{"id":179721,"date":"2021-02-22T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=179721"},"modified":"2024-09-23T14:39:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T13:39:15","slug":"the-greater-danger-of-israeli-provocations-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/02\/the-greater-danger-of-israeli-provocations-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greater Danger of Israeli Provocations in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

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18 Feb 2021 – <\/em>Continued airstrikes carried out by Israeli warplanes in Syria presents \u2013 at face value \u2013 an obvious and persistent threat to Syria. In a wider context, the threat runs much deeper and extends to Syria\u2019s allies in Tehran.<\/p>\n

Israel has been an eager participant in the US-led proxy war on Syria beginning in 2011. It has provided safe-haven and support for Western-backed militants along and within its borders. It has also at various junctures carried out airstrikes in Syria in a bid to impede Damascus\u2019 ability to reestablish peace and stability within Syria\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n

And according to US policy papers written before and after the beginning of the 2011 proxy war against Syria \u2013 Washington had long ago slated Israel a role in undermining and aiding in the overthrow of the Syrian government \u2013 and admittedly as part of a wider strategy to isolate and eventually target Iran.<\/p>\n

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