Posted on 07/16/2006 4:14:08 AM PDT by Tom D.
Spirits Are High in Syria’s Capital as Leaders Openly Show Support for Hezbollah
By KATHERINE ZOEPF
Published: July 16, 2006
DAMASCUS, Syria, July 15 — The mood here in Syria’s capital was defiant, even gleeful, on Saturday as Hezbollah continued its rocket attacks on northern Israel.
Lebanese civilians fled their homes on Saturday south of Beirut. Many Lebanese have sought refuge in Syria.
Pop radio stations played jingoistic military marches, and the state-run daily newspaper, Tishreen, reported on a meeting of the ruling Syrian Baath Party by saying, “participants expressed Syria’s firm stance in support of the Lebanese national resistance.”
A Damascus businessman who would give only his first name, Mustafa, said: “I am 100 percent very happy. All of the Syrian people are happy, because we consider Hezbollah as being one of us.”
Though Syria has long supported militant anti-Israel organizations, including Hamas and Hezbollah, a radical Shiite militia in Lebanon with strong ties to Syria and Iran, such public directness on the subject is new, analysts say. They say the government is voicing such sentiments in an attempt to appeal to the Syrian masses.
“Yesterday the Syrian Baath party expressed its full support and sympathy for Hezbollah,” said Marwan Kabalan, a political science professor at Damascus University. “It is overt now, because this is no longer something the government wants to hide. People here are very emotional about the whole situation, and many of them wish that Syria would get up and join Hamas and Hezbollah in their battle against Israel.”
A half-dozen Syrians interviewed at random in Damascus cafes all said that they admired Hezbollah’s leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, for using military action to back his anti-Israeli remarks.
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Syria has attacked Israel; Israel is going to attack Syria. Will Iran answer the call of its "friend" Syria to attack Israel, thus insuring that Israel will bomb the hell out of Iran's neuclear facilities?
It might be a good time to buy oil futures.
I imagine spirits are equally high in the NYT that Syria is hanging strong.
Gotta give the people what they want--you know.
Smackdown ahead.
Mustafa better get his out "Out of Business" sign ready-- oh and he might do well to print it in Hebrew.
Should be:
Syrian Leaders Are High
Perhaps they should look up at the Golan heights and think about what happens if they get Israel upset.
Those Syrian ragheads better find themselves a Gideon Bible in one of their hotels and start reading Isaiah 17 and *fast*!
I predict their damn number is UP.
I will ask on this thread too;
does anyone know what they prevailing winds over there are right now?
What the Syrians don't know is that this war hasn't even started yet.
Syrian leaders are not the first loosers to get "high". They really need to be brought down until they cry "uncle".
That would help them to stop frothing at the mouth.
Israel needs to by-pass Lebanon, bomb Syria and surround Hizbollah with the help of the U.S. and Britain. Then Iran can bargain or be gone.
Greg Tobin with Fox News said it was determined that the rocket which killed the nine people this morning is SYRIAN MADE.
Uncle doesn't translate into the same meaning in slime talk. To them it means stop killing us till we are strong enough to attack you again, and again, and again, until we either commit genocide against you or ourselves!
Stooopid pathetic deluded moooze, they're running after satan as fast as they can.
Piddly Putin has decided that if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Soon Putie will be wearing a burka.
We're at the Austria-Hungary goes to war with Serbia stage. The worst is still ahead.
Isaiah 14 also while they are at it. Amen.
Syria and Iran think they can supply Hezbollah with all the weapons they want and that Israel won't do a damn thing to them.
Well Sadat got the message. For all the good it did him.
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