While the Syrian dilemma touches on many issues such as security, region, religion, politics and diplomacy, it is, first and foremost, a moral one. Here, in Israel, it has come into sharper focus after seeing the photos of the atrocities broadcast from Damascus and the rows upon rows of bodies shrouded in white sheets.
Israel is a nation that rose from the ashes of the Holocaust. The people in Israel are the only people in the modern era against which an explicit order of extermination was issued and partially carried out. Six million Jews were exterminated during World War II, most of whom were killed by gassing. No Israeli can remain indifferent knowing that within a 30-minute drive from the Golan Heights such horrific sights are taking place again.
