By Ziad Fadel
The shooting down of an Israeli warplane by Syria has not been
reported by Western and Israeli media sources. According to Sputnik, on
August 21, “the Israeli Air Force resumed airstrikes on Western Syria,
targeting a government army base at Khan Al-Sheih in Damascus province
and another in the al-Quneitra province after a six-hour halt in attacks
that followed their multiple air raids over the Golan Heights.”

Fars News Agency (FNA) also confirmed the Israeli attacks and the shooting down of an Israeli fighter plane

The Syrian air defense system shot down an Israeli warplane violating the Arab country’s air space.

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Yesterday, Friday, August 21, 2015 in the early hours, Damascus time,
an Israeli US made F-16 fighter-bomber, flew into Syrian airspace
brazenly and fired at Brigade 68 and, then, turned and flew back toward
Brigade 90 in Qunaytra in order to insure a safe landing in occupied
Palestine if the aircraft was struck.  It was struck.  An SA-9 from the Iftiraas Air Defense Base and an SA-2 near the Khalkhaala AB
were fired.  But, the technical wizardry was most on display when an
S-300 (SA-10 “Grumble) super-air-defense missile was fired from the
Republican Guard base near the Mazza AB at the foot of Qaasiyoon Mountain
west of Damascus.  This was done so that the F-16’s electronic
countermeasures would first fix on the SA-2 and SA-9 while the S-300
plowed forward to exterminate the vermin inside the Israeli aircraft.  
The S-300 vaporized the Israeli bomber.  No evidence was seen of the
pilot ejecting.  Instead, eyewitness accounts described a ball of fire
over the Golan and the remains scattering into the air over the Huleh Valley in Palestine.

Also, the Israelis lost 2 helicopters while flying missions over the
Golan Heights in an effort to bolster the sagging morale of the Takfiri
rats of Nusra/Alqaeda and Al-Ittihaad Al-Islaami li-Ajnaad Al-Shaam.  
The 2 helicopters went down over the area near Qunaytra City and were
reportedly shot down by shoulder fired, heat-seeking missiles deployed
throughout the Syrian Army.

Syria’s Right to Self Defense

It had to happen, sooner or later.  The seeming diffidence of the
Syrian brass had to transform into a bolder and more pugnacious
articulation of Syria’s right to self-defense.  With Russia now
inevitably bound to the Syrian government for reasons discussed at
length on our website; and Iran, now dazzled by a new role to play in
regional politics;  the green light turned on, finally, with Moscow
withdrawing all restrictions on the use of advanced weaponry sold to the
Syrian military.  If you want to know what the former Joint Chiefs of
Staff Chairman, Martin Dempsey, meant when he told Congress Syria had a
“robust air defense system”, the Zionists just found out for themselves.

Yesterday, there was despondence after Israel assaulted Qunaytra and
killed civilians seated in a public vehicle.  The Israelis also killed
one Syrian soldier and wounded several others in the Brigade 68 base.

Via Wikimapia: http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=33.080898&lon=36.612282&z=12&m=b
But, the Syrian Army Chief of Staff, in consultation with the
president and the Defense Minister, had no intention of letting this
episode slide by especially in light of President Putin’s recent meeting
with the Turkish ambassador in Moscow during which he flatly told the
diplomat that relations with Turkey would be severed if Erdoghan did not
stop supporting terrorism.  It also came just after Sergei Lavrov
called the Saudi foreign minister an “imbecile” just as the latter was
renouncing any intention to treat with the Syrian government.  There is a
new belligerency in both Moscow and Teheran and it is being translated
into action over Syria.

Ziad Fadel, Attorney for 35 years and Supreme Court Certified Interpreter for Arabic/English