{"id":41703,"date":"2018-12-15T20:56:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T01:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41703"},"modified":"2018-12-15T20:56:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T01:56:00","slug":"new-rules-of-engagement-between-syria-and-israel-as-russia-changes-its-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41703","title":{"rendered":"New Rules of Engagement Between Syria and Israel, as Russia Changes its Position"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NEW RULES OF ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN SYRIA AND ISRAEL, AS RUSSIA CHANGES ITS POSITION<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Syria will adopt a new rule of engagement with Israel now that Russia has taken a tougher and clearer stance on the conflict between Israel and the \u201cAxis of the Resistance<\/a>\u201d. Henceforth, Damascus will be responding to any Israeli strike. If it damages a specific military target it will reply with a strike against a similar objective in Israel. Decision makers in Damascus said \u201cSyria will not hesitate to hit an Israeli airport if Damascus airport is targeted and hit by Israel. This will be with the consent of the Russian military based in the Levant\u201d.<\/p>\n

This Syrian political decision is based on a clear position taken by Russia in Syria following the\u00a0downing of its aircraft<\/a> on September 18 this year. In 2015 when the Russian military landed in Syria, it informed the parties concerned (i.e. Syria, Iran and Israel) that it had no intention to interfere in the conflict between them and Hezbollah and that it would not stand in the way of Tel Aviv\u2019s planes bombing Hezbollah military convoys on their way to Lebanon or Iranian military warehouses not allocated to the war in Syria. This was a commitment to remain an onlooker if Israel hit Iranian military objectives or Hezbollah convoys transporting arms to Hezbollah from Syria to Lebanon, within Syrian territory. It also informed Israel that it would not accept any attacks on its allies (Syria, Iran, Hezbollah, and their allies) engaged in fighting ISIS, al-Qaeda and its allies.<\/p>\n

Israel respected the will of Moscow until the beginning of 2018, when it started to attack Iranian bases and Syrian military warehouses, though it\u00a0never attacked a Hezbollah military position<\/strong>. Israel justified its attack against the Iranian base, a military facility called T4, by claiming\u00a0it had sent drones over Israel<\/a>. Tel Aviv considered violation of its neighbours\u2019 sovereignty as its exclusive prerogative.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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NEW RULES OF ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN SYRIA AND ISRAEL, AS RUSSIA CHANGES ITS POSITION Syria will adopt a new rule of engagement with Israel now that Russia has taken a tougher and clearer stance on the conflict between Israel and the \u201cAxis of the Resistance\u201d. Henceforth, Damascus will be responding to any Israeli strike. If it […]<\/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":[23,16163,3039,441,446,1049,3042,694,776],"class_list":["post-41703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-al-qaeda","tag-elijah-j-magnier","tag-hezbollah","tag-iran","tag-isis","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-russia","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41703","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=41703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41704,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41703\/revisions\/41704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}