(BESA Center for Strategic Studies-Bar-Ilan University) Yaakov Lappin - Israel is making clear to Iran and its agents that it has no intention of allowing them to proceed with their plans to create a military outpost in Syria. Israel's new aerial strike capabilities might well surpass any display of air power seen in military history thus far. The Israel Air Force, together with the Military Intelligence Directorate of the IDF, has been quietly developing the ability to use precise intelligence, combined with precision-guided weaponry, to destroy up to several thousand targets in just a matter of hours. As ISIS crumbles and the remainder of the Syrian Sunni rebels face defeat in Syria, Iran, which runs Assad's ground war, will be free to shift the focus of its Syrian presence towards Israel. The writer is a research associate at the BESA Center.
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