Pact of Defense in Spirit of Jihad
Iran, Syria, Hizbullah, & Hamas Pact!
4 Islamic allies have a pact against Israel
“Syria will not stand by idly next time Around
If Israel goes to war against Iran’s Nuke Program”
Or sends an aggressive attack on Hizbullah or Hamas!
February 9, 2010
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Begin Excerpt 1 from Jerusalem Post via Israel Nation News
Assad: Syria will stand by Lebanon
BY HERB KEINON
08/02/2010
Syrian president, Lebanese official discuss “repeated Israeli threats.”
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Syrian President Bashar Assad went in different directions with their statements on Sunday, with Netanyahu making conciliatory comments, and Assad responding by talking again about war.
Assad, according to the Syrian SANA news agency, held talks with the speaker of the Lebanese parliament, Nabih Berri, in Damascus and stressed “Syria’s commitment to stand by Lebanon’s government and people against any Israeli aggression.”
According to SANA, “Talks during the meeting dealt with the Israeli repeated threats against countries of the region and Israeli extremism, which is poised for burying any chance for reaching peace by inflaming wars in the region and taking it into the unknown.”
By stressing that Damascus would stand by Lebanon “against Israeli aggression,” Assad seemed to be
echoing Syrian Foreign Minister Wallid Muallem’s warning last week that Syria would not stand to the side if the IDF took action against Hizbullah.
Israel, meanwhile, has been saying consistently for months that it would hold the Lebanese government responsible for any aggression from Hizbullah, since Hizbullah is a member of Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s government.
Assad’s comments followed equally bellicose comments made earlier in the day by Syrian Minister of Information Mohsen Bilal, who said Israel was harming peace in the region and the world, and that its leaders should be tried in an international court.
Speaking at Kuneitra, on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights, Bilal lashed into Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who said on Thursday in response to Muallem’s threats that if Syria waged a war with Israel it would not only lose the war, but Assad would also lose his power.
Bilal called Lieberman’s words “barbaric and aggressive,” and said the foreign minister was ostracized by the entire world.
“These are barbaric and aggressive declarations that show the bankruptcy of that government, and the bankruptcy and barbarism of that man [Lieberman],” he said.
Netanyahu, who since the war of words with Syria began last week has been issuing statements trying to calm the situation, did the same on Sunday, saying at the opening of the weekly cabinet meeting that Israel hoped to complete peace agreements with all its neighbors, including the Palestinians and Syrians, just as it reached an agreement with Egypt and Jordan.
But, he said, Israel would be guided in those efforts by two principles.
“First, we will conduct negotiations without preconditions. We do not accept the idea that Israel must always make extraordinary concessions in advance while the other side is exempt from making its own concessions. It is negotiations that will bring about an agreement and we will not enter into negotiations when everything is known in advance.”
Second, he added, “at the end of the negotiations we need to maintain Israel’s vital national interests, especially security.
It is doubtful whether any peace agreement that is unaccompanied by solid security arrangements on the ground can last.
We want peace that will last for years, decades and generations and to this end, these components, especially security, are essential.”
Although Netanyahu asked his ministers last week not to comment on the Syrian issue so as not to exacerbate a sensitive situation, National Infrastructures Minister Uzi Landau (Israel Beiteinu) told reporters before the cabinet meeting that while he wanted peace with Syria, it would have to be a peace with the Golan Heights in Israel’s hands.
“The Golan will not be given to Syria,” Landau said. “The Golan is in our hands, the Golan is part of Israel, the Golan is vital for Israel’s security, and those who want peace cannot give up the Golan. We want peace, but those who attack us will pay a very heavy price.”
Welfare and Social Services Minister Isaac Herzog (Labor), meanwhile, called on members of the government to speak in more moderate tones.
“Israel has always known how to navigate in the world of diplomacy with responsibly, moderation and reasonableness, standing firm by its principles and positions,” said Herzog, whose father, Chaim, was an ambassador to the UN, and later the president of the state.
“I come from a family that understands a little bit about diplomacy, and I say that the diplomacy is measured first by restraint, cultured behavior and standing by our principles,” Herzog said.
Begin Excerpt 2 from DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
Iranian missile airlift stiffens Syrian war talk, tops up Hizballah, Hamas
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
February 5, 2010, 9:22 AM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKAfile Iranian and military sources report the war threats from Damascus this week were backed by massive Iranian airlifts for boosting Syria’s missile arsenal. Fresh supplies also reached the Lebanese Hizballah and Hamas in Gaza. Wednesday, Feb. 3, Syrian president Bashar Assad accused Israel of seeking war, while his foreign minister Walid Moallem boasted: “You know that war at this time will come to your cities.” They spoke after taking delivery of 100 new medium-range surface-to-surface missiles from Iran in January.
Moallem’s threat was comprehensive: “….Syria calls on Israel to halt directing threats once against Gaza, another against South Lebanon, then Iran and now Syria.”
His message that all four extremist allies had formed a mutual defense pact against Israel raised temperatures to a dangerous level in the region. Syria will not stand by idly next time round if Israel goes to war against Iran’s nuclear program or an aggressive Hizballah or Hamas, but go for Israel’s cities.
This was public confirmation for the first time of DEBKAfile’s disclosure that on Dec. 17, Iranian defense minister Gen.
Ahmad Vahidi signed a secret military pact with his Syrian opposite number Gen. Ali Habib in Damascus, with Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah appending his signature later.
Within days, Iran began shipping missile supplies by air to Damascus, Syria stepped up the pace of its smuggled rocket supplies to Hizballah in South Lebanon and both pumped hardware to Hamas by serpentine routes.
Syrian leaders used the visit to Damascus of Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos as the stage for their heightened stridency. US Middle East envoy George Mitchell heard a similar harsh threatening tone against Israel when he called on Bashar Assad in Damascus on Jan. 20. Neither Washington nor Jerusalem were caught by surprise.
Israel’s prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu commented nonchalantly that he does not understand what the Bashar Assad wants, confiding to his aides that his goal is to gain international goodwill before Israel decides to attack Iran. Next day, Feb.
4, hardline foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman was more outspoken: “Assad must be told bluntly,” he said, “that in the next war, not only will Syria be beaten but he and his family will lose power. You will not remain in power, and neither will your family.”
While his words were widely reported, the doves of the Labor party, the opposition Kadima and the left found his tone outrageous
and called on the prime minister fire him.
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