Syria Will Fire Scuds at Israel in Response to Airstrikes
Sputnik – 26.03.2017
The Syrian government has announced that it will retaliate should Israel continue to conduct airstrikes on Syrian territory.
Any further airstrikes on Syrian territory will be met with deadly force and retaliation strikes deep within Israeli soil, they said.
According to the message, delivered via Russian mediators, attacks on Syrian military objects will be met with Scud missiles launched at Israeli military bases. If Israel attacks civilian infrastructure, Syrian missiles will be fired at Israel’s Haifa port and petrochemical plant. The missiles will be launched without any prior notice, the statement said.
The notice follows Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s March 20 statement that protecting its borders is the right and obligation of every nation.
“Syria’s forceful response to the Israeli attacks changed the rules of the game,” said Syrian Ambassador to the UN Bashar al-Jaafari. He added that the threatened response is “appropriate and in line with Israel’s terrorist operation,” and that Israel “will now think a million times [before striking again].”
On March 17, Israeli military reported several airstrikes on Syrian territory; they were followed by several anti-aircraft missiles launched at Israeli warplanes flying over Syrian territory. One of the missiles was reportedly intercepted by Israel’s Arrow missile defense system. However, Syrian authorities claim they successfully downed an Israeli plane not far from Damascus.
Following the incidents, Israel threatened to conduct strikes specifically to destroy Syrian anti-air batteries.
According to Israeli leadership, the airstrikes are aimed at fighting advanced weapons smuggling to Hezbollah in Lebanon across Syrian territory.
“Our politics is very consistent,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in the wake of the airstrikes. “When we know about an attempt to smuggle weapons to Hezbollah, we do whatever we can to prevent this from happening, provided we have sufficient information and capabilities to react.”
According to media reports, during his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Netanyahu vowed to continue fighting attempts to smuggle weapons to Hezbollah through Syria. Netanyahu denied reports that he was told to cease military operations in Syria.
Israel and Syria have not engaged in any kind of serious military confrontation since civil war broke out in Syria six years ago. The sporadic, over-the-border fire is dismissed by Israeli authorities. There are about 800 Soviet-made Scud missiles, capable of delivering half a ton of explosives, located in Syria.
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Psychiatric drugs kill 500k+ Western adults annually, few positive benefits – leading scientist
RT | May 13, 2015
Psychiatric drugs lead to the deaths of over 500,000 people aged 65 and over annually in the West, a Danish scientist says. He warns the benefits of these drugs are “minimal,” and have been vastly overstated.
Research director at Denmark’s Nordic Cochrane Centre, Professor Peter Gøtzsche, says the use of most antidepressants and dementia drugs could be halted without inflicting harm on patients. The Danish scientist’s views were published in the British Medical Journal on Tuesday.
His scathing analysis will likely prove controversial among traditional medics. However, concern is mounting among doctors and scientists worldwide that psychiatric medication is doing more harm than good. In particular, they say antipsychotic drugs have been over-prescribed to many dementia patients in a bid to calm agitated behavior.
Gøtzsche warns psychiatric drugs kill patients year in year out, and hold few positive benefits. He says in excess of half a million citizens across the Western world aged 65 and over die annually as a result of taking these drugs.
“Their benefits would need to be colossal to justify this, but they are minimal,” he writes.
“Given their lack of benefit, I estimate we could stop almost all psychotropic drugs without causing harm.”
Gøtzsche, who is also a clinical trials expert, says drug trials funded by big pharmaceutical companies tend to produce biased results because many patients took other medication prior to the tests.
He says patients cease taking the old drugs and then experience a phase of withdrawal prior to taking the trial pharmaceuticals, which appear highly beneficial at first.
The Danish professor also warns fatalities from suicides in clinical trials are significantly under-reported. … continue
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I imagine that America’s(and the World’s) mainstream media, are already working out the Headlines to blame Syria for an “unprovoked attack” on Israel by “Terrorists” in Syria……..
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No justice … no peace. The channels of justice are controlled by the zionist entity.
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Strike the Zionist bastards aka criminal psychotics, President Assad!
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Hey Brian, why not yell at your own fascist country for a while?. Blaming America for everything doesnt help you or your country when you’re doing the same thing.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2017/03/25/515538/Australia-arms-exports-Saudi-Yemen
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My comment was directed towards the West’s MSM, NOT the American people. There’s millions of American people who would probably agree with me.(excluding you of course.)………….
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A strike against Israel is–in the stinking thinking of zionists’ JEWNIVERSE–permission to unleash a Samson option. With five nuclear missle equipped Dolphin-class submarines at their command, the psychopaths who run Israel would take down the world and consider the result a ‘win’ for their evil agenda.
I’m sure that Brian can be critical of Australia’s leaders. Some day I want to have a drink with Brian and Robert in celebration of the world-wide excorcism’s completion.
The world-wide exorcism will not be achieved by force.
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“Like”……I am not critical of the American people, but I am critical of the Military Industrial Complex(and, The Deep State). Australia’s current government are truly pathetic as well. I resent any Australian company adding to the horror in Yemen(of which, we get fed bullshit by our completely owned Media)
In what seems to have become the “Post Democratic West” I reserve the right to tip sh!t on whoever deserves it. Everyone else, including Diaz, should do the same……Cheers everyone.
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