CAIRO, Egypt -- Ordinary Syrians might attack Israeli settlements in the occupied Golan Heights in retaliation for last month’s Israeli air raid on a purported militant training camp near Damascus, Syrian officials warned.
If your security post gets egged or TP’d don’t say we didn’t warn you.
Syrian Foreign Minister Farouq al-Sharaa said the response may come against Jewish settlements on the Golan, the strategic plateau which Israel seized from Syria in 1967.
Take this as a veiled threat - the way it was intended.
| This is veiled? Oh, how subtle. |
Syria has "many cards that we have not played.
(we have Go Fish and the Crazy Eights and the Old Maid and the ...)
Don’t forget there are many Israeli settlements in the Golan. I am not exaggerating, but I am describing things as they might happen," al-Sharaa also a noted Syrian astrologist said in an interview published last week in Britain’s Sunday Telegraph. Information Minister Ahmed al-Hassan expanded on al-Sharaa’s comments on Sunday, saying the government may not be able to prevent Syrian citizens from retaliating on their own. "A group of people might shell these settlements," al-Hassan quoted al-Sharaa as saying in the Telegraph interview. He did not elaborate.
In Fort Wayne the neighborhoods band together to contract snow and trash removal. In Syria they buy mortars - unless the Golan Best Buy provides rental service.
"The Syrian people, after being provoked by the Israeli attack on its territory, are asking the government to retaliate," al-Sharaa said, according to al-Hassan.
We have been flooded with petitions.
"It is difficult to restrain the people’s reactions, especially as there are Israeli settlements in the Golan within a short distance of Syrian territory. |