Saturday, November 14, 2015

It's Just Business

Israel and Russia have agreed to respect each other's objectives in Syria. Israel isn't being shy about pursuing their objective despite Russia's military presence in Syria.

Strategypage notes three air strikes that I've read nothing about in my usual stream of news:

October 30, 2015: In Syria Israeli aircraft apparently bombed a shipment of SCUD ballistic missiles headed to Lebanon for Hezbollah.

November 2, 2015: In Syria Israeli aircraft apparently bombed a shipment of weapons headed to Lebanon for Hezbollah.

November 11, 2015: Israeli aircraft bombed a weapons storage site near the Damascus airport in Syria.

Of course, Russia gets Israeli cooperation, too:

October 29, 2015: For the first time Russian warplanes hit Syrian rebels near the Israeli border. Otherwise the Israelis have found their Syrian border pretty quiet for the last month or so.

Nothing much has been made of any of this in the media.