Israel’s Air Dominance Over The Middle East Was Decades In The Making
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Israeli fighter jets fly low during the funeral of the former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and … More Hashem Safieddine, who were killed in Israeli attacks last year, while tens of thousands of mourners attend their funeral in Beirut, Lebanon on February 23, 2025. (Photo by TOUFIC RMEITI/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images) Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images Israeli Air Force fifth- and fourth-generation fighter jets are freely entering Iranian airspace and bombing targets and assassinating high-value military personnel every day with little to no resistance. These jets traverse Syrian and Iraqi airspace en route to their targets, where they encounter no obstacles. While such aerial dominance over three strategically located Middle Eastern countries dramatically accelerated in the post-October 2023 conflicts that raged throughout the region, it was also decades in the making. Fifty Israeli fighters violated Iraq’s airspace on their way to Iran, Baghdad’s representative to the United Nations, Abbas Kadhom Obaid Al-Fatlawi, said on Friday, noting that they came from border areas between neighboring Syria and Jordan. “Twenty airplanes started, followed by 30 airplanes heading to the south of Iraq, and they flew over Basra, Najaf and Karbala cities,” Al-Fatlawi reported. The complaint stands in striking contrast to the deafening silence in neighboring Syria over the Israel-Iran War. IAF warplanes are not only crossing through Syrian airspace several times per day to strike Iran, but they’ve also intercepted a number of suspected Iranian-made drones there, which were either headed for Israel or U.S. bases in the area. Syria’s transitional government doubtlessly wants to avoid becoming entangled in a war or risk confronting the Israelis. Israel already destroyed what was left of that country’s strategic arsenal after the Assad regime collapsed in December. Iraq has American-made F-16s—but they lack any long-range air-to-air missiles. It also has Russian-made Pantsir-S1…
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