Report: Israeli tanks reach point 25km [15 Miles!]from Damascus
Netanyahu says Golan Heights will always be ‘part of Israel’
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that the overthrow of the Assad regime in Syria highlights the “great importance” of the occupation state’s presence on the Golan Heights. Israeli control of the Syrian territory “guarantees” its security and sovereignty, he insisted. “The Golan Heights,” he added, “will forever be an inseparable part of the State of Israel.”
The far-right Israeli leader, for whom an arrest warrant for war crimes and crimes against humanity has been issued by the International Criminal Court, said on Monday evening that the Assad regime was a “central element of Iran’s axis of evil,” noting that Tehran invested a lot in Syria, but everything collapsed.
Netanyahu pointed out that the Assad regime committed massacres of thousands in Syria, and “fostered hostility and hatred” toward Israel, acting as the front line in what he called “Iranian terrorism”, as well as a route to transport weapons from Iran to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The day that the regime fell, he said, signals the beginning of a “new and dramatic chapter” in the history of the Middle East.