Israel desperately seeks to wage continued war in Syria: Saeb Shaath - Video
[Jun 20, 2013] Press TV has conducted an interview Saeb Shaath, author and Middle East expert in Belfast, about the issue of US president Obama’s declaration to escalate the war in Syria by arming militant elements and the confirmation statement by Shimon Peres saying the US has no other choice. The following is an approximate transcript of the interview.
Press TV: No surprise in what the Israeli president has said about the US arming insurgents, but what was surprising is Shimon Peres saying that that was the last option that the US has. Is that the last option that the US has, is the Israeli president correct there?
Shaath: They are trying to bluff their way around this. The president of Israel, he knows more than what he tries to tell. Israeli had a role from the beginning and its role was to create a series of such destruction in Syria. Let me say historically in 1948 the doctrine was declared by Ben Gurion, then the leader of the Zionist movement who founded Israel when the British installed it for them, said they have to be able to fight all the Arabic countries together - that’s how Israel can succeed and that’s become their doctrine, which was used to implement devious tactics in creating hot spots and flash points in every Arabic country such as sectarian, religious tensions and they created their undercover groups to act as political movements or religious movements within the Arabic world. That is a British and US tactic and they taught the Israelis very well how to use it.
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