mo4ch:>After years of speculation, IDF chief admits Israel supplied Syrian rebels with weapons | Mo4ch News

The outgoing IDF chief of staff has spilled the beans on a poorly guarded secret of the Israeli military, that it has supplied Syrian rebels fighting President Bashar Assad’s government with weapons “for self-defense.”Gadi Eisenkot, who was the Israeli Defense Forces’ Chief of Staff for the last three years, told the Sunday Times in a farewell interview that Israel had been directly involved in the Syrian conflict on the side of the Syrian rebels, something that Tel Aviv has been reluctant to acknowledge before.Also on rt.comIsrael in panic over losing their ‘dear’ ISIS & Al-Nusra terrorists in Syria – AssadThe general, who is retiring from military service, said that Israel supplied rebels at the border with light weapons for the purposes of “self-defense.”While the direct links between Syrian rebels and Israeli commanders have been officially revealed for the first time, rumors of close military ties between the armed militants and the Israeli government have been circulating fo…