The Jerusalem Post reported that Israel will likely have to handle the threats on its northern border, including from Syria, on its own, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said on Sunday morning, as talk continues about the US possibly removing its troops from the war-torn country.
In an interview with KANN Radio on Sunday morning, Liberman said that US President Donald Trump had not consulted him about the possible US troop pullout.
"President Trump did not ask me about Syria. I operate out of the assumption that, ultimately, Israel will have deal alone, both with the threat in the north and with the threat in the south,” Liberman said.
The US is Israel’s “main strategic asset, but it has its own considerations and we live here in the Middle East,” Liberman said.
He spoke after scores of civilians, including children, were killed in a government-led chemical attack on a rebel holdout in the town of Douma in Syria on Saturday, and then said the United Nations and the Arab League have not condemned these death. He attacked the international community’s complacency on civilian deaths in the Middle East both in the KANN interview and in an additional interview with Army Radio.