{"id":276,"date":"2015-08-21T12:27:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T12:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcschulman.com\/?p=276"},"modified":"2015-08-21T12:28:39","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T12:28:39","slug":"why-were-missiles-fired-at-israel-from-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/21\/why-were-missiles-fired-at-israel-from-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Were Missiles Fired at Israel From Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was a strange day. \u00a0I wrote an article for Newsweek<\/a> in the early afternoon, prompted by\u00a0Israel’s \u00a0deployment of the\u00a0Iran Dome system in a number of cities. \u00a0The article centered on the unpredictability of life in Israel. \u00a0I filed the article at 5 PM and then at 5:40 missiles were fired into Northern Israel from Syria. \u00a0Certainly an unexpected event. \u00a0We were concerned about missiles from the South instead we received them from the North.<\/p>\n

It turns out the weapons were fired by Islamic Jihad, supposedly under the direction of the Iranians from one of the few places on the Golan Heights that the Syrian Army still controls. The big questions of course is why. \u00a0The simple answer was that it was a retaliation for an Israeli attack a couple of weeks ago. \u00a0That could be the case, but this attack was not the firing of a few mortars toward\u00a0the Israeli part of the Golan Heights, it was the firing of missiles that landed much deeper in Israel. \u00a0It was an act that was sure to bring about a significant Israeli response- one that took place. \u00a0The question remains why? \u00a0One can only speculate- but I have one potential answer. \u00a0Hardliners in the Iranian regime who are interested on in derailing the nuclear agreement by provoking a crisis with Israel. \u00a0Can I prove it of course not- one of our greatest weakness is how little we understand about internal Iranian politics. \u00a0Who are the opponents of the agreement and why do the object? Is it idealogical? Or might it be because certain forces such as the Quds forces have been making a great deal of money because of the embargo and will be the biggest losers?<\/p>\n

The answer is we simply do not know. \u00a0Israel responded to yesterday attack with disproportional response both from the air and from artillery fire. \u00a0The goal was to show the Syrians that if they allowed further attacks from their soil they will price that their regime cannot afford. \u00a0Of course another thing we do not know is how much the Syrians are still masters in their own house.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday was a strange day. \u00a0I wrote an article for Newsweek in the early afternoon, prompted by\u00a0Israel’s \u00a0deployment of the\u00a0Iran Dome system in a number of cities. \u00a0The article centered on the unpredictability of life in Israel. \u00a0I filed the article at 5 PM and then at 5:40 missiles were fired into Northern Israel from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"saved_in_kubio":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}