Peres: Assad’s Fall Will Be Deathblow to Hizbullah
Israeli President Shimon Peres stated on Wednesday that Syrian President Bashar Assad is “more brutal” and “less clever” than his late father Hafez, reported Israeli news website ynetnews.com.
He said while touring the Golan Heights with Israeli Chief of Staff Benny Gantz: “Assad’s fall will be a deathblow to Hizbullah.”
The Israeli president noted that Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah “knows that he currently lies in a difficult position,” said the news site.
Furthermore, Peres warned that Lebanon would find itself in a “dangerous situation if Nasrallah chose to attack Israel.”
In addition, he stressed that the Jewish state will carry out the proper retaliation should it be attacked by Lebanon, revealing that Israel has so far “avoided attacking Lebanese strategic targets,” according to ynetnews.com.
Nasrallah had stated in a speech on February 24 that Israel does not intimidate Hizbullah.
He said: “They don’t scare us, let them say whatever they want.”
Addressing the situation in Syria, Peres remarked that an army that attacks its own people “is not an army of the people.”
The Syrian people have launched an uprising against the ruling regime, demanding the ouster of Assad.
The regime has retaliated by waging a violent crackdown against the demonstrators.
The United Nations estimates that some 9,000 people have been killed in the protests that began in March 2011.
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