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June 15, 2018       Share:    

Source: https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Netanyahu-In-fighting-Iran-we-serve-security-and-peace-beyond-Mideast-559953

Netanyahu: In Fighting Iran, We Serve Security and Peace beyond the Mideast

(Jerusalem Post) Tamara Zieve - In fighting Iran, Israel "serves the cause of security and peace beyond the Middle East," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the International Homeland Security Forum in Jerusalem on Thursday. "We ask for the support of your governments," he said, appealing to the 20 homeland security ministers at the conference. "After the Iran deal, it took the money and started expanding its empire, trying to put military in Syria, trying to attack Israel." Iran is trying to colonize Syria as part of its goal of defeating Israel, Netanyahu said. "It wants to use 80,000 Shia militants in Syria. Syria is 90% Sunni - [but] their goal is to convert the Sunnis. This is the recipe for another civil war....By preventing that we are also helping the security of other countries of the world," he asserted, noting that Israel had bombed Iranian-backed army bases in Syria.

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