WILL ISRAEL PARTICIPATE?
DEBKAfile Special Report December 7, 2012, 3:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
Joint British-French Albanian Lion Exercise
Sources close to the French Defense Ministry reported Friday, Dec. 7, that a Western-Arab military intervention against the Assad regime is due to begin shortly with the participation of the US, France, Britain, Turkey, Jordan and other anti-Assad Arab nations. DEBKAfile: The reference is to Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar’s special forces.
Our military sources add that the French aircraft carrier Charles De Gaulle carrying a complement of marines is deployed in the Mediterranean, having joined the USS Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group and at least five British warships which are also carrying a large marine force.
In the second and third weeks of November, British and French naval forces, plus 2,600 special ops combatants from both nations, performed landing-and-capture exercises against fortified locations on the coast and mountains of Albania as practice for potential operations against similar terrain in Syria, where the Alawite Mountains loom over the coastal towns of Latakia and Tartus.
The troops landing there would head for the Alawite Mts. to prevent Assad and his loyal units from retreating to his mountain stronghold and fighting on from there – as he plans to do if he is forced to flee Damascus.
French sources told Le Point magazine that the NATO mission for Syria, including the UK and the US, would be modeled on the Western intervention in Libya in 2011. It would combine an aerial blitz with ground action by special forces for destroying Assad’s chemical weapons stocks, his air force and his air defense systems.
@ Felix Quigley:
Mr. Quigley, When it is all said and done–it is God who will defend Israel and completely destroy the enemies of Israel; in the meantime incompetent and Godless Israeli leaders–will continue on their course of self hatred and self destruction.
@ Laura:
Miss Laura, I’ve been saying and blogging on this for months–of course this is by design–Barack Obama and his cabal of anti-Semite world leaders are deliberately alining nations against Israel and placing the Nazi Muslim Brotherhood into power in those nations–in order to destroy Israel!
Furthermore–these nations alining against Israel [to come to destroy Israel] is outlined in the Tanakh–these prophecies are being fulfilled as we are watching.
The good news here is–all of these nations will be destroyed by God–and Israel with Yerushalayim as its capital will be forever!
They are hell bent on making things worse–much like they did in Egypt and in Libya; and it will be far worse for the Syrian people, for Israel and for the world–wherever the Nazi Muslim Brotherhood has influence and power–its a disaster!
A pox on Britain and France. Hypocritical NATO countries believe they have the right to go to war against countries thousands of miles away and of no threat to them. But Israel is bad if it defends itself against terrorists operating on its doorstep and firing rockets at its population.
We are going to bring jihadists to power in yet another Arab country. The Syrian jihadi “rebels” have vowed to continue their jihad against Israel. But perhaps putting a noose around Israel is exactly the goal. Jordan will be the next to fall under the muslim brotherhood. This is no coincidence. It is difficult to see how it can be an accident that the Obama administration policies consistently aid the muslim brotherhood in countries surrounding Israel. This is obviously being done by design.
What do you yourself Ted think Israel should do in this situation, and what do your voluble commenters on Israpundit think Israel should do?