{"id":1784,"date":"2019-04-20T20:45:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T17:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2019-04-23T21:06:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T18:06:38","slug":"declare-war-on-lebanon-take-out-syrias-s-300s-outgoing-israeli-general-on-handling-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=1784","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Declare war on Lebanon, take out Syria\u2019s S-300s\u2019: Outgoing Israeli general on handling neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Israel has the full arsenal needed to take on Hezbollah in Lebanon and eliminate the Iranian threat in Syria, the outgoing IDF Northern Command chief boasted, warning Damascus against using S-300s to protect its sovereignty.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1785\" style=\"width: 990px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?attachment_id=1785\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1785\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1785\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1785\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2019-04-20-Israeli-Air-Force-F-15I.jpg\" alt=\"Israeli Air Force F-15I (IAF)\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2019-04-20-Israeli-Air-Force-F-15I.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/2019-04-20-Israeli-Air-Force-F-15I-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1785\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israeli Air Force F-15I (IAF)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIf our freedom of movement is threatened, we will remove the threat. We know how to do that,\u201d General Yoel Strick told Ynet News, adding that Israel will soon introduce \u201cadvanced weapons systems\u201d to ensure it can continue to violate neighboring states\u2019 airspace and to strike targets in Syria with impunity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the Syrians employ Russian S-300s against our planes, and we take them out, it will be seen as a legitimate move on our part.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While acknowledging that such a drastic move might damage Tel Aviv&#8217;s relations with Moscow, Strick expressed hope that it wouldn\u2019t come to that. Moscow had supplied the Arab Republic with S-300 air defense systems following the downing of a Russian Il-20 reconnaissance plane with 15 airmen on board in mid-September, during an Israeli raid.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow also warned Israel that it will suppress all satellite navigation, radars and communications systems of combat planes over the Mediterranean Sea if their maneuvers threaten Russian forces. Since then, Israel has been staging its intrusions via Lebanon, where the Jewish State is trying to keep Hezbollah in check.<\/p>\n<p>Hezbollah is inseparable from Lebanon as a country, due to the militant group\u2019s strong political presence, the general argued. Thus, he claimed, \u201cif it were up to me, I would recommend declaring war on Lebanon and Hezbollah\u201d \u2013 not out of bloodlust but only to thwart the group\u2019s alleged plot to \u201cinvade\u201d Israel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have no doubt what the outcome will be\u2026 It will be a decisive victory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/457056-israeli-general-syria-lebanon\/?utm_source=miximedia&amp;utm_medium=miximedia&amp;utm_campaign=Miximedia\">RT.com<\/a> &#8211; 20 Apr, 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel has the full arsenal needed to take on Hezbollah in Lebanon and eliminate the Iranian threat in Syria, the outgoing IDF Northern Command chief boasted, warning Damascus against using S-300s to protect its&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,36,1691,1728,1674,176,1,7],"tags":[2167,2164,2166,237,2165,2163,241,2162,2161],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1788,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions\/1788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}