Syria’s fear
The Israeli military intelligence service, Aman, has informed the government that the Syrian leader, President Bashar Al-Assad, has instructed his army to get ready for an Israeli military attack.
He has also called for a resumption of peace talks with Israel. But Israel, under the leadership of the hardline expansionist, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, does not take Assad’s call for a resumption of negotiations seriously, especially when Sharon apparently has no intentions whatsoever of withdrawing from the Golan heights, which has artillery batteries within firing range of Damascus, the Syrian capital.
In open provocation of Syria, Israel has been conducting air force flights over Syrian airfields, barracks and other military interests, and has attacked ‘terrorist’ targets within Syrian territory. On 5 October, Israeli F-16 jets bombed an empty Palestinian training base near Damascus. It was the first assault on Syrian soil in 30 years and the Syrians were stunned, failed to retaliate and were mocked throughout the Arab world for letting the Israelis humiliate them. In October, eight Israeli F-15’s crossed the international border with Lebanon, flew over Beirut and all the way over the 35,000 Syrian troops stationed in northern Lebanon.
“For several weeks now, Israel has been provoking and humiliating Damascus,” wrote Brigadier-General Shlomo Gazit, a former head of Israeli military intelligence, in the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aharonot. “Whoever flies at supersonic speed over the Syrian presidential palace humiliates the sovereign and proud leader of a neighbouring country. Whoever boasts in public of doing so adds insult to injury.”
An Israeli military intelligence report indicates that Syria is convinced that Sharon is determined to attack Syria for domestic political reasons, and that he believes he has backing from the pro-Israeli Bush administration.
Last month, both houses of US Congress passed the ‘Syria Accountability Act’ with an overwhelming majority in favour of imposing sanctions on the Syrian government, citing its support of suicide bombers and other terrorists among its justifications. This appears to have encouraged Sharon further along the path to escalating conflict and undermined any further possibility of dialogue between Syria and the USA.
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another blow to Muslim unity, anyone can think and attack any muslim country without any fear. cause they know Muslims … leaders
