Netanyahu, accompanied by Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, said he came to the northern border to see first hand the army’s preparedness against the threats coming from the North, which he laid at Iran’s doorstep.
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In an interview conducted last Sunday on CNN with Fareed Zakaria, US President Barack Obama stated that he does not remember having encountered a foreign politician who interfered with American foreign policy as much as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does today, especially when it comes to the nuclear deal with Iran. The IDF is strong.
In the scenarios envisioned by the IDF, heavily-armed terrorist cells would infiltrate the Israeli side of the Golan and attack Jewish and Druze villages there, necessitating a strong Israeli response in Syria.
“The money that would flow into Iran following the nuclear agreement would be used to strengthen terrorist organisations operating against us under Iran’s sponsorship, with the declared objective of destroying Israel”, Xinhua quoted Netanyahu.
The Israeli army started giant division-scale coaching within the occupied Golan Heights over the weekend, getting ready for a way Israel would react if attacked by rocket hearth from Islamic State group militants in Syria. “Those who try to harm us, we will strike at them”, he said.
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Israeli authorities estimate that near the demarcation line with Syria in the Golan Heights there are hundreds of militants of Hezbollah, a U.S.-designated terror group that is allied with the Assad regime and Iran. “Representatives of the Revolutionary Guard are biding their time, waiting for the bad agreement with the Western powers to go into effect in order to transfer funds to Hezbollah and other terror organizations”. “Of course, the IDF is prepared; it will not allow violations of sovereignty on the Golan Heights”. Moreover, we will continue to take various steps against terrorism. “The military is an organization that looks at things as is, and I think that their assessment is that at least in the short term the IDF will not deal directly with the Iranian nuclear program”, says Ehud Eiran, an assistant professor of political science at Haifa University and a military expert.
