http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Syria-confirms-Israeli-airstrike-warns-Israel-against-endangering-stability-in-region-345848

Air force strikes Syrian targets in response to border fence bombing
Assad regime confirms fatality; PM: We will attack those who attack us.

The Israel Air Force attacked Syrian military targets early Wednesday morning in response to a border bombing of an IDF patrol the previous day on the northern Golan Heights.

The IDF said it targeted army command posts, artillery batteries and a training base on the Syrian side of the Heights that it said enabled the detonation of an explosive charge on Tuesday, wounding four paratroopers, one seriously.

The attack is the largest on Syria that Israel has acknowledged since the start of the Syrian civil conflict three years ago.

It is the second IDF action against Syrian regime targets in hours. On Tuesday, IDF artillery units struck Syrian army posts within minutes of the border incident.

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said the targets hit were chosen because they “allowed and assisted in yesterday’s terror attack.”

“We will not tolerate any infringement of our sovereignty or harm to our soldiers and civilians,” he said. “We will respond resolutely and powerfully to anyone who acts against us, at any time and place, as we’ve done tonight.”

Ya’alon said Israel viewed Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime as being responsible for what occurs in its territory. He warned that if it continued to cooperate with terrorist elements seeking to harm Israel, it would pay a heavy price, one that would cause it “to regret its actions.”

The defense minister vowed to continue to act “responsibly, and with good judgment, to safeguard the security of Israeli civilians.”

Damascus later confirmed that air strikes targeted its military sites near the Golan Heights, adding that they killed one soldier and wounded seven others. In a statement, the Syrian army accused Israel of violating international law and of making “desperate attempts to escalate the situation.”

The statement stopped short of any direct threat of retaliation and affirmed its focus on defeating insurgents.

Hours after the IAF action in Syria, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, speaking at the weekly cabinet meeting that was postponed from Sunday because of Purim, said that the targets hit belonged to Syrian elements who not only allowed the attack to take place, but assisted in it.

“Our policy is very clear,” he said. “We attack those who attack us.”

Netanyahu said that Israel, to the best of its ability, consistently thwarts the transfer of weapons. This policy, he said, has resulted in a situation where over the past year, and indeed over the past five years since he has been in power, the level of terrorism has been low.

“Last year it was the lowest level in a decade, both in the number of fatalities and in the firing of missiles and rockets,” he said. “From time to time it is necessary to take aggressive action, as we are doing now, to ensure that the quiet continues.”

Netanyahu said this policy was responsible for the fact that Israel is the most secure and stable country in a Middle East that is “undergoing profound turmoil.”

way to downplay the 200+ air to air victories by the Israelis during that war.
http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_264.shtml

good job Baghdad Bob

The link you’ve provided specifies kills for the July 1967 – September 1973 inter-war period, including the War of Attrition. Israel officialy claims 60 air to air victories for the June 1967 war. This is the link you’re looking for: http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_261.shtml

Israel has never claimed to have lost no aircraft during the 1982 war, it claims to have lost none in air-to-air combat. Published Israeli losses during the 1982 war include an F-4 to Syrian SAMs in July, a pair of UH-1s, an A-4 Skyhawk, a pair of AH-1 Cobras and an MD-500, and that’s just off the top of my head.

The Syrians make multiple claims, Russian publications make others, but to date there is nothing to substantiate these claims. No kill shots, no POW pilots and no wreckage. Some can be dismissed out of hand, the E-2 for instance. Israel received four, 3 were sold to Mexico and the last is in the IAF museum.

The damaged F-15 claim is also true, I’ll try to find the photos.

On the contrary, it has EVERYTHING to do with today’s attack. Oh and i’m affraid there’s nothing for you to hold your own to, if you would actually try to justify your country’s actions in the last decades. And again, like other compatriots of yours, you try to insinuate that the well argumented, unanimous criticism of your country’s actions and policies, coming from pretty much every corner of the civilized world, has only to do with the “fact” that according to your culture (which “fact” is indoctrinated into your every citizen from the day they’re born, disturbingly), everybody hates you because you’re… jewish, rather that having to do with your country’s obvious actions in the last decades, actions visible to every educated enough person. I wonder how many of your fellow countrymen have the strength of character to look in the mirror and say “you know, maybe we’re doing something wrong here after all?”. Mind you , last i know , these peoples, israelis which indeed have strength of character are shunned and bullied in your country, it is not “politically correct” in your country to boycott your settlements, for example.

But i guess, it’s much easier to bury one’s head in the sand and blame others, everyone else but themselves for your own failures and mistakes.

Anyway, enough from me, i guess you’re already categorizing peoples who say things i do as “anti-semites”, evil anti-jews who want to demonize, delegitimize Israel or whatever, which obviously is nothing further from the truth, but i doubt you can see and understand that from your unfortunately very narrow ( mostly religious based-which probably it’s not your fault , as it’s been indoctrinated in your mind since you were a little kid, as i mentioned above) view of the world around. Pity.

Nice rant, mack, but if you truly believe that there’s nothing for me to hold my own to, it just goes to show which among us has the narrow world view. I mean, seriously, you can’t even fathom someone having a differing opinion!
You don’t know the first thing about me, you don’t know what my opinions about the Arab Israeli conflict are, yet nevertheless afford yourself such assumptions as what my world view is based on! Not only do you presume that I’ve had a religious upbringing (oh so totally wrong), yet even have the gall to patronize me as some victim! The simple fact is that I haven’t said anything about anti-semitism – you’re the one who keeps bringing it up. You assume to know me merely by my nationality and yet have the nerve of accusing me of categorizing people! The above screed isn’t about me, it’s nothing but a collection of stereotypes, figments of your rabid imagination. Your arrogance is quite astounding.

Until then, they have no right to even open their mouth.

Honestly, I preferred Bluewings’s voltairian sentiments. Perhaps you should ask the moderators to have me banned. Just out of curiosity, are there others that have no right no open their mouths, other than Israelis?

The bombing is aimed at stopping chemical weapons and advanced weapon systems from seeping from Syria’s arsenal into the hands or Iran’s proxies in Lebanon, a somewhat more immediate (both politically and geographically) danger to Israel than Jihadists in Mali pose to either France or the UK.

What is it Harris said you sow the wind you reap the whirlwind

It’s from the Bible, Hosea 8.

Israeli A-4s entered service in 1967 and were flying leaflet-dropping missions over Gaza last November.