Germany and Syrian rebels

From Adam:  "I was interested when I first began to read this interview with the German Foreign Minister and found that he was against shipping weapons to the rebels. That was until he justified the past and current intervention and then why he doesn't want to send the rebels weapons: apparently he would be fine with arming them if "these weapons do not end up in the hands of extremists, terrorists and jihadists, for whom Damascus is merely a staging post on the road to Jerusalem?" That's where I stopped and went elsewhere, only to return so I could send this to you."