Israele ammette per la prima volta che conduce operazioni in Siria
Netanyahu: per "evitare che si trasformi in un fronte contro di noi"
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Gerusalemme, 1 dic. (askanews) - Il premier israeliano Benjamin Netanyahu ha dichiarato oggi che Israele "conduce operazioni" in Siria, ammettendo per la prima volta un proprio coinvolgimento nel Paese vicino, in guerra dal marzo 2011. "Ogni tanto lanciamo operazioni in Siria per evitare che il Paese si trasformi in un fronte contro di noi - ha detto in una conferenza stampa tenuta oggi nel Nord del Paese - ci occupiamo anche di tutto quello che serve per evitare consegne di armi particolarmente letali dalla Siria in Libano". Secondo fonti concordanti, Israele ha effettuato oltre una decina di attacchi aerei in Siria dal 2013, la maggior parte dei quali contro il trasporto di armi destinate agli Hezbollah libanesi, impegnati al fianco del regime siriano. A fronte della notizia di un aereo russo proveniente dalla Siria entrato "per errore" nei giorni scorsi nello spazio aereo israeliano, Netanyahu ha sottolineato che "le forze militari israeliane e quelle russe si coordinano per impedire incidenti e gli avvenimenti di questi ultimi giorni dimostrano come tale cooperazione sia importante per lo Stato di Israele
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HAARETZ.COM
Most world leaders acknowledge that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not a territorial dispute, prime minister says.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
said Tuesday “we operate in Syria from time to time to prevent Syria
from becoming a front against us.”
He was
speaking at the Galilee Conference in Acre, a day after he had met in
Paris with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the margins of the
climate conference.
Netanyahu
said that he had met with over a hundred leaders from around the world,
and that, based on what he experienced in Paris, nothing could be
further from depictions of Israel as a pariah state.
"We
have a disagreement on the Palestinian issue with some of the
countries, especially a number of countries in Western Europe …. They
think the rift with the Palestinians is a territorial dispute, but it’s
not,” Netanyahu said.
“It’s about our very existence. But most of the leaders, in Europe as well, understand this.”
At
a press conference after Netanyahu’s meeting with Putin, the prime
minister said Israeli officers would meet with their Russian
counterparts to discuss closer coordination on operations in Syria. This
came after Turkey downed a Russian military jet on the Turkish border
last week.
Netanyahu
and Putin met for 45 minutes, discussed mainly Syria and agreed to
deepen military cooperation to prevent similar mishaps.
Speaking
at the Galilee Conference, opposition leader Isaac Herzog criticized
government policies that prioritize the settlements over outlying
communities in the north and south.
“The
lobby of the isolated settlements sits in the prime minister’s office
and siphons off the money of the children of the Galilee and the Negev
for the benefit of a handful of extortionists,” Herzog said.
MK Moti
Yogev (Habayit Hayehudi), who was in the audience, shouted at Herzog
that his statement was incitement. Herzog answered: “You get hysterical
every time somebody tells you the truth.”
Herzog
added: “Enough whitewashing, enough fine words. You should be told the
truth – the prime minister doesn’t care about the Negev and the Galilee.
He only serves those that help him survive – the connected pressure
groups.”
As Herzog
put it, “When Ariel College wanted to become a university, it became a
university overnight.” He said the Negev and the Galilee “get priority
only in times of national emergency.”
Herzog
once again denied that there was any chance Zionist Union would join
Netanyahu’s governing coalition. “Anybody who thinks we can sit in a
government with such distorted priorities is making a bitter mistake,”
he said.
The
mayor of the largely Arab Galilee city of Sakhnin, Mazen Ghanaim, told
the conference that Netanyahu discriminated against Arabs in the budget
as well.
“On
November 19 the government approved a budget – how much for the Arab
society? Zero,” he said, adding that 50 percent of Israeli Arabs were
poor.
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