Opinion  Nahum Barnea
The Iranian game of chess: More moves are on the way
Nahum Barnea
Published: 11.02.18, 23:44
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1. U talk about one downed F16 -what about damage done to
A|an   (02.12.18)
Iran in Syria and Syrian Army and UAV base in Homs area? They wont forget it Sounds good for the Arab and EU media that Israel lost a F16 but give us a full accounting of Syrian and Iranian deaths and materiel losses .NOT INSIGNIFICANT ..... 12 SITES attacked!!!
Both Airmen are safe (of course the Pilot was severely wounded but now upgraded to "moderate".) B H
2. Frank and to the point.
IranMan   (02.12.18)
3. The great Nahum Is the king of ynet
Tehraniporou   (02.12.18)
It was a while since your last article. Increase his salary by 40pr cent, the public needs an article a week!
4. a game of chess -
SM ,   In the West   (02.12.18)
As if we dont already know that Russia is an enemy. Most of us worked that out a long time ago. Just like we worked out that there will never be peace with the muslims while we are breathing. They hate us because of who we are. Because it tells them to kill us in their quran and they are happy to pursue that directive.

The author missed something important - Israel did NOT necessarily lose its ability to operate as it has, and until a few more missions are flown we wont know if there is really any change at all.

Reports say that the IAF admitted that they had been flying too high and were still in range of the SA-5s fired at it. This hasn't happened before. They could have avoided the missiles by flying lower.

So straight after the F16 was downed - the IAF simply modified its procedure and flew straight back into syria and took out another 12 targets - and all aircraft returned home without loss. An impressive feat that ANY air force would like to achieve.

Also, after 100 plus missions into syria, finally the enemy gets one aircraft. More aircraft are lost in training accidents!

An IDF spokesman said that the enemy "would be very surprised at what we targeted"...So, if this is a game of chess - its highly probable that the enemy might have lost a lot more than just a pawn as was mentioned by the author...
5. Hype
News ,   Jerusalem   (02.12.18)
What a load of fairytale reporting, either write factually coherent or not write at all
6. Well thought-out article
Tarek ,   Toronto   (02.12.18)
Great Op-ed from YNet. The analysis brought forward in this article are consistent with the events that are occurring and do provide a plausible explanation to the actions of the Russians, Americans, and Iranians.
7. Iranian chess players crash their head against Israel Wall
Steve Benassi ,   Minneapolis USA   (02.12.18)
8. Iranians counted on stealth drone given to them by Obama was
ab   (02.12.18)
really invisible.
They might be now more shaken than Barnea the drone was shot down.
Freedom of action over Gallile should have never been assumed, ground to ground rockets arriving in the IDF first now should have been ordered long time ago.
The main aim of the IDF should now be inventing electronic jamming of S-500 Russian missiles, hopefully it's done already.
We don't know it ,but the Russians don't either.
9. THE BARRIER HAS BEEN BROKEN
otto pilc   (02.12.18)
AS ADMIRAL YAMATO QUOTED AFTER THE PEARL HARBOR ATTACK (we
have awaken a sleeping giant) IRAN HAS DONE THE SAME THE MIGHTY IDF IS WAKING UP . WITH THE CAPACITY TO TURN IRAN BACK TI THE 6TH CENTURY
10. barnea doesn't seem to get it
ray   (02.12.18)
Russia acts according to its interests. they switch allies like socks. Putin plays bibi's fears since bibi wants others to defend israel. He himself is not a fighter like Sharon was. so he gets taken in much as he kisses trumps rear end because he wants trump to do Israel's work for it.

Israel has to depend on itself and the diaspora. anything else is a bonus. if Russians manning convoys to nasrollah, then Israel has to eliminate them after warning Putin to stay away. no one else is going to do Israel's fighting for it.

barnea, you should be asking what can you do to help Israel rather than cynically criticize. that, you don't seem to understand.

one plane went down after all these years. Israel will learn and adjust. and if Syria shoots down many of Israel's planes in the Galilee, then Syria will lose part of its country.

if you see where barnea is headed, he is like the haaretz writers-give it all up, scrap israel, become a jewish province of Arab Palestine and then all will be well. Jews have been through that before and it doesn't work.

barnea should be asking himself-what can i do to help Israel. all you do now is write defeatist demoralizing articles.
11. Dont believe this meddling in other countries is popular on
A|an   (02.12.18)
Iranian Street. Remember the recent demonstrations against inflation and financial difficulties for Iranian persons/public. They regard meddling in other countries in M E as waste of money (Obama's money gift)
12. Misunderstands US
Roger   (02.12.18)
I think this article has it wrong. This was a big blunder by Iran. It gave Israel plenty of public permission to go after the Iranians wherever. This cannot make Putin happy because no way does he want to deal with Israel in Syria. That could upset everything. Also, Putin knows - and the author should know - that the Trump administration would absolutely back up Israel in military crisis, no question. This is the most pro-ISrael administration ever. What is Barnea thinking?
13. Anyone for a holiday in Iran?
Tim ,   Brighton   (02.12.18)
Enjoy the cultural delights of flag burning, death chants and hate speech and learn all about Irans DARK AGE

Enjoy the constant monitoring of your movements whereever you go

With the ever present risk of false arrest, torture and execution


14. Barnea gets it wrong again.
Rebaaron   (02.12.18)
Israel has complete air and theater superiority. The Iranian bases etc. were demolished - missile defenses annihilatedand Iranian sites destroyed. The operational center that launched the drone is no more.
Any missile attacks on Israel will be met by missile attacks on Tehran.
15. Israel Should Want War Now
Matt   (02.12.18)
It's obvious that Lebanon, Syria and Hamas (with Iran's help) are preparing for war with Israel. They don't want war now because their preparations are not necessarily complete. Why wait until they are completely prepared? Waiting will only make things worse.

16. Barnea : " UNINTENIONAL " ! ! absurd
Moshe Israel ,   Tivon, Israel   (02.12.18)
Nahum Barnea "Most wars in the Middle East were the result of an UNINTENTIONAL development, a game of chicken that went wrong, an overly successful act of terror, public pressure on the political echelon. "

UNINTENTIONAL ?? Absurd !
(0) 1948 War was a fight for SURVIVAL ...not carefully planned by the enemy
(1) Yom Kippur 1973 was carefully planned by the enemy, executed in cold blood.
(2) Gaza , Lebanon ...maybe , but how can Barnea possibly prove a lack of intention ?.

Moshe Israel
17. On humanity's front._.
This human ,   Notmdwhumanhands   (02.12.18)
we have no one to rely on but the One who is more than mere human.
18. EXCELLENT ANALYSIS... You have Putin down exactly.
Rafi ,   US   (02.12.18)
The other major activity Israel should now consider is further beefing up of national CIVIL DEFENSE. That will enable the civilian front to successfully endure some potentially long days ahead.
19. Nothing Imbecile Barnea writes is worth a moment reading
Steve Benassi ,   Minneapolis USA   (02.12.18)
20. 12 Israeli fighter jets destroyed 50% of Syria air defences
Steve Benassi ,   Minneapolis USA   (02.13.18)
in less than 30 minutes.

Next Iranian chess move the rest will be destroyed.

What is Imbecile Barnea babbling about?
21. Totally wrong analysis
Pav ,   Ny   (02.14.18)
1. There has been no change in israeli fighting strength from the loss of one fighter.
2. It took 20 missiles to bring down 1 high flying target. Thats despite setting the trap ahead of time and being on full readiness. Pathetic.
3. They lost 8 antiaircraft sites. If its true, its half their AA batteries..that is a huge cost.
4. The iranians lost 4 sites. Who knows what they were for. The Israelis know so thats something. They lost their uav fleet and operation room. They gave the israelis a copy of their us cloned uav. Oh, and their stealth uav was spotted right away despite coming in through Jordan.
How is that anything but a massive loss to the iran,russia,syria axis?
Even the russians haf to accept f16I's bombing a few meters from them without response.
Prez Obama refused to send planes over syria due to the difficulty of avoiding the syrian AA batteries. The israelis wiped these out in minutes


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