(This is a work in progress. It is being published now due to the sensitivity of information contained herein.)
TEL AVIV, Israel - Things appear to be ratcheting up on about day four or day five of World War III. According to DEBKAfile analyses, Israel's enemies appear to be gathering their forces, possibly in (final) preparations for an attack against Israel.
TEL AVIV, Israel - Things appear to be ratcheting up on about day four or day five of World War III. According to DEBKAfile analyses, Israel's enemies appear to be gathering their forces, possibly in (final) preparations for an attack against Israel.
On the Syrian side of things, they appear to be getting ready to launch a war front against Israel in the Golan Heights area. The Golan Heights area, also called the Golan, was seized by Israel from Syria during the Six-Day war in 1967. The Six-Day War comprised of Israel against Russia and Israel's Arab neighbors in which Israel's enemies suffered an absolutely humiliating defeat, and Israel more than doubling her size, including taking over some of the Sinai peninsula, although this was eventually given back to Egypt in a peace treaty that followed the war.
According to Hizbullah Deputy Secretary Sheikh Naim Qassem, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is serious about opening a front against Israel from the Golan Heights area, and that it only remains to be done.(1) This echoes recent statements by Assad that he is facing 'popular pressure' to open a front against Israel in the Golan Heights area.
"There is clear popular pressure to open a new front of resistance in the Golan," Mr Assad told a Hezbollah TV channel.(2)
“There is clear popular pressure to open a new front of resistance in the Golan," Assad said in an interview with Al-Manar, the television channel of his ally, Lebanon's Shiite Hizbullah movement.(3)
He has further stated that there are several factors involved in the decision to open a war front against Israel, referring in part to the recent bombing of a shipment of weapons inside Syria.
“There are several factors, including repeated Israeli aggression," he said. "The next time Israel attacks, if it attacks, we will have a strategic response. A bombing against a bombing.”(3)
Israel is believed to be behind several recent bombing attacks against Syrian weapons sites. Israel is concerned that amid the growing chaos in Syria, unconventional weapons will be transferred to Hizbullah or fall into the hands of rebel Islamists (Muslims - insert mine). It is also concerned that Assad may try to unite the country by staging an attack against Israel.(3)
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has pledged to send tens of thousands of volunteers into Syria to fight along side the forces of Bashar al-Assad.(1) Syria, he says, "is the rear guard of the resistance (Hezbollah’s fight with Israel), its backbone, and the resistance cannot stay with its arms folded when its rear guard is exposed. “We are idiots if we do not act.”(4)
Syrian forces launched an assault on Qusayr on Sunday but are still meeting with fierce resistance from the rebels, as the town provides an important supply line for arms and volunteers from nearby Lebanon.
Qusayr is a key prize for Mr Assad’s forces because of its strategic location between Damascus and the Mediterranean coast, the Alawite heartland of the embattled president’s regime.(4)
"Syria has real friends in the region and in the world that will not let Syria fall into the hands of America, Israel, or Takfiri (extreme jihadi) groups. How will this happen? Details will come later," he said in a broadcast on Hezbollah's al-Manar TV channel. "I say this based on information....not wishful thinking."(5)
Some of those friends appear to be Iran. Iran's Deputy Foreign Ministry Hossein Amir-Abdollahian warned Monday that unless the flow of fighting strength and arms to the Syrian rebels is halted, Syrian ruler Bashar Assad would launch a second from the Golan against Israel.(1) This statement, when combined with al-Assad's statement about 'real pressure' to open a front against Israel in the Golan, appears to suggest that Assad of Syria, Iran, and Nasrallah with Hezbollah, WANT the flow of weapons and aid to Syrian rebels to continue so they can use that as an excuse to attack and/or invade Israel.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has pledged to send tens of thousands of volunteers into Syria to fight along side the forces of Bashar al-Assad.(1) Syria, he says, "is the rear guard of the resistance (Hezbollah’s fight with Israel), its backbone, and the resistance cannot stay with its arms folded when its rear guard is exposed. “We are idiots if we do not act.”(4)
Syrian forces launched an assault on Qusayr on Sunday but are still meeting with fierce resistance from the rebels, as the town provides an important supply line for arms and volunteers from nearby Lebanon.
Qusayr is a key prize for Mr Assad’s forces because of its strategic location between Damascus and the Mediterranean coast, the Alawite heartland of the embattled president’s regime.(4)
"Syria has real friends in the region and in the world that will not let Syria fall into the hands of America, Israel, or Takfiri (extreme jihadi) groups. How will this happen? Details will come later," he said in a broadcast on Hezbollah's al-Manar TV channel. "I say this based on information....not wishful thinking."(5)
Some of those friends appear to be Iran. Iran's Deputy Foreign Ministry Hossein Amir-Abdollahian warned Monday that unless the flow of fighting strength and arms to the Syrian rebels is halted, Syrian ruler Bashar Assad would launch a second from the Golan against Israel.(1) This statement, when combined with al-Assad's statement about 'real pressure' to open a front against Israel in the Golan, appears to suggest that Assad of Syria, Iran, and Nasrallah with Hezbollah, WANT the flow of weapons and aid to Syrian rebels to continue so they can use that as an excuse to attack and/or invade Israel.
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