Israel on the verge of war with Syria
February 6th, 2009
A senior Israeli official has warned that Tel Aviv is on the verge of a military confrontation with Syria should peace efforts fail.
“We’re on a collision course with Syria,” said Maj.-Gen. (res.) Amos Gilad, who heads the Defense Ministry’s Diplomatic-Security Bureau.
“If I’m right, we need to exhaust all avenues of reaching a potential peace with Syria” said Gilad adding that if Israel fails do so “there will be rockets in large numbers targeting Tel Aviv,”The Jerusalem Post reported.
Israel and Syria have held four rounds of indirect talks before Damascus put negotiations on hold in protest to the Israeli deadly offensive against the Gaza Strip.
Israel had formerly said a peace agreement could be reached only if Damascus breaks its ties with Iran and ends its support for Hamas and Hezbollah.
Syria however has refused to scale back ties with its allies, Iran, Hamas and the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, demanding Israel’s withdrawal from the Golan Heights, which has been occupied by Israel since the 1967 Middle East War.
Gilad however, reiterated the demands, saying as part of a peace agreement, Tel Aviv should ask Damascus to cut ties with Iran, which would cut Syrian support to Hezbollah and Hamas. This type of peace, he said, would weaken ‘the hostile coalition’ in the region.
He concluded that Israel had much to gain and little to lose by trying to reach such a deal with Syria.
Source: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=84677§ionid=351020202
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February 6th, 2009 at 10:49 am
Israel is a terror to the World! God will give them what they deserve! Hopefully,very soon!!
February 6th, 2009 at 11:00 am
Israel increasingly is the `BULLY IN THE PLAY YARD’. Typically the psychology of such an entity is one feeling diminished in some capacity and feels it necessary to lash out at whom ever in order to compensate for such inadequacies. Fortunately for most and unfortunately for the bully – eventually there is retaliation to such behavior that comes when those being bullied realize they have the strength to stand up to such intimidation and often-physical abuse. Israeli’s day of reckoning will soon be upon them and they will quickly learn that those they thought to be behind them will give them up for what they have and continue to do to the Palestinian people and their supporters.