Israel has made no secret of not
liking the southern Syria ceasefire, negotiated between the US and Russia,
complaining in particular that it doesn’t keep the Syrian government, and its
Iranian allies, totally barred from that part of the country, which they see as
tantamount to letting Iran be too close to the Israeli border.
Israeli Maj. Gen. Yaakov Amidror
is the latest to step up the ever-growing series of threats against Iran over
the matter, attending a briefing with foreign correspondents today and warning that if the US and Russia
don’t resolve Israel’s complaints, the Israeli military will “intervene and
destroy every attempt to build infrastructure in Syria.”
Maj.
Gen. Amidror went on to say that Israel “will not let the Iranians and
Hezbollah be the forces which will win” the Syrian war. This comes less than a
day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted to a live microphone that Israel had attacked
Iranian targets in Syria dozens of times.
Israel
has always been keen on military confrontation with Iran, and this position is
in keeping with repeated
comments from Israeli officials that they would prefer ISIS to gain control over Syria,
because Iran is always “the main enemy.”
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