The IDF is preparing for a possible flood of Syrian refugees following the potential fall of President Bashar Assad, Chief of Staff Benny Gantz said Tuesday.
Speaking at the Knesset’s Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee, the army chief said that members of Assad’s Alawite sect are expected to seek shelter in Israel should the Syrian leader, an Alawite himself, be removed from power.
“The day the Assad regime falls, this is expected to hurt the Alawite sect,” Army Chief Gantz said. “We are preparing to take in Alawite refugees on the Golan Heights.”
Addressing other possible implications of the Syrian upheaval, the chief of staff added that Israel fears that weapons could make their way from Syria to Lebanon.
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Unless the people fleeing Syria are Jewish, why would Israel even consider allowing them in. The only benefit that Israel could possibly gain would be if any had vital security information and willing to give that up.
Would someone explain this to me? Don’t written have enough problems with the Palestinian refugees? We need more problems? Why don’t they go to another Muslim country?!
Is Israily giverment crazy?
They need more Arabs in Israel, with a birth rate much higher than that of the Jews. Now, boruh Hashem, the Golans are mostly Jewish, and when Israel took Golans over they were mostly free from population. So the Goverment desided now to show how carying we are and take in even our worst enemy. Now they would bring them in and would create another area with a non jewish majority.
In general, Israel thinks that this is America and they can bring refugies from Africa, now more arabs, and god nows from where, and still maitain Jewish majority. But they keep forgeting that there are, bli Ain Hara, only 5.5 mililn Jews in Israel, and if you start taking all thoes refugies, they would out number you in no time. And specialy, to even thing of takin in more sworn enimies of israel, I think this is outragies.