{"id":30846,"date":"2018-02-11T14:49:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T19:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30846"},"modified":"2018-02-11T14:55:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T19:55:25","slug":"30846","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30846","title":{"rendered":"Israel &#8220;Preparing For War In North&#8221;, Boosts Air Defenses; Warns Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-02-11\/israel-preparing-war-north-boosts-air-defenses-warns-iran\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Israel &#8220;Preparing For War In North&#8221;, Boosts Air Defenses; Warns Iran<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\">\n<footer class=\"node__meta\">\n<div class=\"submission-wrapper\">One day after the most &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-02-10\/israel-carries-out-large-scale-attack-syria-after-israeli-f-16-shot-down\">significant escalation<\/a>&#8221; in tensions between Israel and Syria\/Iran, when an Israeli F-16 was shot down over the Golan Heights after it attacked a Syrian base which allegedly launched a drone into Israeli airspace, Israel appears to be &#8220;<strong>preparing for war in the North<\/strong>&#8221; according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Arab-Israeli-Conflict\/Preparing-for-war-in-the-north-Israel-boosts-air-defense-542284\">the Jerusalem Post<\/a>, which reports that the Jewish state has boosted its air defense in the region along the Syrian border following the &#8220;significant confrontation between the Jewish State, Syria and Iran.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Witnesses cited by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Arab-Israeli-Conflict\/Preparing-for-war-in-the-north-Israel-boosts-air-defense-542284\">JPost reported <\/a>seeing a convoy of missile-defense batteries heading north near the Israeli-Arab city of Baka al-Gharbiya. Other witnesses posted photos of several trucks carrying the batteries on central highways in northern Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s air defenses currently include the Iron Dome, designed to shoot down short-range rockets.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/iron%20dome.jpg?itok=RjccGOqW\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Additionally there is the Arrow system, which intercepts ballistic missiles outside of the Earth\u2019s atmosphere and the David\u2019s Sling missile-defense system, which is designed to intercept tactical ballistic missiles, medium- to long-range rockets and cruise missiles fired from ranges of between 40 km. to 300 km.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/israel%20arrow.jpg?itok=vF-Fit-V\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Arrow system was first reportedly used in April when it was launched to intercept three surface-to-air missiles fired toward IAF jets by Syrian-regime air defense.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/israel-warns-over-irans-presence-syria-air-strikes-155202407.html\">according to AFP<\/a>, Israel issued a stark warning on Sunday over Iran&#8217;s presence in neighbouring Syria after the previously reported confrontation between the neighboring nations threatened to open a new and unpredictable period in Syria&#8217;s seven-year civil war, which now appears to also be engaged in de facto war against Israel.<\/p>\n<p>In a dramatic escalation, Israel carried out major air raids in Syria on Saturday, including against what it described as Iranian targets &#8211; the first time it had publicly acknowledged doing so since the war began. The raids came after an Israeli F16 fighter was shot down by Syrian air defenses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel &#8220;Preparing For War In North&#8221;, Boosts Air Defenses; Warns Iran One day after the most &#8220;significant escalation&#8221; in tensions between Israel and Syria\/Iran, when an Israeli F-16 was shot down over the Golan Heights after it attacked a Syrian base which allegedly launched a drone into Israeli airspace, Israel appears to be &#8220;preparing for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[441,1049,18486,776,862,4318],"class_list":["post-30846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-jerusalem-post","tag-syria","tag-war","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30846"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30849,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30846\/revisions\/30849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}