Syriens Szenario: Erst wird Libanon angegriffen, dann wir, dann Irak
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Syria Says US Seeks Israeli Dominance
Via Iraq Overthrow
From JordanTimes.com
8-17-2DAMASCUS (R) -- Syria's state press said on Thursday US ambitions to oust Iraq's government were part of a plan to strengthen Israel by creating puppet regimes in the Middle East, and could include attacking Syria and Lebanon.
The comments came as US national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, said Washington had not decided the particulars of toppling Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, but that leaving him in power to get weapons of mass destruction was not an option.
An editorial in the Al Thawra daily said any US strike on Iraq was part of a plan to reshuffle the region and restore dominance that Washington's ally Israel had lost over the course of a Palestinian uprising against occupation.
ãPicking Iraq as a theatre for... US military action is a bid to remake the region by forcing states to choose: Either join the US bandwagon, get in line with its hypocrisies and oppression... or regime change on the pretext that they threaten US policy, interests and regional security,ä it said.
ãWashington's intervention via Iraq, it is hoped, will ease the plight of Israel and enable it to regain its instrumental regional role after being wrapped up in its security dilemma and challenge to its military, which can no longer do anything about the martyrdom operations.ä
Syria is among the most vocal critics of any US military action against Iraq, with which it is rehabilitating diplomatic ties and expanding economic cooperation which Britain alleges include a trade in Iraqi oil that violates UN sanctions.
US President George W. Bush has also demanded Syria cut its support for Palestinian groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad that carry out suicide attacks, and the Lebanese Hizbollah guerrillas who helped end Israel's 22-year occupation of south Lebanon.
Since the withdrawal Hizbollah has periodically clashed with Israeli troops in an occupied border zone, a front which the official Al Baath daily said could give Israel a pretext to join a US military campaign in the region.
"There is a scenario which has not received the attention it deserves, which begins with aggression against Lebanon, then Syria, then Iraq later" it said.
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