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“At 17:35 today Islamic Jihad fired four rockets at northern Israel from the Syrian Golan Heights. Two rockets hit the Upper Galilee and two hit the Israeli Golan Heights.
In response, IAF and artillery targeted 14 Syrian military posts in the Syrian Golan Heights.
Iran sponsored these attacks. These were clear and intentional acts of aggression, directly violating Israelis sovereignty. The IDF holds the Syrian government responsible for all attacks emanating from Syrian territory and will continue to protect and safeguard the State of Israel.” (An IDF Spokesperson statement, 20/08/2015)
“An IED was hurled at #IDF soldier manning a position near Har Gilo. The soldier suffered moderate wounds [and] is being transferred to hospital.” (IDF spokesperson Lt Col Peter Lerner via Twitter, 19/08/2015)
“I would like to commend IDF soldiers and commanders in general, and those of Northern Command in particular, for safeguarding our borders and maintaining quiet along them, despite what is happening on the other side, for their professionalism, which is allowing thousands of tourists to travel throughout the north.
On the Golan Heights it is not quiet and those who do not want quiet are the Iranians, who are trying to use proxies to carry out attacks against us.
Representatives of the Revolutionary Guards are currently waiting for the implementation of the bad agreement that is being formulated with the major powers in order to send more money to Hezbollah and the other terrorist organizations, both on the Golan Heights and in the Palestinian arena. Of course, the IDF is prepared; it will continue to not allow violations of sovereignty on the Golan Heights.” (Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon during a visit to the Golan Heights with PM Netanyahu and Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot, 18/08/2015)
We spare no opportunity to support anyone #FightingTheZionists. We support the resistance in Palestine and the region, and take all possible means to support anyone who fights against Israel, is against the Zionist regime and supports the resistance. (Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenai, via Twitter, 17/08/2015)
“I’m very glad to see you here and I think it’s a unique privilege for me personally and I think also for the state, both the conference that you’re coming in for – science – but also this time in history, in human history where knowledge and more importantly insight is developing at a rapid pace and we are at the point where we might partake of it. There is still a great battle between modernity and medievalism, early medievalism, which is being waged around us. We’re in the vortex of that battle, but I have no doubt that ultimately modernity wins. It always does, but sometimes at great cost.
No one makes peace with the weak. No one. And so we have to be powerful for peace and for our future and for the prosperity of our people and for modernity to beat medievalism. I view the core of that power, the engine that is represented in this room right now, that’s the core of our power: the power of the mind. That’s what we need and that’s what you represent and that’s what we admire.” (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting 15 Nobel sciences laureates at the World Science Conference – Israel, 16/08/2015)
“I met this week with dozens of Democratic and Republican lawmakers who travelled to Israel to hear our take on the nuclear deal with Iran.
I told them, regardless of their political affiliation, what I have said time and time again: this is a deal that could endanger Israel’s security, it might spur terrorism against us and might turn Iran into a nuclear threshold state in 10-15 years’ time.
Any patriotic Israeli that saw Hezbollah’s Nasrallah and Syria’s Assad rejoice in its wake understands as much.” (Israeli opposition and Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog, via Facebook, 12/08/2015)