Israel shot down a Syrian warplane on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The incident coincided with air strikes the United States and client states have mounted on ISIS strongholds in Syria. It has been three decades since Israel downed a Syrian fighter plane.<\/p>\n
The aggression, incidentally, was not against ISIS, but Assad’s regime itself, which seems to be what Obama’s latest operation is all about: Regime change in Syria, using ISIS as a pretext.<\/p>\n
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks violence in the civil war, said the warplane had been bombing areas outside Quneitra, a Syrian town near the Israeli-held side of the frontier, at the time it was shot down. It said the pilot had bailed out. Syria described the downing of the aircraft as an act of aggression.<\/p>\n
Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon, commenting on the incident, said Israel “will not allow any element – neither a state nor a terrorist group – to threaten our security and violate our sovereignty”.<\/p>\n
Israeli military sources said the plane apparently crossed by accident into Israeli-controlled airspace.<\/p>\n
In his statement, Yaalon also seemed to raise that possibility, saying Israel would respond strongly to perceived threats “whether they stemmed from a mistake or were deliberate”.<\/p>\n
The incident seemed to be aimed at escalating the conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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