A HAPPY AND BLESSED HANUKKAH to Israel and all our Jewish friends.
Speaking of Israel, we see that Iran’s Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi is
calling for Damascus to join with Iran in striking back at Israel for
the attack it feels must be coming within a month or so, according to
Iranian Intelligence Services.
The Syrians tepid response to the Iranian call to action may be
because they do not wish to attract any more Israeli attention than is
absolutely necessary. Though the mental imagery of a military coalition
between Syria and Iran is more like the Keystone cops meet Laurel and
Hardy. The IDF will no doubt take the situation very seriously. Since
the IDF has been probing Syrian air defense measures for some time, the
least Syria can expect is the loss of their air force and their command
and control centers.
The increasingly feckless Obama administration will make more noise
about sanctions against Iran and then do exactly what the United
Nations will do, which is nothing. The United States will also make a
lot of noise about the detection of highly processed plutonium at Dir
a-Zur, where the IAF turned Syria’s secret nuclear facility into so
much concrete aggregate. One wonders had the Israeli Air Force not hit
these facilities, would the usually inept UN have even known about
Syria’s nuclear proliferation with the aid of North Korea and Iran.
Traces of the same plutonium were discovered at the nuclear research
reactor near the Syrian capital of Damascus.
As we have stated before, the convergence of events has been coming
closer in the past few months and Israel must strike before Russia
fulfills its contract to deliver the more advanced S-300 anti-aircraft
defense system. The US has also been supplying Israel with more
advanced fighter aircraft, utilizing special Israeli electronics
systems. It is not known whether these are operational as yet.
Given Israel’s proven ability to slip past the best of what both
Tehran and Damascus have deployed, and given Iran’s almost comical
performance during their much touted defense training, I shouldn’t
wonder if there weren’t some uneasy people in the defense commands of
both countries.
Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis
© Skip MacLure 2009