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08 Sep 2007 02:51:22 PM |
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Syrian Paper Says US Silence Over Israeli Overflight Encourages Jewish State |
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Syrian paper says US silence over Israeli overflight encourages Jewish
state
The Associated PressPublished: September 8, 2007DAMASCUS, Syria: A Syrian
government newspaper accused the U.S. on Saturday of encouraging Israel's
reported violation of Syrian airspace by remaining silent on the issue.
"This new Israeli hostile operation was carried out in coordination
between Washington and Tel Aviv," the Tishrin newspaper said in a
front-page editorial. U.S. silence can only be interpreted as an "overt
and scandalous encouragement of Israel," it said.
Damascus has said that Israeli jets broke the sound barrier flying over
northern Syria before dawn Thursday, then "dropped munitions" onto
deserted areas after being shot at by Syria's air defenses.
It is still unclear exactly what happened, and Syria has stopped short of
accusing Israel of purposely bombing its territory. An Israeli spokesman
has said he could not comment on military operations.
In Washington, the U.S. State Department also has had no specific comment
on the incident, citing the lack of details about what happened. Some
officials suggested the administration of President George W. Bush did not
want to stoke tensions further by taking sides between Israel and Syria.
The incident early Thursday came after a summer of building tensions that
have fed worries of a military conflict erupting between Syria and Israel.
Damascus accused Israel last month of seeking a pretext for war, and the
Israelis are keeping a close watch on Syrian troop movements.
Both sides have insisted they want no conflict along the disputed
frontier. But Syria fears it is being squeezed out of a U.S.-brokered
Mideast peace conference planned for November and will be left at a
disadvantage in the standoff with Israel.
"How could a superpower call for the establishment of peace and send
invitations to some countries to convene a peace conference at a time when
it maintains silence over a clear violation of the simplest laws and
international norms?" Tishrin said in its editorial on Saturday.
The newspaper also criticized Arab countries for planning to attend the
proposed conference. "How would they go to Bush's conference and how would
they justify to their people shaking hands with those who kill
Palestinians and Iraqis and threaten the Arabs' future with grave
consequences?" it said.
Meanwhile, Arab parliamentarians condemned the alleged violation of Syrian
airspace, saying the Israeli action "threatened national Arab security and
peace worldwide."
In a statement wrapping up a two-day meeting in Damascus late Friday, the
legislators from the 22-member Arab League urged the U.N. Security Council
to undertake urgent and necessary measures "to condemn this aggression
which represents a flagrant breach of the U.N. Charter and international
law."
The statement supported Syria's right to defend its sovereignty,
"especially its right to retaliate at the time it deems fit."
Israeli aircraft fly over Lebanon routinely to monitor Hezbollah
guerrillas, but it is unclear how often its planes fly over Syria.
Before and during last summer's war with Hezbollah, Israeli warplanes
twice buzzed the residence of Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus.
Analysts called the flights a warning to Syria to keep out of the fight
next door.
In October 2003, Israeli warplanes bombed a Palestinian guerrilla base
near Damascus, the first airstrike inside Syria since the 1973 Mideast
war.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/08/africa/ME-GEN-Syria-Israel-US.php
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