The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahudeclared this Sunday that his government intended “conserve” the territories it occupied in Syriaalthough he seeks to reach “an agreement on the demilitarization of southern Syria”, the day after the accusation by Syrian President Ahmed al Shara of exporting his crises to Syria.
“We sincerely hope to achieve a demilitarization agreement for southern Syria and also protect our Druze brothers,” Netanyahu said during a meeting with Israeli ambassadors, according to the ‘Haaretz’ newspaper.
“But we want to preserve these assets,” he added. The leader thus renewed his defense of the Israeli presence on Mount Hermon (Syrian) and the buffer zone in a position in which the executive he leads “will maintain its moral superiority”, as he himself declared.
His words came later, the day before, Al Shara will accuse Israel of exporting its crises to its country and said that in Damascus they were working with “influential countries around the world to pressure Israel to withdraw”, and that they all “endorsed” their request.
In parallel, Iran warned last Monday that “acts of aggression” of Israel on Syrian territory represent “a subject of regional concern”. However, Netanyahu assured that “not everything is clear in the public discourse”, and alluded in this sense to the normalization of relations with Arab countries without the recognition of a Palestinian state.
“They said, ‘This can’t happen without this and without that.’ They also said the same thing about the Abraham Accords,” he said. Likewise, he stressed that his government has achieved “tectonic” scale changes, although he cautioned that this does not necessarily mean that “the (Iranian) Axis is not trying to interfere.”
“We have ended tolerance. We see a threat and we act,” said the Israeli president regarding a possible confrontation with Tehran or its allies and recalling the attacks against this Central Asian country in June, which “fortunately (…), the American president (Donald Trump) decided to join”.
From Israel has decided to invade Syrian territory beyond the 1974 separation line, Citing security reasons linked to the war in Gaza, its army has launched numerous attacks, such as the latest incursion late last month against the town of Beit Yin, near the capital Damascus, an operation which resulted in the deaths of more than a dozen civilians, according to Syrian authorities.
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