" Any Israeli aggression against Syria will be met with a firm and direct response whose timing and methods are unlimited..."
http://www.sana.org/eng/21/2006/07/16/47865.htm
Syria Vows Firm and Immediate Response if Israel Attacks
Sunday, July 16, 2006 - 03:00 PM
DAMASCUS, (SANA)-
Syria vowed on Sunday a firm and immediate response if she is attacked by Israel.
" Any Israeli aggression against Syria will be met with a firm and direct response whose timing and methods are unlimited," Information Minister Mohsen Bilal said.
The Information Minister stressed Syria's support to the Lebanese national resistance in defending the Israeli aggression, pointing out that the Israeli enemy is the big loser and the resistance will triumph.
" Syria condemns the Israeli comprehensive aggression on the sisterly Lebanese lands and precisely monitors what Lebanon is witnessing as will as she strongly backs the Lebanese people," Bilal added in a statement.
Dr. Bilal asserted that the resistance is a legitimate and holy right, stressing the necessity of distinguishing between resistance and terrorism.
He indicated to the big Israeli inner confusion, clarifying that Israel is facing a new era in its history due to the resistance strikes that targeted inside Israeli
" Israel doesn’t expect such strikes which constitute a success to the national resistance and its policy."
" Israel represents the organized state terrorism, occupation and usurpation which constitute the higher type of terrorism," Bilal said, adding : " Israel is the only outlaw side under the shadow of the superpowers' double standards,"
" While the international legitimacy resolutions are applied on some countries, Israel violates all the UN Security Council resolutions, agreements and understandings that Israel itself ,in advance, had accepted ." Bilal said, stressing that " Israel had foiled all the peace efforts including the Arab Peace Initiative of Beirut Summit,"
The Minister went on to say: "The victory will be in the side of the right and the triumphant will be the resistants who fight for the sake of the right, justice and freedom".
"We will struggle by all means for the restoration of the right and the establishment of the Palestinian independent state with Jerusalem as its capital." Bilal concluded, emphasizing the Palestinian refugees right to return home.
H.Zein/ Ghossoun