Israeli Knesset member: Syria opposition desires ‘peace with Israel’

Israeli opposition lawmaker Isaac Herzog said today that factions in the Syrian uprising seek peace with his country, according to The Associated Press.

Herzog, son of the late former president Chaim Herzog and a member of the Labor Party serving in Israel’s Knesset, said he had been in contact with the Syrian opposition but there was no immediate confirmation from its members.

The AP said Herzog, a member of the Knesset committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense, had said today that the Syrian opposition want to “be friends” with Israel and called for Israel to provide them medical assistance but not weapons. The news agency said he refused to name his interlocutors to protect them from retribution by the Syrian regime but claimed they were allies of the main rebel factions.

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