United Nations – Syria Representative To UN Says Israel Wants Peacekeepers Out Of Golan

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    UN armored vehicles leave Syria and cross into Israel, from the northern part of the Israeli-Syrian border, near the Syrian village of Jubata Al Khashab, in the Golan Heights, 15 September 2014. EPA/ATEF SAFADIUnited Nations – Syria’s UN ambassador Bashar Jaafari said that Israel wants peacekeepers removed from the Golan Heights and accused Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordanian, and Turkish of supporting terrorist organizations in Syria.

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    “Israel is the most interested in having peacekeepers evacuated from the occupied Golan so as to be left without international monitoring,” Jaafari told reporters on Tuesday, SANA – the Syrian Arab News Agency reported.

    Israel, Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia sought to encourage “armed terrorist organizations to enter the disengagement area with the aim of creating a buffer zone similar to that created by Israel and its agents in South Lebanon, which was liberated by the [Lebanese] Resistance in 2000,” claimed Jaafari.

    Jaafari said he gave UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon evidence of involvement of the governments of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Jordan in supporting the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front and other Islamist opposition groups.

    The evidence included the Qatari officer who was “coordinating the kidnapping” of UN peacekeepers from Fiji, he claimed.

    “The UN General Assembly however did not lift a finger,” complained Jaafari, adding that “dozens of letters” were sent to the UN Secretary General, members of the UN Security Council, and the under-secretary-general for peacekeeping operations warning about danger in the area, “but there wasn’t any response.”

    The Syrian UN representative went on to blame the lack of response on Qatar and Saudi Arabia for using their money to corrupt the UN.

    The Fijian peacekeepers were released last week by the Nusra Front.

    Qatar is thought by the United States to have influence with Nusra Front, and the Gulf state said Fiji had formally requested its assistance in freeing the hostages.

    Jaafari also referred to the US led alliance against the Islamic State, lamenting that it does not want cooperation from Syria, Iran, Russia, and China “as they don’t really seek to fight terrorism. Rather they want to use terrorism to interfere further and further in the internal affairs of the region,” SANA reported.

    “How do you want to fight ISIS in Syria without coordinating with the Syrian government, while at the same time threatening the Syrian government that if it defends its sovereignty, it will be attacked by this or that state?” said Jaafari.

    “We in Syria have been fighting ISIS and terrorism on behalf of the whole world for two years, and we didn’t wait for any international coalition and we will not wait for others to invite us [to the coalition] or coordinate with us,” he said.

    In addition, Jaafari questioned the US focus on Islamic State, stating that it was overlooking the Nusra Front.

    Content is provided courtesy of the Jerusalem Post


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    9 years ago

    Hey, buddy-
    don’t do drugs. They kill your brain.

    AlbertEinstein
    AlbertEinstein
    9 years ago

    Textbook example of “kol haposel, bemumo posel.”