Israel feared the fall of Assad not the rise of instability, Syrian envoy tells UN Security Council

NEW YORK CITY: Syria’s permanent representative to the UN, Ibrahim Olabi, told the Security Council on Thursday that Israel’s true fear relating to Syria was never instability in the country, but the collapse of a regime that tortured and gassed its own people. Arguing that when that collapse took place Israel lost any remaining justification for its continued military presence in southern Syria, he suggested the continuing occupation amounts to an attempt to seize land for political gain rather than to address any genuine security threat.

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