A political analyst says the recent Israeli aerial assault on Syria reveals Tel Aviv’s agenda to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad for being against Israeli interests in the Middle East.
“Well, I think the Israelis want to see Assad out of power because it doesn’t benefit Israel to have Assad’s regime in place…,” New York-based freelance journalist and blogger Michael Santomauro said in an interview with Press TV.
Commenting on US support for the Israeli assault, the analyst said that the Israeli lobby in Washington has become so strong that maintaining support for Tel Aviv’s aggressions is a “domestic issue, it has nothing to do with foreign policy interests for the United States.”
“Sixty percent of the fund-raising for the Democratic Party, the Obama administration got their monies from Jewish pact organizations and that’s decisive decisions making that happen in the United States. It’s been happening that way since the 1960s,” he added.
Santomauro called on Washington to condemn Israel’s aggression on Syria for being against international law.
On Wednesday, the Syrian army said two people were killed and five others injured in an Israeli airstrike on a research center in Jamraya, near the capital, Damascus. Israel declined to comment on the issue.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March 2011. Many people, including large numbers of security personnel, have been killed in the violence.
The Syrian government says the chaos is being orchestrated from outside the country, and there are reports that a very large number of the militants fighting the Syrian government are foreign nationals.
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