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ISRAELI
OFFICIALS: U.S. MUST STRIKE IN SYRIA
“Assad
is the angel of death, and the world would be better without him."
BY
GIL HOFFMAN
8
April, 2018
The
United States must attack the regime of Bashar Assad in Syria in
response to the regime chemical gas strike on the Syrian town Douma
that killed more than 70 people, Strategic Affairs and Public
Security Minister Gilad Erdan said Sunday.
Erdan,
who is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s No. 2 in Likud, said he
hoped US military action against the regime would be taken as it was
when the Syrian Army used chemical weapons against its people in the
past.
“The
shocking attack shows the incredible hypocrisy of the international
community focusing on Israel confronting the terrorist organization
Hamas that is sending civilians to our fence, when dozens are being
killed in Syria every day,” Erdan told Army Radio. “It shows the
need for strengthening the presence of Americans and other
international forces, because without them the genocide we are seeing
will only intensify.”
The
minister also said Israel must intensify its diplomatic and
humanitarian efforts to help the Syrian people.
Construction
Minister Yoav Gallant, a former major-general who is the security
figure closest to Netanyahu, also expressed hope that military action
would be taken against the Syrian leader.
“Assad
is the angel of death, and the world would be better without him,”
he said.
Zionist
Union leader Avi Gabbay said he was shocked and pained by the
pictures from Douma. He said it was a reminder that Israel must rely
on itself if Syrian President Bashar Assad, who he noted heads the
small Alawite minority in Syria, can attack his people with the
support of Russia and silence from the US.
Opposition
leader Isaac Herzog (Zionist Union) posted an article he wrote for
The Jerusalem Post on his Twitter page in English and Hebrew.
“More
slaughter by the butcher in Damascus,” Herzog tweeted. “I have
repeatedly worked and called for international action as the world
stands by. We need US leadership combining decisive military action
as well as diplomacy with Russia.”
Zionist
Union MK Nachman Shai demanded an emergency meeting of the Knesset
Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee to discuss the readiness of the
home front for a Syrian chemical attack. He noted that gas masks
distributed to Israelis when there were chemical threats from Iraq
were returned when then-defense minister Moshe Ya’alon said Israel
no longer faced a chemical threat.
“The
Israeli approach of saying ‘Don’t worry because it will be
alright’ has already been proven wrong,” Shai said. “History
has proven that the unreasonable can quickly become reality.”
Such
issues are expected to be discussed on Monday, when a subcommittee of
the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee headed by former
defense minister Amir Peretz will convene to discuss the security and
environmental threats to the ammonia plant in Haifa.
From RT
From RT
