Israel's Defense Minister said the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad is doomed.

Ehud Barak said Assad, who has launched a deadly crackdown on the Syrian opposition, has lost his legitimacy.

Barak told Israel Radio on Monday, June 6, that the Syrian president might be able to hang on for several months, but will be severely weakened until he is eventually ousted. "I think Assad will fall," Barak said.

He added that in the current unstable environment, there is no prospect for renewing the moribund Israeli-Syrian peacemaking. The Israeli defense minister said he believes leaders of Yemen and Libya will also be toppled, AP reported.