The Israeli military on Sunday launched “Operation Arrow of Bashan,” utilizing as soon as once more a biblical allusion to explain a navy marketing campaign – on this case in opposition to Syria’s navy belongings and capabilities.
Since the autumn of the Bashar Assad regime over the weekend, the Israeli military launched into an intensive air marketing campaign that focused navy websites throughout Syria, together with strikes on the Syrian ports of al-Beida and Latakia that destroyed the Syrian navy fleet.
The Israeli military additionally introduced it has “temporarily” seized management of a demilitarized buffer zone within the Golan Heights, saying the 1974 disengagement settlement with Syria had “collapsed.”
According to Israeli navy estimates, some 80% of the Syrian military’s capabilities and belongings have to this point been destroyed, together with fighter jets, helicopters, tanks, warships, radars and varied sorts of rockets.
Operation Arrow of Bashan
In a navy assertion, Israeli Army Radio stated the operation in opposition to Syria was named “Operation Arrow of Bashan.”
“Bashan” is a biblical time period referring to the lands south of Syria and east of Jordan that was conquered by Israelites after defeating Og, the king of Bashan, based on the Old Testament.
The Israeli military has lengthy drawn the names of its wars and fight operations from the non secular texts of the Torah in addition to different historic non secular narratives to strengthen a declare of divine entitlement to justify its colonial ambitions within the area.
In the course of the Israeli genocidal struggle on Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu additionally invoked biblical references to justify his military’s struggle crimes in opposition to Palestinians.
On Oct. 28, final yr, Netanyahu used the biblical Amalek narrative whereas inciting his troopers to assault Gaza – a violent idea that refers to completely crushing the inhabitants of Gaza, together with its girls and youngsters.
In early January, the South African authorized crew used Netanyahu’s incitement to genocide – the biblical Amalek narrative – in opposition to the Palestinian individuals in Gaza within the first listening to session earlier than the International Court of Justice in its genocide lawsuit in opposition to Israel.
Source: www.dailysabah.com