Israel Ucensored: What Does US Strike on Syria Mean for Israel?

[Music] Josh hastin here Israel uncensored Land of Israel network at the Land of Israel calm it is Sunday April 15 2018 the 30th of Nisan 5 7 7 8 hope you're doing well in your part of the world we're gonna get right to it on today's program because of everything going on here in the Middle East specifically northern Israel Syria really the US and their coalition with Great Britain and France over the weekend fired 100 missiles in response to the Assad chemical attack last week that is the top story in the news I was getting I was getting all these buzzes on my phone over Shabbat I don't check my phone but I was getting all these buzzes I knew something was going on and lo and behold the US did in fact attack some of the chemical capabilities of the Assad regime so joining us now on the line is Anna Erin hi I'm the military and defense correspondent for The Jerusalem Post to talk about everything going on with in regard to the Syrian situation and a welcome to Israel uncensored afternoon good afternoon and thanks so much for joining us and it is now Sunday about 5:00 p.m. israel time what can you tell us what is the latest development in terms of the situation with Syria and specifically the u.s. strike over the weekend like you said the one o'clock in the morning Saturday is real time the the US France and the UK launched on a hundred missiles for several different military regime sites that are used for chemical weapon development production and research the the strikes really destroyed a lot of these centers today it's been quite quiet there's been a lot of reaction still coming in but nothing really operationally wise that has gone on the last few hours on the front page of today's Jerusalem Post you talk about one of the major issues which could affect Israel and that being the Russian supply of the s-300 systems to Syria if you can't explain how that would damage Israel's air superiority here in the region if in fact those missiles those those systems are put into place they're correct there the Russian has been mentioned yesterday that in response to the strikes that Russia was once again possibly reconsider supplying the s-300 advanced air defense system to Syria again this is just possibly reconsider it's not something that is definitely on the table the Russians did say that this is something that they refused to do a few years back out of concern from the West but now they're they're saying that this is a possibility again but you have to remember that the Russians have already deployed the same system to Syria along with her as 400 advanced system and these are two systems which if you buy the Russians are capable of tracking and intercepting aircraft and ballistic missiles over 380 kilometers away meaning all of Israel if it jet takes off from the south and I'm on air base the Syrian who would see that on their their radar again if they do get the system but again the Syrians have already used their air defense systems against Israeli missiles and a judge and we saw in February ready that jet was downed by one of these system right so that's definitely something that Israel needs to pay attention to but let me ask you in regard to the strikes over the weekend I'm hearing a lot of different commentary a lot of people are saying that this was just to send a message that this the overall the strikes aren't really going to do anything long-term in terms of regime change in terms of maybe these strikes won't even deter Assad from using this type of weapon in the future in your opinion based on what you know what do you think the overall effects are of the strikes there there is a lot of talk that you know this was just oh this was just an act that like you said won't do much to prevent Assad from carrying out similar attacks the 20 administration last year already struck an acid airbase after the chemical weapons attack on consejo which was actually carried out almost a year to the date of what we saw in duma the thing is when you're only striking chemical weapon facilities and you're not striking any real military sites like air bases where the Jets took off from if you're not going and really getting to the core to the basic part of the Assad regime its military then the chances are he will just continue in doing what he does he has the backing of Iran and he has the backing of Russia and the Russian Air Force is pretty much the outside air force at the same time as all this is going on you also reported earlier this morning down in the South that another Hamas tunnel was detected by the IDF and destroyed at least five tunnels destroyed over the last several months apparently this one was one of the biggest if not the biggest tunnel discovered what can you tell us about this latest terror tunnel of course we've had the weekly Friday violent demonstrations I would call them attempts by Hamas and terror elements to infiltrate Israel what would you say and what can you talk about in terms of the latest terror tunnel discovered down in southern Israel well like you said it was the fifth tunnel discovered so far this I believe since October that has been destroyed coughing into Israel but there were at least three other tunnels that were destroyed inside Gaza itself the tunnel that was destroyed yesterday was connected to several other tunnels a network of underground tunnels in Gaza built by the huh built by Hamas there were other tunnels that were destroyed since October several of them belong to Islamic Jihad this one the Army says was ready for use it was built beginning after the end of operation perspective eyes in 2014 I mean three years of tunneling it reached about 20 meters inside Israel so it's a significant tunnel but again the armies that did not pose a threat and it was a monitor and watch since the work began on on its construction of course will have to pay attention to the situation in the south and in the north and it's been a hectic period here here in Israel but I want to thank you for your time Anna Erin hi check her out she is the military and defense correspondent for The Jerusalem Post several front page articles today as a result of the situation here in the Middle East let's hope for quiet let's stay safe and keep up your good work and informing us about what is going on here in Israel and how it affects us I want to thank you so much for joining us here on Israel uncensored on the Land of Israel network at the Land of Israel calm have a great week you too take care thank you all the best and we're gonna take a short break and be right back with much more news everything going on here in Israel in the Middle East my name is Josh East and this is his real uncensored the Land of Israel network on the Land of Israel calm you can get in touch with me during the week Josh at the Land of Israel calm on Twitter at Josh hastin and on Facebook Joshua hastin big shout out to Ben breasts key for making this all happen engineer extraordinaire we'll take a short break and we'll be right back who are we as a people who are we as a nation what does it mean to be a Jew in the Land of Israel as a Jew in Judea what message to the world we're finally back in our land and we get to ask these questions this Ratish em we're gonna make Judea and Samaria an issue for the entire world to know that the Jews have a place in the world Israel inspired with aria Brom Woods and Jeremy compelled on the Land of Israel network at the Land of Israel calm and we are back hastened here Israel uncensored from the Land of Israel network at the Land of Israel calm it is April 15 2018 hope you're doing well in your part of the world I want to thank again Anna Erin Haim the military and defense correspondent for The Jerusalem Post for all the inside and everything going on in Syria and again the u.s. strike their 100 projectiles roughly twice the amount of firepower that President Trump launched against a Syrian airstrip one year ago of course in response to the chemical weapons attack just last week the president said he was going to do something didn't give exact details wouldn't give a timetable and then I was getting these crazy buzzes all through Shabbat I knew something was going on and let's see what happens let's see if Assad got the message or if he'll continue on his path here is something interesting The Jerusalem Post points out the declassified documents provided by Paris a seven page long document talking about the Assad regime and how this was revealed that they are maintaining this covert chemical arms program even though five years ago they said they would shut it down now let's remember five years ago at that time the J post reports US President Barack Obama declined to enforce his red line declared a year earlier six years ago to strike at Assad militarily in the aftermath of another gas attack a sarin gas attack that killed hundreds of children remember the president said that he had this red line and he failed to strike Syria at that point remember that and at the same time you had the UN organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons they were also involved and they actually got the Peace Prize the Nobel Peace Prize for work that year because of this apparent deal with Syria and that they wouldn't use chemical weapons they went over the redline the Obama administration did nothing and John Kerry the Secretary of State at the time said that the US would remove 100 percent of Syria's Syria's chemical weapons how ironic now here we are six years later and the Assad regime is still targeting their own people with chemical weapons all that being said herb kanan and we talked about this with Anna a little bit points out that Saturday zyk in his words attack does not threaten Assad its it threatens his chemical arsenal but not his regime because Russia won't allow him to be toppled so long-term it looks like Assad is here to stay and even with this attack I mean who knows nikki Haley sent a message that the u.s. is locked and loaded if necessary but who knows how much longer Assad will be in charge there in Syria if decisive action is not taken but it doesn't look like that is the plan that is the goal right now Anna also reported over over the weekend it also mentioned in this morning's Jerusalem Post remember that Iranian drone which was destroyed in February by Israel that came into Israel's airspace well apparently that drone was armed with explosives and it was in the midst of carry out an attack against the Jewish state the IDF said on Friday the interception of the Iranian an unmanned aircraft by an attack helicopter prevented in the Iranian intent to carry out an attack against the State of Israel read a statement by the army so that wasn't just a somebody having fun with a toy drone or that wasn't just to send a message that apparently was an attack drone on its way to try to murder Israelis and thank God that was intercepted by our alert Israel Defense Forces at the same time of course down in the south apparently the demonstration if you want to call it that I would call it the attempted infiltrations the terror activity on the Gaza border with Israel on Friday this out of the three Friday's in a row this was I guess the weakest of the three instead of burning tires though they burnt Israeli flags reports of burning of American flags that was going on our IDF troops though protecting us on Israel's southern border thank God the snipers in place over the weekend and thank God it was not as busy down there even though there was still attempted infiltration still a lot of stuff going on down there and of course the discovery of the terror tunnel the Islamic Jihad terror group they were busy trying to get some of their terror tools in place to strike against Israel but sometimes it doesn't work out as planned reported by Reuters Islamic Jihad said four of its members were killed in an apparent accidental blast in Gaza on Saturday the group said it was mourning its fighters who were martyred during preparations in other words this was going to be god forbid it could have been some horrible terror attack against Israel but lo and behold God had other plans and the terrorists for them at least detonated this device and killed themselves in the process so that's some good news to report also a large explosion another large explosion reported in Syria at an Iranian base this according to Times of Israel staff late Saturday at an Iranian weapons depot according to an Arabic language media source the Depot said to be one of the biggest in the country near Aleppo being used by Iran's Lebanese proxy that would beef is Bella and other Iranian militias in Syria only somebody strike them was that the u.s. was it Israel was it some type of accident as well who knows what happened but at a parent of but apparently in addition to Trump's strike on Friday night there was another explosion Saturday night and once again directing our attention to the South I mean we're going back and forth north-south north-south all throughout the show today this past week a member of the Hamas terror organization was killed overnight on Friday by out by IDF fire in Gaza his name is Mohammed ela he was part of a cell that carried out a deadly attack during Operation protective edge and a number of idea IAF fighter jets attacked terror target inside a military compound here reported by J&I media belonging to Hamas and the attack came in response to the detonating of an explosive device against an IDF bulldozer near the border fence on Thursday so this was a bad bad person an evil individual who was killed after he and his terror friends killed five soldiers in the 2014 war in Gaza but you could run and hide but eventually justice will be served and the IDF will get you and that was the case here switching gears here and Frank has been in the news a lot over the last week or so it was Holocaust Remembrance and heroism day here in Israel and around the world this past Wednesday and Anne Frank was in the news for several reasons number one reported here by the Times of Israel one of the staffers at the Anne Frank House and Amsterdam was forbade from wearing a kippah this was a Jew working at the Anne Frank House and the management there told him get rid of your keepa your yarmulke 25 year old Barry fingerling was told to remove his keep up on upon showing up to his first day of work at the Museum according to a report in the Dutch and the judges Dutch Jewish weekly I believe it's n I W museum officials explained that the Anne Frank House had a policy against donning religious symbols that would break with their neutrality efforts according to the newspaper so his comment Berry's common VIN VIN Girling he said quote I work in the house of Anne Frank who had to hide because of her identity in that same house I should have to hide my own identity this is completely ridiculous apparently management deliberated after four months said that this guy could whereas keep imagine in the Anne Frank House you can't wear a kippah because of their their policy but maybe it's not surprising after learning that reported by our good friend Gil Hoffmann here from the land of Israel Network reported in the jape oh so that proceeds of the Anne Frank diary are now going to the new Israel fund who is the new Israel fund this is a extremist radical organization that receives funding from foreign governments that tries to influence policy here in Israel it's an organization that supports other organizations with ties to terror Carolyn Glick wrote about this extensively in her column in The Jerusalem Post on Friday but what's going on here is that the memory of Anne Frank unfortunately is being hijacked I know that this is a decision which is being which was made I guess by the Anne Frank foundation founded by her father Otto Frank which administers her diary but it's a shame it's a shame that this radical organization is now going to be collecting on the sails of Anne Frank's diary this is not this is it's called the new Israel fund as because it is it's called the new ones were fun for a reason they don't like the way Israel is they want to change Israel they want to get the Judaism out of Israel they don't like the way Israel is they want to influence and impose all this radicalism here and they won't in introduce their brand of fanaticism here and I'm talking about so-called left-wing fanaticism and support these organization which do damage to the State of Israel they fund them the new Israel fund so now unfortunately sales from this book the Diary of Anne Frank have been hijacked I guess willingly by the and Frank foundation and it's truly truly unfortunate what's going on check out Carolyn glicks column from this past Friday J post to learn everything about the situation there with Anne Frank a blessed memory and other news here we're getting ready of course this is a big week in Israel Memorial Day Yama's e Quran followed by Israel's independence day omits MA it all begins Tuesday night with Memorial Day and yet here are others who seem to be wanting to hijack Yama's e car on Memorial Day and it's not the first time it happens year after year members of a group of bereaved families who want to join with Arabs in order to commemorate Memorial Day on the surface it seems like you know this would be this is perhaps a worthy cause coming together or whatnot but comparing the idea of soldiers and the victims of terror who were killed in battle or murdered by terrorists to those terrorists themselves and having the families of those terrorists come together with Israelis to mourn on Israel's Memorial Day is way out of line in my opinion but the the story here the news here is that several hundred members of bereaved families signed a petition supporting avec du Lieberman our defense minister who's preventing the entry of Gaza Arabs to participate in this joint memorial ceremony apparently it means that the Arabs from Judea and Samaria will be allowed to participate in the ceremony but he is he's preventing the Arabs from Gaza from coming in and of course this is going to be this is up there with the High Court of Justice those who want to hold this ridiculous ceremony want to be allowed to do so they're bringing it up to the High Court we'll see how the High Court rules but I guess anything makes sense in this day and age when I saw images of Jews nonetheless who were saying Kaddish over the Hamas terrorists who were killed in Gaza trying to infiltrate Israel and attack our communities and the fact that you had 20 or 30 terrorists died as a result of their activities as a result of Hamas is activity and then you have Jews who are saying Kaddish I guess in New York for these people I guess anything is possible so I guess it's believable that there's an event in which the mothers and fathers of terrorists gather with Israelis who lost loved ones fighting those terrorists or who perished in terror attacks coming together I guess anything is possible but that's you know that's the fringe and let's not let's not let that group take away from the meaningful and important and a very emotional day which is Memorial Day here in Israel I mean there's no other time period in the year that's like this period you have Passover and then the Holocaust Remembrance in heroism day followed by Memorial Day yo mozi Corona yo Mott smote and then you have Jerusalem day like about Oh mer Shabbat one after another there's nothing like this in the world so if you have an experience that the highs and the lows come to Israel and see it for yourselves we're gonna finish with some positive news here before we go lawmakers in Honduras on Thursday voted to relocate the country's Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem Israel a quote here by the foreign ministry spokesperson Emmanuel Knox shown Israel congratulate congratulate the National Congress of Honduras for pramatta for passing with an overwhelming majority a resolution in favor of opening an embassy in Jerusalem the measure was approved 59 to 33 it has to be approved now by the executive branch but hopefully it's a done deal so we have Guatemala we have the US and hopefully now Honduras is joining them and moving their embassy to Israel's unified undividable capital of Jerusalem and we'll end with that on today's program everyone out there let's have a meaningful llamo Z Corona Memorial Day remember everyone who gave their lie so that we could live as Jews here in the Land of Israel have our first Army in over two thousand years and live as free men and women in the Land of Israel let's never forget their sacrifice and also of course remembering the victims of terror who also paid the ultimate price so that we could live here as Jews in the Land of Israel and then let's party hard on the 70th anniversary of the modern day State of Israel who would have thunk it unbelievable starting Wednesday night Thursday the whole country will turn into one big party since it's 70 a round number this year especially a lot of events being planned everywhere throughout the country and let's all have a good time let's be safe most importantly between now and when we talk again next week and I'll just give you my contact information one last time Josh at the Land of Israel calm is my email on Facebook it's Joshua Easton on Twitter at Josh hastin talk Sameach happy Israel Independence Day 5 7 7 8 2018 to everyone out there again between now and when we talk again next week everyone be safe Shalom Shalom from Gush Etzion Israel