderate resistance that they faced from Hezballah.
Kornet D will penetrate any tank like a cat-hole-lick priest will penetrate a young boy.
One thing is certain, Zionist hovels will burn from Metulla to Ashkelon and all over occupied Palestine.
SAA and their allies now got the fighting techniques that how to fight with Israeli terrorists. Now they are ready to give full blow to the terrorist headquarter of Israel in the Mideast.
Karate, Aerobics, Karaokie or what ?
The SAA is a battle hardened army, the IDF is mostly composed of middle class kids from the US,UK, Canada, Australia etc. They go to Israel to impress the girls back home, and most would burst into tears if their iPhone got damaged.
Israel has a handful of real soldiers and they have no battle experience, shooting stone throwers does not a soldier make.
I am not against any religion but so much I know that fake Jews “Israel” running thousands of child sex centers, human and drugs trafficking, slavery, casinos and other evil businesses in many countries. They are child butchers and land encroachers.
On permission visit dark websites to see that how these evils butchering our children.
You know its propaganda when the writer lauds all of israel’s shiny toys including the jew Merkava tanks – the very same “indestructible” tanks that Hezbollah managed to deftly obliterate back in 2006 – some 124 of them inside of 33 days. Fact is, israel’s size works against it and its enemies are now better armed and trained and more organized than ever before. Therefore, sayonara israel.
Is one of the writers you allude to Miroslav Beran above?
Never underestimate your enemies. Merkavas didn’t have -active protection systems back in 2006. and now they have. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophy_(countermeasure)
And Hezbollah already knows how to bust up the ‘new and improved’ dishwasher Merkava. Therefore I return the favor and say to you: never underestimate your enemy.
the usual side by side comparison of toys.
militarly, nothing new, nothing useful.
One detail is not commented in many actual articles: It is very difficult to destroy Khazarian Merkava tanks equipped with Trophy APS.
Hypothetically it is possible with Buk missile (is capable to hit ground targets too) or with ATGM equipped with EFP warhead – except TOW2E and some Swedish these are non existent in Syrian/Russian arsenals.
Briefly: Khazars have too much qualitative superiority. It is less costly to finish their Apartheid II regime the same way as Apartheid I regime: All world must know absurdity of Khazar imposed genocide against Semitic people and world wide boycott will break their Apartheid II regime.
A very ineffective genoside. I see millions of them. 12 mio. not even are at home more in Syria. You must be blind or probatly worse.
The vast majority are living right next to Syria…..in Turkey, Lebanon & Jordan! And it’s not 12 million at all, unless you are counting internally displaced….i.e living in other parts of Syria away from their home-towns
I didnt write that at all. I wrote 12 mio. not being in their homes, that includes externals as well as internals.
I wrote “not even at home in Syria”.
First class for You some from Dara are in tent in idlib ?
Or hit it with a bottle of undiluted battery acid, where the engine is and then it blows. But then you would not know this because you read in theory what others write not having a hands on experience.
My sisters once called You Pakkenstina.
One even put in child sex enters in as a plus or a minus ? Is it plug and play ?
A small old reminder could be that Israel took Egypt and Jordan before they took Syria.
Its also my impression that the Israelians forces always are optimized and the Syrians hardly are.
What does child sex with your sister have to do with anything? Scratch yesterday’s comment, I think you’re the one having an aneurysm…
Rob above used it here. I just copy paste, what he wrote ….
Just keep watching and do not blink. You will see some interesting things soon.
My genes are not to be old as Noah or even Methusalem and I have no Ark.
As mentioned by others, this article is somewhere between naive (at best) and complete tosh. Right at the start the author refers to a “civil war” which we all know is baloney. Plus stating that the (opportunist) Palestinian sunnis are much more of a threat to Israel than HZB is complete nonsense, with the battle-hardened latter now being widely recognised as one of the most powerful military organisations in the entire region. Comparing armaments is also verging on the pointless, as the Novorussian forces clearly demonstrated during the successive victories in the east of Ukraine, despite overwhelming disadvantages in manpower and firepower. Like the Syrians, they proved the ultimate decisive weapon that wins wars is the fighter on the battlefield, and those fighting for everything they believe in are much more likely to prevail over conscripts who fight on orders and salaries. Another example are the horrendous defeats inflicted on the Saudi-coalition in Yemen by the lightly armed but determined Houthis. Given the invaluable experience gained, updated powerful air-defenses and modern Russian weapons, the Syrian Arab Army and their allies are now far more powerful than Israeli IDF conscripts, and I believe Israel is fully aware of that fact.
The threat of the US attacking Russia could be neutralized by telling Israel that Russia would launch a massive nuclear attack against Israel and New York, if the US attacks Russia.
Is no need for nuclear attack. few well placed missiles will be sufficient. And russia is not the only player in case of a war between syria and the jews and allies.
Yes Russia must station short range nuclear iskandar missiles in Syria, at least 100, some within 10km or less of the border, with really big warheads, 100 megaton warheads, so large even if they are destroyed on the ground the explosion will be so large Israel would still be destroyed and other smaller Iskandars spread over Syria. Then target all places on the planet with large racist supremacist Jewish populations, New York, Switzerland, Paris. London etc. and keep a live target awareness of where all racist supremacist Jewish billionaires and trillionaires are along with their bunker hideouts in places like New Zealand for nuclear attack. Let them know any attack on Russia or its allies will be considered an all-out nuclear attack on Russia by the racist supremacist global Jewish confederate slave empire dictatorship, with an immediate Russian nuclear response to the targets listed above and there will be instant world peace, the end of NATO, the withdraw of Jewish Zio Nazis forces in Ukraine, withdraw of Zio ISIS Al-Cia-Da forces in Syria, USSA zio withdraw from Afghanistan etc. Again instant peace!!
or from a strategic point of view it’s better to have them loaded on ships in the Caspian Sea, loads of ICBM’s that can be directed a) against tel aviv and b) against riyadh (should mbs be stupid enough to buy into israel’s plan for Iran). and being located in the Caspian menas that israel can’t do much about it.
They already has hit You.
Does the authour understand how troops become veterans? The IDF is totally unaccustomed to people shooting back, their opponents have had years of combat expierence whilst Israel is murdering unarmed people in Gaza. Not quite the same when in stead of running away, the enemy starts shooting back and charging at you.
Times, they are a changin’.
Who ever wrote this article is typically holyshit educated. One thing for certain has absolute no idea what make a soldier a soldier, unless he is with the idea is a clean uniform and shinny boots.
“The IDF has not fought a major war for a while, so lost its once excellent experience and fighting spirit, which was confirmed during the Lebanese war of 2006.”(c) Rusionic elites are woorking hard to try and influence Russia from within and this article is one of examples.
The article is one sided in favor of the Jews. It doesn’t address, as the occupied Golan strikes on the IDF by the Syrian government coalition illustrate, Syrian attacks on Israel using a variety of stand off weapons.
The Syrian government coalition isn’t Hamas or Hezbollah. It’s national militaries with nuclear and state of the art and modernized conventional weapons. Russian and Iranian missile capabilities in Syrian hands can hammer IAF facillities signficantly impairing them or rendering them inoperable. The same goes for IDF surface to surface launchers.
The government of Israel knows this and is unlikely to provoke this type of conflict knowing the damage that it would suffer. Israel’s only hope would be to bring the US in on it’s side as an active participant in the hostilities beyond the types of resupply efforts that the US has limited itself to in the past. There are many in the US who would be opposed to this.
Too many factual errors and low content value to be worth reading and this apart from the spelling errors (more misspellings than those spelled correctly). Sorry to say but this article, if one could call it, should never have reach publication on Southfront!
I agree. even I dont care about spelling. The content is very low made by some, which like me has tanks made of matchboxes as child – and are remained aty that level .
It seemes the author not even know the Israelian military capasity.
I think it’s time to recognize jens holm as a troll trying to portray himself as half idiot/half moron and fully illiterate – working out of either a basement in haifa or a from say an ass’s ass end!
Agreed…..he’s a complete dickhead, always trolling on any pro-Syrian & Russian forums.
This analysis is obviously pro-Israel. Maybe to rise the dirty Israely moral (sense of superior race).
Yes, they think school, education, skills and hard work sholuld be rewarded as well as women should have education as well.
So if You compare with stay stupid and insists, Israeliens are a western superior race.
After 10 Years we in Denmark see fx more then 50% of the Syrians not even have some job after free school, free education, free choldcare, free hospitals and medical care. We also see one of tbhe highest crimerates by men from Syria. Kurds from there is lower but higher then ours.
there are excuses, but not many. 80% here work for others and are paid for, what they actually do. Syrians seemes to be very ineffective family business, where mingling men get cars when vomen get some flowers here and there. Syrian women are kept stupid and no nothing about having a paid job.
Those “Syrians” are terrorists scum that your government accepted. “moderate” jihadists that you NATO slaves love so much… you support them, so enjoy your new neighbors. I hope they all go to Denmark :D
Next time You should read before You wite.
12 mio having no home and parts of them comming here are terrorists ?
WRONG: There was no “Israeli first Israeli strike was carried out since the deployment of the S-300 in Syria on the night of November 30.” Never happened!
‘This is despite the fact that Iran has never fought with the Jewish state, and Tehran’s anti-Israeli rhetoric, as it is easy to understand, is aimed almost exclusively at the domestic audience. Yes, Iran-backed Shi’ite Hezbollah is occasionally fighting from the Lebanese territory, but it is impossible to consider it a real threat, their capabilities are too disparate, especially now that the organization is deeply involved in the Syrian war and suffered serious losses. The threat to Israel from the Sunni Palestinians, supported by the Arabian monarchies, is much more serious. But Israel is already almost openly friends with them (primarily with Wahhabi Saudi Arabia) against Iran”
This makes no sense to me?? Palestinians supported by Arabian Monarchies? which ones and what support? The author then contradicts himself to say Israel is friends with ‘them’ meaning the reason to be fearful of palestinians is no longer valid because the ‘support’ is from monarchies that are now ‘almost’ friends with Israel. Then the author goes on to say how Hezbollah defeated the IDF despite “it is impossible to consider it a real threat, their capabilities are too disparate” and this revealed the weakness of the IDF in showing that “lost its once excellent experience and fighting spirit, which was confirmed during the Lebanese war of 2006. Below I quote from the same article, actually same paragraph. Which is it, both cannot be true?:
“the Israelis have a qualitative advantage, whom over and above always totally out do all Arabs in terms of combat and morale and psychological training of personnel. There is no reason to assume that the situation has changed now.”
“The IDF has not fought a major war for a while, so lost its once excellent experience and fighting spirit, which was confirmed during the Lebanese war of 2006. so At a minimum, the situation has not improved since then, as some Israeli officers and generals have said with great concern recently.”
Believing their own lies it is what self destruct bullies and cowards.
israel being friendly with Mohammed bin Salman is entirely due to israel trying to goad mbs to participate in the war against Iran and which israel, thieving and murderous bastards, have no intention to participate in themselves except maybe a few aerial attacks with the israeli airforce’s oldest flying junk received from the disorganised and disunited states of exceptional stupid america. and when mbs realizes that he is a tool for israel’s plan to wipe out Iran, he will back out and return to the usual enmity against israel. and right he will be in that and that is regardless of how much trumpelidumps son in law, kuschner,
War can only be won by winning peoples hearts.