Israeli minister: ‘The time has come’ to kill Bashar Assad
Yoav Galant says revelation the Syrian president is executing prisoners and burning their bodies ‘crosses a red line’
May 16, 2017
An Israeli minister called for the assassination of Syrian President Bashar Assad on Tuesday, saying he “does not have a place in this world.”
Speaking at a conference outside Jerusalem, Housing and Construction Minister Yoav Galant, a retired IDF general, said that in light of recent allegations that Assad’s regime carried out mass executions and burned the bodies of the victims, he had to be killed.
“The reality of the situation in Syria is that they are executing people, using directed chemical attacks against them, and the latest extreme — burning their corpses, something we haven’t seen in 70 years,” Galant said, in a reference to the Holocaust.
The minister said Assad’s actions in Syria amount to nothing less than a “genocide,” with “hundreds of thousands killed.”
On Monday, the United States State Department accused the Assad regime of carrying out mass killings of thousands of prisoners and burning the bodies in a large crematorium outside the capital.
“In my view, we are crossing a red line. And in my view, the time has come to assassinate Assad. It’s as simple as that,” said Galant, who previously served as the head of the IDF’s Southern Command.
Galant likened the assassination of Assad to cutting off the “tail of the snake.” After that, he said, “we can focus on the head, which is in Tehran.”
In a conversation with The Times of Israel after his speech, Galant stood by his comments.
He acknowledged that targeted political assassinations are considered illegal under international law, but clarified that he “wasn’t speaking about practicalities.”
However, he added, “Anyone who murders people and burns their corpses does not have a place in this world.”
The State Department said it believed about 50 detainees a day are being hanged at Saydnaya military prison, about 45 minutes north of Damascus. Many of the bodies, it said, are then burned in the crematorium.
“We believe that the building of a crematorium is an effort to cover up the extent of mass murders taking place,” said Stuart Jones, the top US diplomat for the Middle East, in accusing the Syrian government of sinking “to a new level of depravity.”
During his speech, Galant also said that in a wider view, Assad and his ally Hezbollah, the Lebanese terror group, are larger threats to the world order than the Islamic State and other Sunni terrorist groups.
Galant was speaking at the Israel Defense publication’s “Ground Warfare and Logistics” conference at the tank museum in Latrun.
“The world will wipe out Daesh, the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda,” he said, using the Arabic nickname for the Islamic State.
Galant said his assessment came from the fact that those terrorist groups do not enjoy the same level of support as Syria and Hezbollah, which are backed by Iran.
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May 17, 2017
An Israeli minister says Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is to blame for the sufferings of the Arab state and should be assassinated, a day after the US leveled fresh allegations against the Damascus government.
“As far as I am concerned it is time to assassinate Assad,” the regime’s housing and construction minister Yoav Galant told a conference outside Jerusalem al-Quds on Tuesday, adding that the Syrian president “does not have a place in this world.”
He accused the government in Damascus of “executing people, using directed chemical attacks against them, and the latest extreme — burning their corpses.”
Killing Assad would be the first step in confronting Syria’s supporter, Iran, he added.
Galant’s comments came one day after the US State Department claimed that Assad's government was using a crematorium to cover up the deaths of thousands of prisoners at Saydnaya military prison near the capital Damascus.
Syria’s Foreign Ministry categorically rejected the allegation as “a new Hollywood screenplay disconnected from reality,” and “totally unfounded.”
Successive US administrations are “fabricating lies and creating false allegations … to justify their policies of aggression and intervention in sovereign states,” SANA quoted a ministry source as saying.
This is while the Tel Aviv regime regularly attacks positions held by pro-Damascus forces in Syria, claiming that the attacks are retaliatory.
Syria says the Israeli raids are meant to shore up the Takfiri terrorists, who are increasingly losing ground against the Arab country’s army.
The Syrian army has on several occasions confiscated Israeli-made arms and military equipment from terrorists fighting the government forces. There are also reports that Israel has been providing medical treatment to the extremists wounded in Syria.
Last month, Israel’s former minister of military affairs Moshe Ya’alon admitted to a tacit alliance with Daesh , saying the terrorist group had "immediately apologized" to Tel Aviv after firing “once” into Israel.
Last September, Israeli lawmaker Akram Hasson accused Tel Aviv of directly aiding the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham terror outfit, formerly known as al-Nusra Front, in the battles on the Golan Heights.http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2017/05/17/522192/Israel-Syria-Bashar-Assad
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