Ya’alon: US Gearing up for Military Intervention in Syria

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The "Israeli" Minister of Strategic Affairs Moshe Ya'alon stressed that "the US is gearing up for the option of military involvement in Syria if Syria President Bashar Assad uses chemical weapons."

In remarks to "Israel" radio, Ya'alon noted that "at the current juncture there was no fear of the regime in Damascus deploying its sizable stockpile of nonconventional weapons against "Israel"."
"While current US efforts were focused on the diplomatic track, if nonconventional weapons "falling into irresponsible hands" became a plausible scenario, Washington would take action to prevent it from occurring," he viewed.

Asked whether he meant that the US was mulling "an actual insertion of military forces," Ya'alon, a former IDF chief of General Staff, said vaguely: "I don't know about an actual insertion of forces, but there's a variety of options for preventing it from happening, and of course "Israel" and other countries in the area are closely monitoring the situation in Syria."

Ya'alon didn't comment on "Israeli" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's secret visit to Jordan, but did say that "Israel and the Kingdom of Jordan are cooperating closely" on strategic matters.
"We have mutual interests, such as extremist Islamist terror, Syria, and the situation in Iran," the "Israeli" minister said, adding that "even though there are differences of opinion, the interests are there."


Source: News Agencies, Edited by moqawama.org