{"id":30019,"date":"2013-06-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=30019"},"modified":"2015-05-06T12:52:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T11:52:56","slug":"syria-israel-is-losing-the-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2013\/06\/syria-israel-is-losing-the-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria – Israel Is Losing the Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the last week we have been following British and French\u2019s desperate attempts to push for a military intervention in Syria. It is far from being a secret that both British and French government are dominated by the Jewish Lobby. In Britain it is the ultra Zionist CFI (Conservative Friends of Israel) – apparently 80% of\u00a0 Britain\u2019s conservative MPs are members of the pro Israeli Lobby. In France the situation is even more devastating, the entire political system is hijacked by the forceful CRIF<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But in case anyone fails to grasp why the Jewish Lobby is pushing for an immediate intervention, Debka, an Israeli news outlet provides the answer. Seemingly, the Syrian army is winning on all fronts. Israel\u2019s military and geo-political calculations are proved to be wrong.<\/p>\n

According to Debka<\/a>, \u201cthe battle for Damascus is over\u201d. The Syrian army had virtually \u201cregained control of the city in an epic victory\u201d.\u00a0 The rebels, largely mercenaries,\u00a0 have lost the battle they \u201ccan\u2019t do much more than fire sporadically. They can no longer launch raids, or pose threats to the city centre, the airport or the big Syrian air base nearby.\u2028The Russian and Iranian transports constantly bringing replenishments for keeping the Syrian army fighting can again land at Damascus airport after months of rebel siege.\u201d<\/p>\n

But it isn\u2019t just the capital. Debka reports that \u201cHezbollah and Syrian units have tightened their siege on the rebels holding out in the northern sector of al Qusayr; other (Syrian army) units have completed their takeover of the countryside around the town of Hama; and a third combined Syrian-Hizballah force has taken up positions around Aleppo.\u201d<\/p>\n

Debka maintains that senior IDF officers criticized the Israeli defense minister (<\/i>Moshe <\/i>Ya’alon) who \u201cmislead\u201d the Knesset a few days ago estimating that \u201cBashar Assad controlled only 40% of Syrian territory.\u201d\u00a0 Debka suggests that Israeli defense Minister drawn on a \u201cflawed intelligence assessment and were concerned that the armed forces were acting on the basis of inaccurate intelligence.\u201d Debka stresses, \u201cerroneous assessments\u2026 must lead to faulty decision-making.\u201d<\/p>\n

Debka is clearly brave enough to admit that Israeli military miscalculations may have lead to disastrous consequences. It reports, \u201cthe massive Israeli bombardment of Iranian weapons stored near Damascus for Hezbollah, turned out a month later to have done more harm than good. It gave Bashar Assad a boost instead of weakening his resolve.\u201d<\/p>\n

Debka is obviously correct. It doesn\u2019t take a genius to predict that an Israeli attack on an Arab land cannot be accepted by the Arab masses, not even by Assad\u2019s bitterest Arab opponents.<\/p>\n

Debka maintains that the \u201cintelligence focus on military movements in Syria especially around Damascus to ascertain that advanced missiles and chemical weapons don\u2019t reach Hezbollah laid to a failure of in detecting major movement by Hezbollah militia units towards the Syrian-Israeli border.\u201d<\/p>\n

Israel is now facing a new reality.\u00a0 It is facing Hezbollah reinforcements\u00a0 streaming in from Lebanon towards the Golan heights and its border with Syria.<\/p>\n

Israel, Debka concludes,\u00a0 will soon find itself\u00a0 \u201cface to face for the first time with Hezbollah units equipped with heavy arms and missiles on the move along the Syrian-Israeli border and manning positions opposite Israel\u2019s Golan outposts and villages.\u201d<\/p>\n

Debka is correct to suggest that instead of \u201cgrowing weaker, Iran\u2019s Lebanese proxy is poised to open another warfront and force the IDF to adapt to a new military challenge from the Syrian Golan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rather than The Gurdian or the Le Monde, <\/i>it is actually the\u00a0 Israeli Debka that helps us to grasp why Britain and France are so\u00a0 desperate to intervene. Once again, it is a Zionist war which they are so eager to fight.<\/p>\n

Sadly enough, it isn\u2019t The Guardian or The New York Times that is there to reveal the latest development in Syria and expose Israeli lethal miscalculations. It is actually a \u2018Zionist\u2019 Israeli patriotic outlet that is providing the good. I actually believe that this form of harsh self-criticism that is embedded in Israeli culture, is the means that sustains Israeli regional hegemony, at least monetarily. This ability to critically examine and disapprove your own leadership is something I fail to encounter in Western media. Seemingly,\u00a0 the\u00a0 media in Israel is far more tolerant toward criticism\u00a0 than the Zionist dominated\u00a0 Media in the West.<\/p>\n

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Gilad Atzmon is a public opponent of Israel. Born into a pro-Zionist family and serving in the first Lebanon War, he had a dramatic turnaround. He quit the army, picked up his sax and exiled himself to London. Atzmon writes\u00a0on political matters, social issues,\u00a0Jewish identity and culture. His\u00a0papers are published around the world: TRANSCEND Media Service<\/a>,<\/a> World News,<\/a> The Guardian<\/a>, Rebelion, <\/a>The Daily Telegraph<\/a>, Uprooted Palestinians<\/a>, Veterans Today<\/a>, Palestine Telegraph<\/a>, Counterpunch,<\/a> Dissident Voice, <\/a>Aljazeera Magazine, \u00a0 Information Clearing House, <\/a>\u00a0 <\/a>Middle-East-Online<\/a>, \u00a0 Palestine Chronicle, The People Voice<\/a>, Redress<\/a>,\u00a0Shoa (The Palestinian Holocaust)\u00a0<\/a> and many more.<\/i><\/p>\n

Go to Original \u2013 gilad.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sadly enough, it isn\u2019t The Guardian or The New York Times that is there to reveal the latest development in Syria and expose Israeli lethal miscalculations. It is actually a \u2018Zionist\u2019 Israeli patriotic outlet that is providing the good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,66,54,204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-militarism","category-middle-east-north-africa","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide","category-syria-in-context"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}