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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Army General Martin E. Dempsey: “This opposition has to not only be prepared militarily, but it has to be prepared if it achieves a position of governance inside of Syria.”
US President Barack Obama’s choice for UN ambassador, Samantha Power: “The United States has no greater friend in the world than the State of Israel. Israel is a country with whom we share security interests and, even more fundamentally, with whom we share core values – the values of democracy, human rights, and the rule of law… And yet the General Assembly and Human Rights Council continue to pass one – sided resolutions condemning Israel above all others. Israel – not Iran, not Sudan, not North Korea – is the on e country with a fixed place on the Human Rights Council ’s agenda. Israel’s legitimacy should be beyond dispute, and its security must be beyond doubt. Just as I have done the last four years as President Obama’s UN adviser at the White House, I will stand up for Israel and work tirelessly to defend it.”
Labour MP, Michael McCann: “Hezbollah should be proscribed, full stop. The simple truth of the matter is that Hezbollah is Iran’s proxy and issued to exert its sphere of influence over Lebanon and the wider region in whatever way possible. But don’t take my word for it, the deputy leader of Hezbollah, Sheikh Naim Qassem, said in 2007 that all of Hezbollah’s policies including firing missiles into Israel would not have taken place without the consent of Iran… It’s a scandal that the UK has only proscribed part of Hezbollah, giving the impression that a distinction can be drawn between Hezbollah’s terrorists and those that purport to be politicians. And it’s even worse that the EU haven’t proscribed Hezbollah at all.”
(source: Jerusalem Post)
Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Benny Gantz”…in Sinai too, we see a buildup of terror organizations, and we’re following these developments on a daily basis. Things happen there all the time, and we are definitely following the events.”
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “I have a sense that there’s no sense of urgency” from the international community in stopping Iran’s pursuit of nuclear power. “Yet Iran is the most important, the most urgent matter of all… Because all the problems that we have, however important, will be dwarfed by this messianic, apocalyptic, extreme regime that would have atomic bombs.”
Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon: “In light of the changing threats around us, and following abilities developed by the IDF, we reached the conclusion that we must lead a significant reform rather than mortgage our future at the expense of the present…We are not becoming dominated by technology, but using it and adjusting it to the new reality in which battles of army against army, like we last saw 40 years ago in the Yom Kippur War, are becoming less and less relevant.”