Tourism Minister Yariv Levin criticizes calls for Israeli military intervention in the Syrian war in response to a gas attack in the country that killed at least 58 people and injured over 200, many of them children.
“I suggest that we be very careful with bold statements about Israeli military involvement in Syria. Yes, we have military strength but anyone that thinks we can be the police officers of the world is giving us power that we don’t have,” Levin tells an Israel Democracy Institute conference.
Tourism Minister Yariv Levin in the Knesset on July 13, 2015 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
“The world’s great powers have not been able to stop what is going on in Syria. I suggest that regarding military intervention, to put it lightly, we should not be rushing into a decision. Those who are shouting ideas about how we should do it are, in my eyes, not acting responsibly,” he adds.
Earlier today, education Minister Naftali Bennett called on Netanyahu to convene an emergency meeting of the security cabinet in order to discuss the regional impact of the chemical weapons attack and the “ongoing systematic genocide” in Syria. “The use of chemical weapons against civilians requires Israel’s security cabinet to rethink its stance,” he said in a statement.
— Raoul Wootliff
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