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This Summer's War With Syria - Head Of Syrian Intelligence Pushing Assad Toward War

Happy Friday:

The head of Syria's military intelligence is pressing President Bashar Assad to initiate hostilities with Israel as early as next month... General Asef Shawkat, who is also Assad's brother-in-law, has been working hard to convince the Syrian leader that “there is no chance of a political channel to return the Golan Heights,” a Lebanese official told Israel's Yediot Ahronot on condition of anonymity.

But Syria would get dismantled in a ground war against Golani tank brigades.. and the IAF would level Syrian C3I facilities in something like a day and a half... and the IDF might get pushed back at first, but just like in 1973 they would be able to push back toward Damascus... And yet, there's something that makes the Syrians think that they can accomplish great things even while all this is happening. And those great things appear to be killing lots of Jews:

Shawkat reportedly informed Assad that Syria would not have to actually win a war with Israel, but just inflict enough damage on its cities by means of large-scale missile attacks to force the Israelis to the negotiating table, where Damascus would then be in a good position to regain control of the Golan. A Syrian official who recently fled his homeland after getting on Shawkat's bad side told Yediot that “the general is controlling the president by sidelining his aides, and is exploiting Bashar's unstable moods.”

How bad could the campaign get? The money lines from the stories coming out earlier this week were "destructive force large enough to damage entire blocks of buildings" and "missiles numbering in the hundreds within an hour". And that's before we even begin to calculate the enormous damage that the UN would do nothing to stop Hezbollah from inflicting.

But hey, at least there's still a way to blame Israel for all of this. We're not exactly sure what it is, but we're confident the UN will figure it out when Israeli schools and hospitals start getting saturation bombed.

References:
* Report: Syrian general pushing Assad toward war [Israel Today]
* This Summer's War With Syria - Syria Aims Chemical And Biological Weapons At Israeli Cities, Complains That Israel Might Attack It To Prevent It From Launching Chemical And Biological Weapons [MR]

Previously:
* This Summer's War With Syria, Iranian Coordination Edition
* Syria is Hiding Weapons in Civilian Aid Convoys. Of Course They Are.
* Syria Modernizing Its Airforce With Russian Help - War With Israel On The Horizon

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