Sunday, 25 April 2021_Days after the massive explosion which took place near Israel’s Dimona Nuclear Facility, the Israeli regime has fallen silent on the incident in an attempt to eradicate the situation's embarrassing feats from the collective memories of their population.
Thursday morning panic amongst Israelis quickly spread as a massive explosion was reported near Dimona, in the Naqab (Negev), close to where Israel’s secret nuclear facility is located.
The incident, reported throughout Israeli media at roughly 1:34 a.m. (Palestine time), initially sparked speculation on where the explosion had originated with some claiming a rocket was fired from Gaza. These reports were then quickly debunked, as Hebrew media quoted the Israeli military as stating that no such rocket fire had come from the besieged coastal enclave. Israeli media reports then began to emerge, speculating that due to sirens having been triggered around the Dimona area and Israel’s Ariel Sharon military base, a missile could have been fired from Syria.
The Israeli Occupation Forces later issued a statement in which they claimed that a Syrian surface-to-air (SAM) missile had pursued one of its fighter jets and landed in an open area near Dimona. The IDF’s twitter handle had explained that Israel then bombed the Syrian battery from which the missile had come, as a “response”.
Syria’s SANA reported that as a result of Israeli airstrikes on the Dameer area, in the Western countryside of Damascus, 4 of its soldiers had been injured and material damage had been reported.
Most of the Western mainstream press reported that Israel had “responded” to an errant Syrian SAM missile that had hit Israel, whilst the Washington Post speculated that Iran may have been involved. But the narrative of an Israeli response is not even remotely true, even if we are to believe Israel’s exact account of events.
According to Israel’s narrative, Israeli warplanes had attempted to bombard sites in Syria’s south from the occupied Golan Heights and were fired upon by Syrian air defense. If this is indeed the beginning of the story, then it was Syria that responded not Israel. In fact, the second Israeli strikes were just another attack on Syria and an act of war, but when it comes to the Western media, Israel can do no wrong and is always both the victor and the victim.
There is a real reason Israel is desperately attempting to bury this incident and that’s because no matter which way you look at this, Israel looks weak.
Firstly, according to Israel's official narrative, they admit to firing the first shot and also admit to failing to confront a Syrian air defense missile. The Israelis love to claim their superiority in the area of air defenses, bragging about their expensive Iron Dome, David’s Sling and Patriot Missile Systems. But apparently none of their systems were able to confront a single surface-to-air missile which flew approximately 250 kilometers off course. This is also a point of contention for many who argue that the SAM would not have likely made it so far off course.
If Israel’s account is correct, then considering Israel had specifically re-enforced its air defense systems around the occupied Golan and Dimona, its air defense systems are proven completely useless in the face of a real attack. This does massive harm to the reputation of the Israeli regime and its weapons manufacturers.
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