{"id":139582,"date":"2014-09-23T15:18:34","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T15:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=139582"},"modified":"2014-09-23T15:18:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-23T15:18:34","slug":"israel-help-us-downing-syrian-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/israel-help-us-downing-syrian-jet\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Israel help US by downing Syrian jet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Jonathan Cook\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today the US \u2014 backed by \u201cmoderate\u201d Arab states like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar and Jordan \u2014 started bombing territory in another sovereign state, Syria, without a UN Security Council resolution or a plausible argument that it is acting in self-defence.\u00a0That makes it a crime of aggression, defined at Nuremberg as \u201cthe supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that\u00a0<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a sign that Obama\u2019s war on ISIS in Syria could\u00a0quickly\u00a0be extended into a war against Syrian president Bashar Assad, Israel downed a Syrian jet <em>inside<\/em> Syria this morning with a US-funded Patriot missile.<\/p>\n<p>According to Israel, the Syrian plane had passed 800 metres into its territory before heading back into Syria, during what the Israeli media say was a sortie against \u201crebels\u201d operating close to the Israeli border (that\u2019s right \u2014 the people Obama is currently bombing but whose injuries\u00a0are being\u00a0mended in Israeli hospitals).<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we only have Israel\u2019s word for it that the plane briefly crossed into Israeli territory, but watch to see how completely the western media will assume Israel\u2019s story to be the only valid account.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/blog\/2014-09-23\/did-israel-help-us-by-downing-syrian-jet\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Cook\u00a0 Today the US \u2014 backed by \u201cmoderate\u201d Arab states like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar and Jordan \u2014 started bombing territory in another sovereign state, Syria, without a UN Security Council resolution or a plausible argument that it is acting in self-defence.\u00a0That makes it a crime of aggression, defined at Nuremberg as \u201cthe supreme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-139582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-war-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}