{"id":13375,"date":"2018-08-31T10:24:42","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T10:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13375"},"modified":"2018-08-31T10:24:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T10:24:42","slug":"israel-will-not-be-bound-by-post-war-deals-on-syria-says-lieberman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13375","title":{"rendered":"Israel will not  be bound by post-war deals on Syria, says  Lieberman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1364496\/middle-east\" readability=\"87\">\n<p>\nJERUSALEM:\u00a0Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Thursday that Israel will not be bound by whatever agreements the international community may reach on Syria after its civil war.<\/p>\n<p>\nSpeaking on a visit to the Israeli border with Lebanon, Lieberman said his government would scrupulously observe existing agreements with Syria, with which it which also shares a frontier.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWe see various gatherings here and there; in Ankara, in Tehran, in Geneva, in other places too. They are talking about redesigning Syria after the battle for Idlib,\u201d Lieberman said in English.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cAs far as the state of Israel is concerned, with all respect and appreciation for all agreements and all understandings, they are not binding on us,\u201d said the Israeli minister.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWhat obligates us are solely the security interests of the state of Israel. All other understandings and agreements that are reached in all kinds of places are simply irrelevant from our point of view.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWe shall observe to the letter all previous agreements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Israel and Syria agreed an armistice which included a demilitarized border zone. The two sides have never signed a formal peace treaty.<\/p>\n<p>\nIsrael has stayed out of the protracted civil war but insists that Iran withdraw its forces from Syria, which it sees as a threat.<\/p>\n<p>\nLieberman also told Israeli residents living near the Lebanese border that he had budgeted more than $60 million (\u20ac51 million) to strengthen civil defense in the area, particularly in improving public bomb shelters and blast proofing of \u201ceducational institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nIranian-backed Hezbollah is said by Israel to have tens of thousands of rockets that could be used against the Jewish state.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn 2006, Hezbollah fired 3,970 rockets into Israel during a 34-day war, according to Israeli authorities.<\/p>\n<p>\nMore than 1,200 Lebanese, mostly civilians, and 120 Israelis, the majority soldiers, died in the fighting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM:\u00a0Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Thursday that Israel will not be bound by whatever agreements the international community may reach on Syria after its civil war. Speaking on a visit to the Israeli border with Lebanon, Lieberman said his government would scrupulously observe existing agreements with Syria, with which it which also shares a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}