As evidence emerged recently that Syria has loaded sarin gas materials into chemical warheads. Israel’s ambassador to the United States on Sunday said that if Syria’s chemical weapons fell into the hands of Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite group, Israel would consider it a “game changer.”
“We are watching the situation very carefully,” Michael Oren said in an interview with Fox News.
“Syria has a very varied, deep chemical weapons program. It is geographically dispersed as well. Were those weapons to pass in to the wrong hands, Hezbollah’s hands, for example, that would be a game changer for us.”
Last week, US President Barack Obama warned Syrian President Bashar Assad against using chemical weapons, saying that would be a “red line.”
On Sunday, Oren echoed Obama’s statement.
“We have a clear red line about those weapons passing into the wrong hands,” Oren said. “Can you imagine Hezbollah, with its 70,000 rockets, could get its hands on chemical weapons? That could kill thousands of people.”