Israel's strikes on Damascus were to ‘protect their Druze brethren in Syria'
'It has a context, you can't just judge international political conflicts on the basis of superficial images that are propagated by social media,' Mr Wertheim told Sky News host Danica De Giorgio.
'For much of its history, the majority Suni population mistreated a lot of these minority groups in a very severe way.
'With the fall of the Assad regime and the takeover of Syria by a former Islamic State Al-Qaeda terrorist leader.
'Things have reverted back to what they traditionally were …. Israel has come in … and they have demanded action to protect their Druze brethren in Syria.'
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