An Approaching Point of Crisis - By Matt Ward - http://www.raptureready.com/2017/04/02/an-approaching-point-of-crisis-by-matt-ward/
Late on Friday, March 17th, Israeli fighter jets crossed the Syrian border and carried out bombing raids against targets located in or near Palmyra. It represents the most northerly point Israel have ever attacked in Syria since the beginning of the civil war in 2011. It is believed Israel were targeting Hezbollah advanced weapons transfers. The Syrian response was immediate, launching several anti-aircraft missiles which pursued the IDF jets back into Israeli airspace. Israel were then forced, for the first time, to deploy the new Arrow defense system, which according the Israeli government successfully intercepted the Syrian anti-aircraft missiles just moments before they hit the retreating Israeli jets.
Syria replied officially through its Ambassador to the United Nation's, Bashar Al Jaafari, who reflected a change of mood in the Syrian capital Damascus to such attacks, "the Syrian response was appropriate and changed the rules of the game." The Syrian government, under Bashar Al Assad, is feeling increasingly empowered and to a very large degree immune from Israel's more drastic military responses, due to Russia's ever growing presence within Syria. Assad is beginning to feel secure again and also quite emboldened, to the point that he clearly no longer fears the consequences of firing upon Israeli jets, or perhaps even upon Israel itself.
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