Israel was about to attack Syria again

An Israeli military source said that Israel was about to consider launching an attack against Syria if a plan to attack an Israeli school had succeeded on Thursday.

In his statement to the Israeli radio, the official said "had the aggression against the school succeeded, Israeli would have retaliated, by attacking Syria because the orders came from Damascus." The Israeli official continued "This aggression aimed at undermining a chance to resume the dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians, and affecting the inter- Palestinian dialogue in Cairo, with the aim to reach a truce."

The Israeli minister of internal security, Tsahi Hanegbi, had stressed that "had the great aggression took place, Israeli would have expelled the Palestinian President Yasser Arafat."

However, a military source announced yesterday that the Israeli army detained near Jenin, the West Bank, two Palestinians belong to the Islamic Jihad movement while preparing to carry out an attack in a school in Yukin'am city, in the north of Israel. One of the detainees was carrying an explosive belt of 10 Kg of explosives.

Worthy mentioning that the Israeli army chief of staff hinted in November of likely Israeli attacks against Syria, similar to those carried out by it two months earlier, and targeted a position near Damascus. This would be if Syria continues to ignore the Israeli messages, as he alleged.