Syria rejects the Israeli threats, Hamas deplores
Syria-Israel, Politics, 9/3/2004

Damascus has strongly rejected the language of threats in which Israel is talking. The Syrian foreign minister Farouk al-Shara said that launching the Israeli threats "lacks the minimum degrees of credibility and evidence, and increase the pace of the deteriorated conditions in the region."

The advisor for the Syrian minister of information, Ahmad al-Haj Ali, considered that the Israelis are trying to create pretexts for aggressions against Syria, stressing that his country takes these threats seriously. He explained that his country supports the Palestinian question politically, not by providing military support.

For its part, the office of the Islamic Hamas resistance movement in Beirut issued a statement in which it stressed that planning and implementation of "Fedayeen" operations are made by the movement's military leaders inside the Palestinian territories rather than its political leaders in Damascus.

The statement accused Israel of escalating tension in the Middle East region in order to save the government of Sharon from internal problems it faces.

The Syrian statements came in reaction to the threats by senior Israeli officials of launching military operations against Syria and accusing it of being involved in the twin Palestinian operation which took place in Beer Sheba on Tuesday.

The Israeli deputy defense minister Zaef Bueam said that it is possible to launch operations against Syria under the condition to choose "the targets precisely and at the due time so as the Syrians would understand that there are red lines that can not be surpassed."

Israeli diplomats said that Damascus should pay the price of hosting leaders of the Hamas Islamic resistance movement. Tel Aviv accuses Hamas leadership in Damascus of being the side which gave the orders to attack the recent operation.

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