{"id":178267,"date":"2019-01-21T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T00:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/01\/21\/great-the-syrian-war-is-going-to-run-into-netanyahus-electoral-ambitions\/"},"modified":"2019-01-21T19:11:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T00:11:00","slug":"great-the-syrian-war-is-going-to-run-into-netanyahus-electoral-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/01\/21\/great-the-syrian-war-is-going-to-run-into-netanyahus-electoral-ambitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Great.  The Syrian War is Going to Run Into Netanyahu&#8217;s Electoral Ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FrDzVheGZbk\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>A Snowboarder Caught this On Tape<\/i><\/div>\n<p>We now have a report that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/israel-bombs-iranian-targets-near-damascus-as-tensions-rocket\/\">Iranian forces fired a rocket at Israel, and Israel responded with air-strikes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Israeli forces bombed targets belonging to Iran inside Syria early Monday morning, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement, as tensions on the northern border continued to skyrocket.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Israeli army said at 1:30 a.m. it was \u201cnow striking Iranian Quds targets in Syrian territory,\u201d and warned Syrian forces not to intervene.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The attack came less than a day after Israel reportedly carried out a rare daylight strike on targets near Damascus, after which Iranian forces in Syria fired a retaliatory missile at Israel, according to the IDF. The exchanges ratcheted up concerns of a wider confrontation between Israel and Iran in Syria. The Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported Monday that the Iranian missile, intercepted en route to the Golan by Israel\u2019s Iron Dome defense system, carried a nearly half-ton warhead.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I do not think that this is unrelated to the fact that Knesset elections will be in less than 3 months.<\/p>\n<p>Say what you will about Binyamin Netanyahu, but he has an almost preternatural knack for tapping into the Israeli electorate fears to further his own political career..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Snowboarder Caught this On Tape We now have a report that Iranian forces fired a rocket at Israel, and Israel responded with air-strikes: Israeli forces bombed targets belonging to Iran inside Syria early Monday morning, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement, as tensions on the northern border continued to skyrocket.The Israeli army &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[488,378,374,696,377],"class_list":["post-178267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-politics","tag-syria","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}