‘likely’ israeli strikes on military outposts in hama and aleppo reported by state tv

Yep, the proxy war in *iran* has begun anew, as crown prince bin salman is seeking an alliance with israel, eve while noting that the trump I/P peace plan needs to go through, and that ‘Palestinians Should Come to Negotiating Table or Shut Up’, farsnews english

Borrowing from a recent and fascinating essay of Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin’s on gods, goddesses and timelines, ‘The Origins of Violence? Slavery, Extractivism and War’“And the land, hitherto a common possession like the light of the sun and the breezes, the careful surveyor now marked out with long-drawn boundary lines. Not only were corn and needful foods demanded of the rich soil, but men bored into the bowels of the earth, and the wealth she had hidden and covered with Stygian darkness was dug up, an incentive to evil. And now noxious iron and gold more noxious still were produced: and these produced war – for wars are fought with both – and rattling weapons were hurled by bloodstained hands.“

(Ovid, written around 8 AD which laments humanity’s loss of its original Golden condition [Ovid Metamorphoses, Book 1, The Iron Age])

On edit may 1:  i’m going to add some of what i’d added in comments to this mess of a diary.

I’ve been a bit slow on the draw, here, but as increasingly more iranian news agencies are reporting that no iranians were killed in the attack, it seems obvious why western rags report the SOHR figures of 22+ iranians. (SOHR in the UK run by an avowed anti-assadist, funded by UK ad US). iirc. greyson smythe had more information….

 ‘The Real War for Syria is Taking Place in Its Skies’, by Jonathan Cook, april 30

“According to United Nations figures, the Israeli military violated Syrian airspace more than 750 times in the four-month period leading up to last October, with its warplanes and drones spending some 3,200 hours over the country. On average, more than six Israeli aircraft entered Syrian airspace each day in that period.

Powerful rocket strikes reported on two sites in Syria on Sunday were widely attributed to Israel. Since war broke out in Syria just over seven years ago, Israeli fighter jets are believed to have carried out hundreds of offensive missions.

“Israel achieved one major aim early on: Western powers insisted that the Syrian government be disarmed of its large arsenal of chemical weapons, Damascus’s only deterrent against an Israeli nuclear threat.

Since then, Israel’s focus has shifted to Iran and blocking its ambitions on various fronts: to prop up Assad, establish a military presence close to Israel’s northern border and use Syria as a conduit for transferring arms to Hezbollah.

Iran’s aim is to recreate a balance of terror between the two sides and free itself from diplomatic isolation; Israel’s is to maintain its military pre-eminence and dominance of the Middle East’s skies.

In addition, Israel seeks to exploit Syria’s collapse to claim permanent title over the Golan Heights, which it seized from Syria in 1967 and later annexed in violation of international law.”