Syria flag (flickr).
Syria will not back down and Israel is playing with fire, Syria’s Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad said on September 1, commenting on the last Israeli strikes on Aleppo and Damascus.
The unprecedented strikes, which took place late on August 31, targeted Aleppo International Airport and allegedly the Damascus International Airport. The strikes caused some heavy material losses. However, there were no casualties.
It was reported that the Israeli strikes were a response to an Iranian weapons shipment that arrived earlier in Aleppo International Airport.
Syria has been the main supply route for Hezbollah for decades. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ships its most advanced weapons to the Lebanese group through the country with help from the Syrian military and intelligence. This provoked hundreds of attacks by Israel over the past ten years or so.
On the Twitter account of the Syrian Foreign Ministry, Mekdad said that Syria will not site idle in the face of Israel’s repeated attack, stressing that Israelis will pay the price “sooner or later”.
“Syria has persevered, and will stand, and will not back down from its positions,” the minister said. “The Israeli enemy must not bet or miscalculate, under the illusion that Syria will change its positions.”
Mekdad went on to hold the United States and other Western states responsible for encouraging Israel to escalate its attacks on Syria, which “threatens peace and security in the region and the world”.
Syria has been refraining from responding to Israeli attacks as a result of its fragile security and economic situation. Mekdad remarks suggest that could change soon.
A recent report by the New York Times said Damascus and its allies, who are known as the “Axis of Resistance,” have agreed to respond to Israeli attacks by striking US bases in Syria. The Syrian foreign minister may be hinting at this agreement. Iranian-backed forces in Syria and Iraq have already responded to the August 14 Israeli attack on Tartus and Damascus by targeting the US al-Tanf garrison, which is located in southeastern Syria, with a number of suicide drone on the very next day.
cowards prostiputes terrorists abortions will cry soon or later !!!
I’m sure Syria will eventually respond, but not before Biden rejoins the JCPOA, lifts sanctions on Iran and releases the hundreds of billions of apropiated Iranian funds. Assad will receive plenty of military and financial aid after that.
Per your name: Are you aware that Israel preferred Assad in office. They helped rebels on their border bercause it helped weaken the corrupt Syrian state. They were not banking on the rebels overthrowing Assad. Senior IDF officers were in favor of keeping him and there were many Syrian Jews who lobbied Israel to not get involved at all.
preferred Assad to whom?
Per your name (ActuallyZionist): Good job talking out of your asshole subhuman. The West and Zionists claimed openly they wanted to remove Assad from power. But that failed as Iran and Russia came to aid the Syrian government.
“But the reality is very different. Israel and ISIS have both—perhaps surprisingly—demonstrated high levels of restraint toward one another. Israel is not part of the international coalition fighting ISIS, and the jihadist group has yet to mount any serious attack on Israel-proper. ISIS rhetoric toward Israel is also limited in volume and even less brutal in tone compared to ISIS’ other enemies”
Zionists and Western countries were banking on rebels/Daesh to overthrow the Syrian government.
Your claims are funny, but again denying facts and lying is in your blood. If Western pigs failed to kill Gaddafi you would say the same thing as well.
Zionist-stand was involved in Syria from the start, and to this very day.
Also, fuk off you aren’t a Zionist bitch.
Who Gives a Fck what Israel thinks or wants. LMFAO. Iran has put all the chess pieces in place. 100 000 PMU’s are awaiting the invasion order
What are Syria’s options here? Any action they take hinges on them having effective air defenses to counter the inevitable Israeli response, and unfortunately Russia has not stepped in to provide the most advanced systems necessary to enable this.
The isreali apartheid regime wants to escalate the conflict in Syria so as to attract more Russia resources instead of them going to Ukraine. The isreali regime does what the US wants it to do and the US wants to overstretch Russian forces. Hezbollah are just an excuse for regime attacks on Syria.
The isreali apartheid regime is no real friend of Russia’s. Their bolshevik ancestors almost ruined Russia once already.
Whats Putin doing, speeking with his Jewisch friends !
As if Israel cares or will take any notice. For years they have been bombing Syria as they please and nothing ever happens too them in return. What is so different this time. Nothing. Just empty words from a country so depleted by war that it is no match for Israel and can not do anything other that use empty words that fall on deaf ears.
Israel has no other options besides bombing Syria. I play the Devil and ask you what have all Zionist attacks achieved so far? What would you do if you were in their shoes (the Syrian government)?
Israel wants a war, but it can’t be the one that started the war. That is what they have been trying to achieve for so long. Do you remember that fake chemical attack in Syria? NATO didn’t wait a sec and attacked Syria with no evidence.
The fact is, you can’t win every war, sometimes as hard as it is you just have to wait it out and achieve your other goals first. What do you think going to happen if Syria attacks Zionist-stan? NATO will attack Syria before any Zionist.
The West is so corrupt and they need WARS to stay in power, the world is not ignoring Syria and what the West is doing. They are taking notes and you can see how the world moving toward the East.
Zionist-stan can NEVER survive without the West.
Yes I have said many times on here or RT that Syria is in no position to attack Israel as the splitting of the country and fighting various factions has left her too weak to fight Israel on her own. She was the strongest country against Israel and the one that Israel feared which is why when they attacked Egypt taking out their aircraft on the ground , some say by agreement with Sadat. That is why the army assasinated him when he was watching a military parade when they jumped out of their trucks and shot the hell out of the stand where he and others were sitting. For all the bombings I agree they have achieved very little. Using the valleys of Lebanon for cover or coming in behind US planes or commercial flights show they haven’t the balls. Love to see a few get blown out of the sky as that is the only thing they understand. Without the US backup they would have been squashed years ago like the vermin they are.That the Jews and Palestinians lived together without problems for hundreds of years before the scum arrived elsewhere shows where the real problem lies.
https://telegra.ph/Prague-Manifesto-for-a-Free-Palestine-09-02
Syria and Russia you HAVE WARPLANES in Syria for every attack by the jews STRIKE back and bomb the Jews airports TIT FOR TAT so to speak as the JEWS cannot complain or do anything with Russia there and they will soon get the message to stop or else then Syria and Russia should shoot down those jewish planes launching such attacks. =Z=
Look at subhuman Zionists crying.
Zionist are getting kicked left and right, do you have any clue how pissed they were when even yanquis said fuk off from Lebanon’s gas fields – those Zionists were so fuking mad that the US didn’t back them at all. The yanquis said to them to talk… the yanquis told Zionist to reach a deal.
Iran’s nuclear deal is about to be signed again and you can see it however you want but to me, it is still good for Iran. Yes, I know Iran can help with the energy crisis and that’s why the US and EU pushing to sign the deal and all that.
It is not going away, will get worse, only option coordinated all out attack.