Hizbullah is copied by Syria in Border practice for Outbreak of Future Israeli War!
March 8, 2007
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It appears that Syria has been preparing its border with Israel for war using techniques learned from Hizbullah’s successes against the IDF in the 2006 Summer and Fall war.
Preparation apparently began during early December 2006, and is still continuing.
Begin Arutz Sheva Article
Syrian Border Attacks May Be First Shot in New War
16 Adar 5767, 06 March 07 08:20
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Arutz Sheva, Israel National News
(IsraelNN.com) Syrian terrorists said they tossed mines across the Syrian border into Israel. Israeli officials claimed the attackers were shepherds. The provocative tactics copy those used by Hizbullah ahead of last year’s war in Lebanon.
In a statement to WorldNetDaily, the new Syrian terrorist group said that it was responsible for planting six mines across the Israeli border Saturday morning.
IDF soldiers prevented the attack from succeeding when they discovered the explosive devices before their patrols passed by.
The terrorist gang, the Committee for the Liberation of the Golan Heights, said it is copying the methods of the Hizbullah in Lebanon.
Saturday’s incident of placing anti-personnel mines across the Syria-Israel lines, the first such attack on Israel, comes on the heels of reports of unusual Syrian military activity along the border. Golan Heights residents fear that extensive construction on the Syrian side is intended to house soldiers and terrorists in preparation for the same kind of offensive as last summer’s cross-border attacks on Israel.
Israel initially said that Syrian shepherds were responsible for the mine placement.
Israeli officials filed a complaint with the United Nations, which is responsible for maintaining security in the buffer zone between the two countries.
Before last summer’s war, Hizbullah terrorists often strayed over the Lebanese border into Israel, sometimes disguised as shepherds, with concealed explosive devices.
Their goal in planting the bombs was to entice Israel into a retaliation and a rise in tension. In most cases, Israel refrained from responding, even when the incidents escalated into isolated Katyusha rocket attacks.
Hizbullah simultaneously built a huge underground network of bunkers in southern Lebanon, where weapons were stored and used for attacks during a five-week war with Israel last summer. The war flared after the terrorist organization kidnapped two IDF soldiers and killed seven last June, prompting an extensive Israeli reaction. The resultant IDF campaign against the Hizbullah in Lebanon concluded without the return of the soldiers, the stated aim of the Israeli government at the time.
The Syrian terrorists who claimed responsibility for placing the mines on Saturday is the same group that said last month it is holding missing IDF soldier Guy Hever, who has been missing since 1997.
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
Exclusive: Syria builds ‘death trap’ villages along border in preparation for War
Yaakov Katz, THE JERUSALEM POST
December 21, 2006
Warning that Israel may face a “Syrian intifada,” a high-ranking officer in Northern Command has told The Jerusalem Post that villages recently built by Syria along the border are planned to be used as “death traps” for IDF troops in Hizbullah-
inspired attacks.
Since this summer’s war in Lebanon, Syria, the officer revealed, has invested large amounts of money in replicating Hizbullah military tactics, particularly in establishing additional commando units and fortifying its short- and long-range missile array.
The idea is to draw Israel into an asymmetric war, the officer said, like the warfare the IDF encounters in combat against the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as well as against Hizbullah in Lebanon.
Over the past two years, Syria has built a number of villages along the border with Israel, some inhabited and some not.
At first, the IDF was not sure of their purpose.
But now, following the war, the officer said, it was understood.
“Syria drew motivation from Hizbullah’s surprise success this summer,” the high-ranking officer said. “They now want to copy that type of guerrilla warfare.”
While for years it was assumed that Israel had a major edge against Syria’s military with regard to a conventional war – tank versus tank, jet versus jet – in an urban setting, the Syrian military would be able, the officer said, to wreak havoc against IDF infantry and armored units like Hizbullah did.
According to the officer, Syria has drawn three major lessons from the war and has begun to implement them. The first is that rockets – 4,000 struck northern Israel during the 33-days of fighting – can paralyze the home front. The second is that antitank missiles can penetrate the Merkava tank and force infantry units to abandon armored personnel carriers and trek into enemy territory by foot. And the third is that in villages and cities the Israeli Air Force’s abilities are limited and IDF ground forces can be defeated.
During the war, the IDF fell into several deadly ambushes in southern Lebanese villages; one in Bint Jbail killed eight soldiers from Battalion 51 of the Golani Brigade.
The Syrian military, the officer said, was conducting urban warfare exercises in preparation for the possibility of a war with Israel.
The IDF has also dramatically increased its training regiments and has, at all times, between two-to-three brigades training in the Golan Heights.
Lacking clear intelligence regarding Syrian intelligence, the officer said that the Northern Command’s “working assumption” was that there was a possibility of war and there was a need to prepare accordingly.
While defense officials have crisscrossed in recent weeks concerning the sincerity of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s offer of peace, the top officer said that, according to “all the signs,” Syria was preparing for war with Israel. The Syrian military has beefed-up forces along the Golan Heights and Israel has done the same. In the Hermon, for instance,
the IDF has doubled the number of troops.
“The feeling is unfortunately that another round is needed before we will be able to engage in a dialogue or peace talks with Syria,” the officer said. ” It is like with the Egyptians.
The war in 1973 was what made it partially possible for [Egyptian president Anwar] Sadat to come to Israel.”
Syria, the officer said, has since the war ended, transferred truckloads of weapons and missiles to Hizbullah.
Due to the convoys, Hizbullah, he said, was almost back at its full strength where it was before the war with Israel.
End Jerusalem Post Article
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