Olmert: Prepare for war with Syria

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Source: The Jerusalem Post
February 26, 2007

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday ordered the IDF to actively prepare for war with Syria, despite buying in to assessments that such a conflagration is unlikely in the coming year.

Some Israeli defense officials point to Syria's rapid rearming and redeployments as a sign that conflict is on the horizon.

But IDF Military Intelligence chief Amos Yadlin told the cabinet that Damascus won't initiate a full-scale war with the Jewish state.

However, Yadlin did acknowledge that Israeli defensive measures, responses to Syrian-backed "Palestinian" terror, or renewed hostilities with Lebanon's Hizb'allah could in fact result in war with Syria.

Of course, the chances of Israel taking defensive measures deemed hostile by the Arab world, being forced to respond harshly to Syrian-backed "Palestinian" terror, or being dragged back into armed conflict with Hizb'allah are relatively high.

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