Former Netanyahu adviser: Syria cease fire could make Israel-Iran war ‘inevitable’

War between Israel and Iran could be “inevitable” by the end of the Syrian civil war, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s former national security adviser.

 

Iran is trying to build “an air base in Syria” and provide additional weaponry to terrorists in Lebanon in an apparent effort to threaten Israel from two directions, according to the Netanyahu ally. This fear has been brewing in U.S. and Israeli circles for years, but the Israelis think the terms of a nascent Syria cease-fire negotiated by the Trump administration, Russia and Jordan exacerbates the danger.

 

“Israel should take care for its strategic goal and this is to prevent the Iranians and Hezbollah from building launching pads in Syria,” Yaakov Amidror, who counseled Netanyahu from 2011 to 2013, told reporters on a conference call hosted by The Israel Project. “If [the Iranians] begin to build infrastructure which might be used against Israel in Syria and will connect this land corridor into Iraq and begin to move materials from this area into Syria, that will make the war inevitable.”

 

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