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Syria-Lebanon
Syria threatens to attack Golan settlers if Israel strikes again
2003-10-26
Hat tip to Drudge
Syria has threatened to attack Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights if Tel Aviv launches another assault on its territory. In a move that will raise tension after Israel struck a suspected terrorist training camp near Damascus earlier this month, Farouk Sharaa, Syria’s foreign minister, warned that further "aggression" would prompt Syria to use "other cards". Mr Sharaa’s threat, in an interview with The Telegraph, raises —for the first time since the Israeli raid — the prospect of Syria attacking the area seized from it by Israel in 1967.
And the end of the Baathist regime - if you can’t stop IAF jets from buzzing Assad’s palace, you’re gonna die if you attack Israel
They can't do nothing. Not taking Dire Revenge™ causes them to lose face...
The foreign minister also claimed that Syria was unable to stop resistance fighters pouring across the border into Iraq to attack American troops. "They are very determined and many of them dream of seeing an American tank," he said.
last thing that goes through their minds? It’s much bigger than I thought - OW!
Mr Sharaa added that Israel’s first incursion into Syria for 20 years had caused deep anger. While Damascus wants peace, he said, many ignorant Syrians wanted to hit back. The raid followed an attack by a Palestinian suicide bomber that killed 19 people in a restaurant in the Israeli port city of Haifa. "After the attack we acted in a responsible way and went to the United Nations and a majority of our people supported that," Mr Sharaa said. "But if we are attacked again our people will not stand for it and we have to carry out the will of the people.
Suicide rush to the Golan! C’mon! Who’s with me on this! Anyone? ....*crickets*...Al-Bueller?
"We have many cards that we have not played. Don’t forget there are many Israeli settlements in the Golan. I am not exaggerating but I am describing things as they might happen."
Like to play poker with a bad bluffer like this fool
One Western diplomat said that it was feasible that Syria could react to another Israeli attack by striking at Golan settlements, or by "reactivating" Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon. Such a reaction would "up the ante to a dangerous level", he said. Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in 1967 and annexed the area in 1981, claiming that Syria had used it as a base from which to attack Israel. More than 14,000 Jews live on the Golan and the slopes of Mount Hermon.
Syria had almost gotten the heights back through negotiations, then got huffy and arrogant because they were offered 97 percent of what they wanted instead of 100 percent. Sound familiar?
Washington is already planning tough diplomatic and financial action against Syria. Mr Sharaa risked further American criticism in admitting that Syria would could not control the border with Iraq and had failed to stop Palestinians, Iraqis and Syrians going to fight against American forces. "We are doing everything we can," he said."We have tightened our checkpoints and are turning people back. But the border is long and we cannot cover it all. If America, a rich superpower, cannot stop Mexicans crossing into the United States, then how can we, a poor country, be expected to stop Palestinians getting into Iraq?" he added.
Because Syria controls its side of the border. The U.S. doesn't have any problem keeping Texans and Arizonans from swarming into Mexico...
He insisted that President Bashar Assad’s government had closed down the offices of Islamic Jihad, Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command.
Lies, All Lies! Oops, I mean...
A visit by The Telegraph to the terrorist groups’ offices in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp, five miles from central Damascus, confirmed that the offices had been closed.
Did you look around the block?
A Western diplomat said, however: "Closing an office does not mean stopping the activities of an organisation. They can simply move elsewhere — and they have mobile phones."
Thank you Captain Obvious
The envoy said that there had been signs that Syria was making "some efforts in the right direction" on terrorism but added: "We know that these groups are still active here. They have contact with groups in Gaza and provide funding, operational and tactical support. Syria has a long way to go." Elsewhere in the refugee camp there was clear evidence that Palestinians are joining the resistance against the American forces in Iraq. Near the Al-Wasim mosque, a poster paid tribute to Thaer Abdullah Rahman, formerly of the camp, who was killed in Iraq two months ago.
How's it feel to be dead, Thaer?
Wajeeh Maoud, the mosque’s muezzin, who calls worshippers to prayer, said that many Palestinians were going into Iraq and a lot some had been killed there. "I don’t know how they cross the border," he said. "The Syrian government is not helping them. They are doing it by themselves."
"They just inflate, and float right over the border..."
Posted by:Frank G

#10  HAHA MAtt Drudge--the asshat who's filling in for the drug-addicted Limpballs?!?!? yeah I believe his bullshit
Posted by: NotMikeMoore   2003-10-27 12:53:31 AM  

#9  We got that too... LOL

Posted by: Shipman   2003-10-26 8:35:52 PM  

#8  nit picking: a failure to communicate
Posted by: Frank G   2003-10-26 7:58:41 PM  

#7  Syria reminds me of Cool Hand Luke

Yep. Inevitably
What we got here..... is a lack of communication.
Posted by: Shipman   2003-10-26 6:54:33 PM  

#6  Mr Sharaa’s threat, in an interview with The Telegraph, raises —for the first time since the Israeli raid — the prospect of Syria attacking the area seized from it by Israel in 1967.

A very good way to lose even more land.

If America, a rich superpower, cannot stop Mexicans crossing into the United States, then how can we, a poor country, be expected to stop Palestinians getting into Iraq?" he added.

The U.S. government can stop illegals. It just doesn't have the political will to do it.

If Iraq settles down, we will be in Lebanon again. This time with the guts to stay.

I'd stay out of the south. Too many Palestinian "refugees" there.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2003-10-26 2:29:29 PM  

#5  I hope they do attack the Golan Heights. That way Isreal has a even better reason ( Terrorism should be enough in the first place ) to bomb Syria. And they can even attack the Syrian army instead of just Terrorists!
Posted by: Charles   2003-10-26 2:13:14 PM  

#4  Syria doesn't have the cajones to attack Israel face-to-face. That is why they support Hez, IJ and Hamas. If they did would have to respond inkind and that would be bads for Syria. This equation doesn't work if Syria uses Chems or bios. Then Israel would nuke Damascus.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2003-10-26 1:02:58 PM  

#3  Syria reminds me of Cool Hand Luke, when he ties a rope to a tree to shake it to show he is doing what he is s'posed to be doing.

Assad sez: I'm shakin' the tree, boss.

Assad is just not syrious about fighting terrorists.
Posted by: badanov   2003-10-26 12:23:56 PM  

#2  If Iraq settles down, we will be in Lebanon again. This time with the guts to stay.
Posted by: Super Hose   2003-10-26 11:44:47 AM  

#1  "They are very determined and many of them dream of seeing an American tank," he said.

What is the last thing a bug sees when he hits your windshied?

His ass.
Posted by: Raptor   2003-10-26 11:41:42 AM  

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