{"id":48144,"date":"2019-08-31T08:52:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T13:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48144"},"modified":"2019-08-31T08:52:56","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T13:52:56","slug":"netanyahu-confirms-israeli-attacks-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48144","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu Confirms Israeli Attacks In Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/netanyahu-confirms-israeli-attacks-iraq\">Netanyahu Confirms\u00a0Israeli Attacks In Iraq<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recent unprecedented airstrikes on Iraq widely believed to have been carried out by either Israeli drones or stealth jets have been acknowledged by&nbsp;Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who on Friday gave belated confirmation that the Israeli military has been active there.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said during a Facebook live stream event\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/netanyahu-says-hes-doing-everything-to-defend-israel-including-in-iraq\/\">to political supports that<\/a>\u00a0\u201cI am doing everything to defend our nation\u2019s security from all directions: in the north facing Lebanon and Hezbollah, in Syria facing Iran and Hezbollah,\u00a0<strong>unfortunately in Iraq as well facing Iran<\/strong>. We are surrounded by radical Islam led by Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/pmnetanyahu.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><em>Image source: The Times of Israel<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the past six weeks there&#8217;s been three significant airstrikes on Iraqi paramilitary forces bases\u00a0<em>\u2014<\/em>\u00a0at least one of which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-08-24\/us-officials-confirm-israel-behind-unprecedented-airstrikes-iraq\">US officials have confirmed<\/a>\u00a0Israeli responsibility for. All of them targeted Iran-backed Shia paramilitary units.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The &#8216;mystery&#8217; attacks, two of which came in August and one in July, have&nbsp;<strong>renewed calls from Iraqi parliament for a complete US troops withdrawal from the country<\/strong>, especially given the demise of the Islamic State and now with no official justification for American forces to be there.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The political and diplomatic firestorm resulting from the Israeli strikes and violations of sovereign Iraqi airspace have resulted in an awkward\u00a0Pentagon statement saying the US had no role or foreknowledge of the attacks; however the statement stopped short of naming Israel or alleging who was behind them.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/israelistrikes.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><em>AP image of one of the recent airstrikes on an Iraqi munitions depot and paramilitary base.&nbsp;<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week while on a state visit to Kiev, Netanyahu&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/netanyahu-hints-israel-behind-strikes-on-iraq-says-iran-not-immune-anywhere\/\">told reporters<\/a>,&nbsp;<strong>\u201cIran has no immunity, anywhere\u201d<\/strong>. He was responding to a specific question about the mystery attacks on Iraq.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe will act \u2014 and currently are acting \u2014 against them, wherever it is necessary,\u201d&nbsp;he declared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netanyahu Confirms\u00a0Israeli Attacks In Iraq Recent unprecedented airstrikes on Iraq widely believed to have been carried out by either Israeli drones or stealth jets have been acknowledged by&nbsp;Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who on Friday gave belated confirmation that the Israeli military has been active there.&nbsp;&nbsp; He said during a Facebook live stream event\u00a0to political supports [&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":[26650,3910,2559,1049,3042,776],"class_list":["post-48144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-airstirkes","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-islam","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48144","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=48144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48145,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48144\/revisions\/48145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}