Syria rebels seeking Israel military aid in return for Golan: report

Syria rebels seeking Israel military aid in return for Golan: report
Sun Mar 16, 2014 13:58:12

Syrian foreign backed opposition is willing to give Israel the Golan Heights, in return Israel will use its air defense to enforce a no-fly zone over southern Syria, Al-Arab newspaper reported.

In a report in Al-Arab newspaper, a member of the Syrian opposition coalition is quoted as saying the foreign backed militant groups were willing to sell the Golan Heights to the Zionist regime in return for military aid against President Bashar Assad's army.

"Why shouldn’t we be able to sell the Golan Heights because it is better than losing Syria and Golan at once," Kamal Al-Labvani told the Arab newspaper.

The foreign backed opposition wants to use Israel's air defense systems, including American-made surface-to-air Patriot missiles, to enforce a no-fly zone over southern parts of Syria in order to prevent Assad's air force of bombarding the terrorist groups’ strongholds.

The ringleader of the foreign-backed Syrian National Coalition (SNC) also earlier called on the opposition’s Western allies to deliver on their pledges of supplying heavy weapons to Syrian insurgents.

Ahmad Jarba claimed in a Friday interview with state-funded BBC that the anti-Damascus militants were promised by Western allies to be supplied with heavy weapons during the recent talks in the Swiss city of Geneva.

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