The two excerpts lay out the Tale
Massive saber rattling from all Sides!
SYRIAN FOREIGN MINISTER MOALLEM WARNS:
“IF a War between Syria and Israel BREAKS out,
It would be “total and take place inside your cities.”
I ‘Think’ this Current wave of wild Saber Rattling Will Cease,
But I am glad I picked 2010 as earliest date for war to Start.
A Full Blown War Has To Eventually Occur in the Middle East
According to Prophecy But I Doubt If THIS Particular Episode
Of saber rattling is the immediate prelude to final great War!
February 5, 2010
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Begin Excerpt 1 from THE JERUSALEM POST
Assad: Israel pushing Middle East to war
BY JPOST.COM STAFF
04/02/2010 01:45
Syrian FM warns Israel next war will be fought “inside your cities.”
Syrian President Bashar Assad on Wednesday said Israel was not serious about wanting peace,
and accused the Jewish state of leading the Middle East towards war.
“Israel is not serious about achieving peace since all facts point out that Israel is pushing the region towards war, not peace,” the Syri an s
tate-run news agency quoted Assad as saying in a meeting with Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos on Wednesday.
Earlier Wednesday, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem warned Israel that if war were to break out between Syria and Israel, it would be fought “inside your cities.”
“Israel must stop being the neighborhood bully. Don’t test our determination,” Moallem said during a press conference in Damascus where Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos was also present.
“One day you threaten Gaza, the next day you threaten Lebanon, then Iran and now Syria.”
Moallem warned that if a war between Syria and Israel breaks out, it would be “total and take place inside your cities.”
His words were a reaction to a statement by Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who said at the Herzliya Conference on Tuesday that if an agreement with Syria was not reached, the two countries might be dragged into a “forceful confrontation that may deteriorate into all-out war.”
“In the reality of the Middle East, we will conclude such a war and then sit and negotiate, talking about the exact issues we have been debating with the Syrians for the past 15 years,” said Barak.
Moallem said Syria “assesses that such a war will break out, we must not rule
out such a possibility. I would say it would be a total and expansive war, whether it begins in South Lebanon or in Syria.”
Trying to calm the atmosphere, Moratinos said he had just returned from a visit to Israel and left with the feeling that Israelis had “a will for peace.” He said he did not hear “the drums of war” while he was here. Moratinos promised that Spain would “continue to do its utmost so that peace talks in the Middle East will be renewed as soon as possible.”
Moallem’s bellicose remarks followed quick on the heels of reports that the United States is returning its ambassador to Syria, after five years when the American representation in Syria was only by low-level diplomats.
Moallem confirmed that the US asked Syria to approve the nomination of Robert Ford as ambassador.
“The United States presented us with a nominee for ambassador,” he said. “This is an issue of American sovereignty and it is Syria’s right to examine the nomination.”
He did not say whether Syria approved or denied the nomination.
Begin Excerpt 2 from Islamic Siasat Daily via World News
Israel’s Lieberman issues stern warning to Syria
Friday, 5 February 2010
Jerusalem, February 05: Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman threatened on Thursday to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government in the event of a war, saying its troops would be trounced and
its regime would collapse in a future conflict.
Lieberman also advised Syria to abandon its dreams of recovering the Israeli-held Golan Heights in a speech that ratcheted up simmering political tensions between the two foes.
The exceptionally harsh words followed Assad’s accusation on Wednesday that Israel was the one avoiding peace, and his foreign minister’s earlier threat that Israel’s cities would be attacked in a future conflict.
The Syrians “have crossed a red line that cannot be ignored,” Lieberman said in a speech at a Tel Aviv-area university.
“Our message must be clear to Assad: ‘In the next war, not only will you lose but you and your family will lose power,’” he added.
Lieberman’s bellicose language contrasted sharply with the statement Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued late Wednesday, saying the Jewish state seeks peace.
It said Netanyahu “would be willing to go anywhere in the world, and doesn’t rule out any assistance by a fair third party, to promote the political process in order to begin peace talks with Syria without any preconditions.” Netanyahu reassured Syria on Thursday that Israel sought peace.
Syria demands the return of the Golan Heights — the strategic plateau Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war — as the price of any deal. But Lieberman, echoing Netanyahu’s position, said there would be no such thing.
“We must make Syria recognize that just as it relinquished its dream of a greater Syria that controls Lebanon … it will have to relinquish its ultimate demand regarding the Golan Heights,” Lieberman said.
Moshe Maoz, a political analyst at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, called the minister’s outburst “a disaster.”
——–Agencies
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