Israel warns Syria to end provocation, says Arab neighbor would lose in future conflict
By APThursday, February 4, 2010
Israel warns Syria it would lose future war
JERUSALEM — Israel is warning Syria not to attack the Jewish state and says the Syrian president’s regime would collapse in case of a future conflict.
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s made the warning at a lecture at Bar Ilan University near Tel Aviv on Thursday.
His comments came a day after Syria’s foreign minister accused Israel of warmongering. Syrian President Bashar Assad has also accused Israel of not being ready for peace.
Lieberman warned Assad: “In the next war, not only will you lose but you and your family will lose power.”
Several rounds of indirect peace talks between Syria and Israel ended without a breakthrough in 2008.
Syria demands the return of Golan Heights — the strategic plateau Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war — as the price of any deal.
