NOVEMBER 28, 2015
‘Syria is dead, Israel must prepare,’ top defense official warns
Amos Gilad, head of the Defense Ministry’s political-security division. (Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

The nation state of Syria has collapsed, a fact that Israel must internalize about its northern neighbor, a senior Israeli defense official said Saturday.
“Syria is a dead state, and Israel must understand this and prepare accordingly,” Amos Gilad, the director of the political-security division in the Defense Ministry and a former senior Military Intelligence official, told a cultural event in Beersheba.
“[Syrian President Bashar] Assad’s grip on the country is faltering, it is a land without rule,” Gilad said, according to Army Radio.