April 24, 2018
Gen. Joseph Votel, head of the US Central Command, failed to convince Israel’s leaders that Trump’s plan to withdraw US troops from Syria offered any advantages to their security, according to the Israeli news site Debka.
According to Debka “The visit in itself was a gesture as the first any head of CENTCOM, which is responsible for US military activities in the Middle East, had ever paid to Israel. The general was sent by President Trump to put before Israeli leaders the details of his plan to take US troops out of Syria in the coming months, except for a small contingent remaining to guard against Syria or its allies, Iran and Hizballah moving into the regions bordering on Israel and Jordan”.
Israel’s leaders did not buy the general’s presentation. They told him that the plan was far short of being able to stop Iran from building a military infrastructure in Syrian, a prospect that posed the greatest peril to the Jewish state, according to the Israeli news site Debka.
