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The Syrian state news agency SANA reported that Monday night, missile strikes from Israeli warplanes flying over Lebanon targeted sites in Syria, wounding two Syrian soldiers, wounding a woman and destroying a number of houses.
As we have been reporting, Israel has admitted to launching hundreds of airstrikes into Syria that target Iranian troops, military targets and allied groups such as Hezbollah who, along with Russia, are supporting the government of Bashar al-Assad.
See:
- “ISRAEL KEEPS STRIKING SYRIA WITH MISSILES,” 2 Nov 2021
- “ISRAEL CONDUCTS SERIES OF DEADLY AIRSTRIKES IN SYRIA,” 15 Jun 2021
- “ISRAEL: FIGHTER JETS KILL IRANIANS IN SYRIA,” 12 May 2020
- “ISRAEL ACCUSED OF BOMBING SYRIA,” 23 Mar 2021
Iran vs. Israel
TREND FORECAST: As we have forecast, with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett taking over from former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, considering who he is and what he stands for, we forecast it will be a continued escalation against Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Iran.
For example, Bennett served in an elite unit of the Israel Defense Forces and in 2013 he became the leader of the pro-settler party Jewish Home that opposed the formation of a Palestinian state. He rebranded the Jewish Home to “Yamina” in 2019.
In 2018, The Times of Israel reported that Bennett said that if he were defense minister, he would enact a “shoot to kill” policy with Gaza for those breaching the barrier wall. When asked if he would also “shoot to kill” children breaching the barrier, Bennett said “They are not children—they are terrorists.”
And as for Israel’s position against Iran, as reported in the headline of today’s The Times of Israel, “IDF chief: Army ‘accelerating’ plans targeting Iran’s nuclear program.”
The article went on to state that the head of the Israel Defense Forces, Benny Gantz, warned that the Israeli military was “ramping up its preparations for a possible attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.
They quoted Gantz as saying Israel will carry out operations that “haven’t been seen in the past” if regional war breaks out. The Times also quoted DF Chief of Staff, Aviv Kohavi, who told the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that the army “is accelerating operational planning and preparedness to deal with Iran and the military nuclear threat.”
Thus, we maintain our forecast that if war breaks out between Israel and Iran it will essentially be the beginning of World War III. And should military conflict rage between the two nations, oil prices will spike far above $100 per barrel which in turn will greatly accelerate the current inflation spike. And, should prices hit that level, it will crash the artificially inflated equity markets and sink economies into depression.