At least three rockets fired from Syria hit the Israeli Golan Heights over the weekend. The incident was initially downplayed as errant mortar fire, mere "spillover" from Syria's ongoing civil war.
But top military officials admitted a day later that the attack was likely intentional, and was just the latest in a string of escalating provocations.
A senior officer in the IDF Northern Command told Israel's NRG news portal:
"It was not mortar shells or artillery shells, but rockets that hit our territory. The chance that it was unintentional is very low: There were no battles taking place in the area from which the rockets were launched.
"It is very possible that this is a message from Syria. Our main fear at the moment is that this will become routine, because we have noticed the region heating up since March."
Israel responded to the weekend attack by destroying three Syrian army artillery positions.
But, as the above officer noted, should the cross-border incidents continue, Israel will be compelled to take more drastic action.
As new settlement construction gets underway in Israel’s disputed territories, a fresh wave of condemnation is expected.
Accusations that the Jewish state is practicing apartheid – supposedly over its ‘illegal occupation’ and ‘treatment of the Palestinians’ – will inevitably be trotted out, adding fuel to the fire of a Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment (BDS) movement masquerading as a compassionate supporter of oppressed Palestinians, but in actual fact demonstrating another form of anti-Semitism.
Before tackling this gross misuse of the ‘apartheid’ tag, it’s worth saying that BDS has taken a series of knocks of late – both in the courts and in the legislative arena. In Spain, for example, 24 legal rulings and expert opinions were made against the movement and, in France, one court decision ordered that a financial penalty be imposed on BDS activists demonstrating outside supermarkets calling on consumers to boycott Israeli products.
The irony of the Jewish ‘apartheid’ claim is that Ramadan Dabbash, head of a Palestinian village in Jerusalem, says almost all the city’s Arabs would prefer to live peacefully under Israeli administration.
It is the Palestinian leaders, he said, who destroy the chances for peace with non-stop incitement of Palestinian youth, diversion of funds to terror and a resultant lack of economic growth in Palestinian-controlled areas.
Also on the BDS front, I recall that Boris Johnson, on his last tour of Israel, condemned a boycott proposed by what he termed “corduroy-jacketed academics”. He said: “I cannot think of anything more foolish than to say you want to have any kind of sanctions or divestment or boycott against a country that, when all is said and done, is the only democracy in the region; and that is the only place, in my view, which has an open, pluralistic society.”
I need to add that, just because I commend a politician on his/her stand for Israel doesn’t mean I applaud them wholeheartedly or necessarily regard them as morally superior. But it is a chink of light, as the Bible is quite clear – those who bless Israel will themselves be blessed (Genesis 12.3).
To make Iran powerful enough to destroy Israel, they would need what? An atomic weapon of course. But how could they make one without the foundation fuel, uranium? Simple, give them some of ours. But it couldn't be done with a Craig's List post. It had to have the cover of a "legitimate" business transaction with someone other than the Obama administration. Who would be the best scoundrel to accomplish this task? Hillary Clinton of course. Why was she named Secretary0 of State anyway? Certainly not for her executive experience.
Enter Uranium One, a mining company with headquarters in Toronto, Ontario, Canada owning one of the largest mining operations of United States uranium. Acquire them and you would have access to the mother load of uranium. Who bought Uranium One and why was it for sale? Rosatom, a Russian State-owned enterprise, through its subsidiary ARMZ Uranium Holding, bought the company. Why it was for sale has not been reported.
Meanwhile Clinton, being no fool when it comes to rackets, demanded some "skin" in the game from the buyers and sellers before she and Obama would approve of the sale. The Mafia's got nothing compared to the Clintons.
So, the Russians (buyers) began funneling money to the Clintons through speech fees and direct payments to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium One Board Members (sellers) began forking over $145 million to the Clinton foundation, and presto, the sale is approved.
And funnier still was President Obama simultaneously hashing out, in secret, a letter of "understanding" to allow, guess who... Iran, to continue its nuclear reactor activity unsupervised. No inspectors allowed. Some deal right? And any deal that binds the United States to international duties is called a treaty. And that requires congressional approval. But somehow congress forgot that and led by Bob Corker, worked around the Constitutional duty to approve.
But hidden in all of this is the fact that Uranium One stock had been trading for as low as 10 cents a share just a few years before. The price of the stock when sold? With the purchase of the company valued at $3.1 billion, the share price was about $7. Nice mark up and a serious return on their investment in the Clinton Foundation. And the Obama Justice Department quashed an active FBI investigation into this scandal through two terms in office.
Oh, and on a side note, how about the billions Obama released to the Iranians? Some estimates are upwards of $33 billion. Was there anything Obama wouldn't do to further Iran's goals?
And now we find that Rosatom has, through Canada, where Uranium One was headquartered, shipped yellow cake uranium out of our country without a license to do so. Also on Obama's watch. Where did this yellow cake uranium finally end up once it left our country and most likely shipped to Russia?
Obama "Gifts" Iran With Massive Uranium Shipment From Russia Sufficient "For More Than 10 Nuclear Bombs"
In what amounts to an 11th hour "gift" by the outgoing Obama administration to Tehran's leadership to keep the country, which on Sunday was involved in yet another shooting incident with a US destroyer, content and compliant with Obama's landmark "Nuclear deal", the AP reported that Iran is to receive a huge shipment of natural uranium from Russia to compensate it for exporting tons of reactor coolant. The move was approved by the outgoing U.S. administration and other governments "seeking to keep Tehran committed to a landmark nuclear pact."
The Mullahs who head the religious dictatorship eagerly anticipate an apocalypse leading to the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam, or Mahdi, who will then establish a global caliphate, leading to a perfect world. If they are on the receiving end of the Uranium One ore, they might end up with the means to bring about at least the first step of the prophecy, and target the “little Satan” of Israel, next door to their client in Damascus.
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