(Ynet News) Guy Bechor - The Assads are a brutal family of dictators that comes from an isolated ethnic minority that lacks legitimacy. Had we finalized an agreement with this family and with this Syrian minority, the deal would have been worthless. We would have lost the Golan forever and the Syrian regime would have settled it with a million citizens that would spread "resistance" against Israel. Israel has an interest in living at peace with its neighbors, but we must secure agreements with peoples, not with isolated regimes or tyrants who won't be there forever.
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