Israel accuses Syria of genocide, urges intervention

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Israel accuses Syria of genocide, urges intervention

By Dan Williams
JERUSALEM | Sun Jun 10, 2012 10:43am EDT
(Reuters) - A senior Israeli minister on Sunday made the Jewish state's most explicit call yet for military intervention to topple President Bashar al-Assad and accused him of committing genocide to suppress the 15-month-old uprising against his rule.

Vice Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz urged world powers to oust Assad in the same way that last year's Western-backed campaign in Libya overthrew former strongman Muammar Gaddafi.

"A crime against humanity, genocide, is being conducted in Syria today. And the silence of the world powers is contrary to all human logic," Mofaz told Israel's Army Radio.

"Since in the not-distant past the powers chose military intervention in Libya, here the required conclusion would be immediate military intervention to bring down the Assad regime."

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[David__77]

1. Such utterances are very helpful to the anti-intervention cause.

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