JERUSALEM: Israel’s President Shimon Peres yesterday said he supported US President Barack Obama’s decision to seek Congressional approval for military action against Syria.
“I have full faith in President Obama’s moral and operational stance,” Peres said in an interview with Israeli army radio. “I recommend patience, I am confident that the United States will respond in the right way to Syria.”
Peres said the situation in Syria was now more complicated than ever, requiring careful deliberation over foreign intervention. “There is no one Syria anymore. Syria as it was is no longer. Assad cannot unite Syria, there are three or four countries in one,” he said, in apparent reference to various rebel groups fighting to topple the regime.
Peres also ruled out Israeli involvement in any intervention. “It is not for Israel to decide on Syria, we are in a unique position, for varying reasons there is consensus against Israeli involvement. We did not create the Syrian situation,” he said. AFP
