Tense exchange over Israeli airstrikes in Syria

AlArabiya English

In a tense exchange, Labib Nahhas, Cengiz Firat, and Sarit Zehavi clash over Israeli airstrikes in Syria, the killing of civilians, and the regional balance of power.

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00:00We didn't bump the hell out of the country.

00:02If we had bumped the hell out of the country, the results were completely different.

00:06We picked our targets very, very quickly.

00:09So we have to be grateful that you didn't kill more civilians.

00:13Is that your message?

00:14Is that your message?

00:15That's only the last two days.

00:18Most of the Israeli attacks in the past three years, let me honest with each other.

00:23And by the way, no, you did kill civilians.

00:25Yes, you did kill civilians.

00:26And let me also add, you did bomb beforehand, you did bomb every single marine port that existed,

00:35every single airport that existed, any sort of heavy weaponry that existed in Syria

00:40was bombed straight after Bashar al-Assad was gone.

00:44Of course we did.

00:45Let's be honest.

00:46The alternative was to enable Ashara, which was the head of al-Qaeda in Syria,

00:50the organization that is responsible for September 11th, to get all the munition

00:55that was in the hands of Assad and Hezbollah before that.

00:59Of course we did.

01:00As I've said, we are not going to enable any radical ideology to grow on the other side of the border.

01:06I must say something.

01:08We are having this discussion in English.

01:10It's funny.

01:11This discussion is being held in a Western language, not only the English,

01:16but the way we all speak to each other.

01:18But we all live in the Middle East.

01:20Let's be honest with each other.

01:22Syria is not exactly a nation state, I don't know, like Turkey or like Egypt.

01:29The sects in Syria are not just religious sects.

01:33And religion in the Middle East is much more than just a belief in Allah or in God.

01:38Okay, I have to.

01:39I have to.

01:40I have to.

01:40I have to stop you there.

01:43I have to.

01:43The difference is between the other.

01:45This is, this is, this is really.

01:48All right, let's go to, let's get your response, ambassador, first.

01:52There are differences of who they are.

01:54If you may, the moderator, the moderator gave me that.

01:57Okay, sorry, let's just set the ambassador response.

01:59And who is exactly for that reason.

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