Fox News Video Allegedly Shows Israeli Special Forces Returning From A Mission In Syria -- Business Insider
Fox News has published a video which it says "captured, for the very first time, Israeli commandos coming back from inside Syria on a mission."
While not very surprising (if accurate), the video raises some interesting aspects of Israel's role in the 26-month-old conflict on its northern border.
First, Israeli soldiers returning from Syria highlights what the country means by intervention, as apparently sending commandos into Syria doesn't count.
The official Israeli position on Syria is that “Israel has so far refrained from intervening in Syria’s civil war and will maintain this policy as long as Assad refrains from attacking Israel directly or indirectly,” which is what a senior Israeli official told the New York Times this week.
Israel has executed three unilateral airstrikes inside Syria since January — one of which hit Assad's mountain stronghold in Damascus — based on the conviction that it will not allow sophisticated weaponry to be transferred to Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
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My Comment: I expect Mossad to be observing (and spying) WMD movements in Syria .... and producing reports on what is the state of the Syrian civil war that is independent from Syrian/rebel/international reports .... but sending Israeli commandos into Syria .... if this report is true it this is telling me that there is probably more happening on the border than what they are telling us.
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