{"id":151998,"date":"2015-05-18T16:47:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T16:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=151998"},"modified":"2015-05-18T16:47:18","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T16:47:18","slug":"more-evidence-of-israels-dirty-role-in-the-syrian-proxy-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/more-evidence-of-israels-dirty-role-in-the-syrian-proxy-war\/","title":{"rendered":"More Evidence of Israel\u2019s Dirty Role in the Syrian Proxy War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Steven MacMillan<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Video footage surfaced last week showing the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) treating a wounded anti-Assad Syrian rebel, following a UN report at the end of last year which found that the IDF and the Syrian rebels (including ISIS) were in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.in\/un-report-israel-regular-contact-syrian-rebels-including-isis-616404\" target=\"_blank\">regular contact<\/a>. The Times of Israel reported on this latest video in an article titled,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/idf-posts-footage-of-medics-saving-syrian-rebel-in-golan\/\" target=\"_blank\">IDF posts footage of medics saving Syrian rebel in Golan<\/a>:<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cThe IDF <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1901941270\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Saturday<\/span><\/span> released rare footage of its medics performing a life-saving procedure on one of the most severely wounded Syrian combatants medical personnel have encountered in the Golan Heights\u2026 The man, a Syrian rebel who belongs to an unnamed organization fighting against the Assad regime and its allies, received treatment at the border and then inside Israel, and was ultimately able to return to Syria\u2026 Since the start of the civil war in 2011, the IDF has treated an estimated 1,600 non-combatants and anti-Assad rebels\u2026 Although Israel\u2019s treatment of militants from Syria \u2013 many of whom are believed to belong to Islamist organizations such as the al-Qaeda affiliated Nusra Front \u2013 may seem bizarre given the animosity these types of groups have expressed for the Jewish state in the past, Israel has approached the issue from a humanitarian point of view.\u201d<\/span><\/em><u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">The Times of Israel tries to spin Israel\u2019s assistance to the Syrian rebels as purely \u201cfrom a humanitarian point of view\u201d, in reality however, Israel supports the Syrian opposition for its own geopolitical ends. Weakening the Syrian regime has been a geopolitical objective of the Israeli establishment for decades, with strategic papers dating back to the 1980\u2019s detailing this goal. Oded Yinon, an Israeli journalist who had close connections to the Foreign Ministry in Israel, wrote an article in 1982 which was published in a journal of the World Zionist Organisation titled: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationclearinghouse.info\/pdf\/The%20Zionist%20Plan%20for%20the%20Middle%20East.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties<\/a>\u201d. In it, Yinon outlines that the \u201cdissolution of Syria and Iraq\u201d are \u201cIsrael\u2019s primary\u201d objectives in the region:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journal-neo.org\/2015\/05\/18\/more-evidence-of-israel-s-dirty-role-in-the-syrian-proxy-war\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven MacMillan Video footage surfaced last week showing the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) treating a wounded anti-Assad Syrian rebel, following a UN report at the end of last year which found that the IDF and the Syrian rebels (including ISIS) were in\u00a0regular contact. The Times of Israel reported on this latest video in an article [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-151998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151998","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=151998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}