IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot speaks at a conference in the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya on December 23, 2018. (Eli Dassa/IDC)
Times of Israel: IDF chief: Iran wants to deploy 100,000 fighters in Syria; we’re preventing it
Outgoing army commander Eisenkot admits failure in giving residents of southern Israel ‘feeling of security,’ but says people don’t see most of what army does.
Outgoing IDF chief Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot on Sunday defended the military against recent criticism of insufficient action against Palestinian terrorism in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, saying the army’s primary goal in recent years has been thwarting Iran’s efforts to establish a permanent military presence in Syria. Tehran is seeking to establish a force of 100,000 fighters in Syria, he said, and the IDF is preventing it from doing so.
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More Remarks By Outgoing IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot
Iran Seeking to 'Build a Force of 100,000 Ground Troops' in Syria - IDF Chief -- Sputnik
IDF chief: US troops leaving Syria is ‘significant,’ but no need to overstate it -- Times Of Israel
US Syria pullout: 'Significant event, but don't exaggerate' -- Arutz Sheva
IDF chief: Let's not make too much of Trump's Syria withdrawal -- Israel Hayom
Analysis Outgoing Israeli Army Chief Sends Stark Message to Politicians: Bluster Won't Stop Terror -- Haaretz
1 comment:
"Good luck with that." As part of recent agreements, Israel, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia will be working in concert with Russia to limit Iranian actions in Syria. Maybe the agreements won't work as advertised. In any event, Iran's position just became much more difficult.
Furthermore with the UAE and Saudia Arabia backing up the Kurds any goal Turkey may have had of genocide against the Kurds just became more difficult. Hence the Turkush leader has agreed to help us finish off ISIS. He had no choice. To not do so he'd have been fighting not just us but our allies. In other words, the very survival of his government and very likely his own survival depends on it. That had to have been an interesting conversation that took place between Trump and the Turkish leader a few days ago.
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