Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Israel: Is the Most Equal Comrade going to trust resolution-violating Assad in order to "save face?"

Across the Israeli political spectrum, they think the new development is faulty in the extreme:

President Shimon Peres, a staunch supporter of President Obama, reacted to the proposal by warning that Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad is "not trustworthy," and former Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Lieberman said that Syria merely would use any such deal to "buy time," according to the AP. They seemed to agree with skeptics in the U.S. such as conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer, who noted that the deal cements Assad's efforts to stay in power and effectively guarantees him victory in Syria's civil war.
Last month, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) noted in a blog post that Syria had violated U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the Second Lebanon War and mandated that Hezbollah would disarm and leave southern Lebanon. (France, which willintroduce a new resolution formalizing the Kerry gaffe, was  involved in drafting Resolution 1701 as well). Since then, the IDF said, Syria has helped re-arm and strengthen Hezbollah, with help from Iran, openly violating the cease-fire.

Plus, how much "face-saving" value is there to a deal that positions the Syria-Iran-Russia-China axis as predominant on the world stage and leaves the US looking like a has-been?


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