"Syria has the key to the solution of world peace or the Third World War." 
(Our Lady of the Roses,  May 30, 1981)

Our Lady of the Roses has given us a key insight into the Mideast conflict, that "Syria holds the key to the solution of world peace or the third world war."  We present below RECENT news reports indicating how Syria fits into this crisis.

Posted Wednesday April 18, 2001 - 10:18:26 AM EDT
Amman - Syrian President Bashar Assad warned Israel on Tuesday that it would bear the consequences of the deadly raid it carried out on Syrian targets in Lebanon.
    "Israel alone will bear the expense of its aggressive actions in the region," he said in a phone conversation with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan a day after the Jewish State raided Syrian positions east of Beirut, killing at least one soldier.
    Assad told Annan "the situation in the region is extremely complicated and important efforts should be made to meet the demands of Arab peoples." Earlier Tuesday, Annan accused both Israel and Hizbollah of violating agreements on the Israeli-Lebanese border and said he was "especially dismayed" by Israel's attack on the Syrian position in Lebanon. 
    He called on the governments concerned and all the parties involved to act with utmost restraint.
    During daytime, Israeli warplanes broke the sound barrier over eastern Lebanon, the same area where Israeli jets a day earlier raided the Syrian position. Syria said one soldier was killed, while witnesses said three soldiers were killed in the attack.
    Israeli planes also carried out reconnaissance missions over southern Lebanon and the Western Bekaa Valley on Tuesday.
    Israel had said Monday's attack was a message to Syria to curb attacks by the Hizbollah resistance fighters against Israeli positions in the occupied Shebaa Farms area on the Israeli-Lebanese border.   
    Hizbollah, backed by Syria and Iran, killed one Israeli soldier on Saturday in the Shebaa Farms, at the foot of the Golan Heights, which Israel seized from Syria in 1967.
    Syrian Foreign Minister Farouq Sharaa said Tuesday raids by the Lebanese resistance movement Hizbollah on Israeli targets in the occupied area are a legitimate act.
    "The Lebanese are defending Lebanese land which is under occupation. What happens in Shebaa constitutes a legitimate part of the Lebanese resistance," Sharaa was quoted by Syria's official press as saying from Moscow where he was on an official visit.
    The Shebaa Farms, situated along the borders of Israel, Lebanon and Syria, are "occupied Lebanese territory, and even Israel recognises that it is not Israeli territory," Sharaa said.
    Sharaa also said the Israeli air strike Monday demonstrated the that Jewish state "does not desire peace" and "was looking to kill the peace process." He added that Syria "has pursued a peace policy in calling for the application of UN resolutions and an exchange of land for peace." "Through its aggressive acts, Israel has widened the area of tension and instability in the Middle East ... It is in the process of killing the peace process," he said Monday from Moscow where he was on an official visit and called the raid "a gross violation" of international law.
    Hizbollah and its political allies on Tuesday pledged allegiance to Syria and vowed to mount further attacks on Israeli troops following Israel's strike on the Syrian base.
    Lebanese political parties sponsored by Hizbollah met at its headquarters in Beirut to show support for Syria.
    "The new Israeli aggression highlights the need for unity between Lebanon, Syria and the Palestinian uprising which requires support from the Arab nation to foil (Israeli Prime Minister Ariel) Sharon's aggressive and expansionist policies," said a statement issued by the parties after the meeting.
    The statement reflected a split within Lebanon over an attack by Hizbollah on Saturday on Israeli troops in the occupied Shebaa Farms area.
    A newspaper owned by Rafik Hariri, Lebanon's billionaire prime minister, said the Hizbollah raids undermined confidence in Lebanon and his efforts to ward off an economic crisis.
    "Can Lebanon bear an operation of this kind, with all its political, economic and social consequences?" the Al Mustaqbal newspaper asked on Sunday.
    In a clear rejoinder, Tuesday's Hizbollah statement said: "The Israeli aggression was aimed at stopping the resistance operations, which have been criticised by local parties using economic excuses." Hizbollah Deputy Secretary-General, Sheikh Naeem Kassem, added: "We have chosen the appropriate method to liberate the land and it proved effective. If anybody else has other methods, he can contribute, but there is no alternative to military resistance." SYRIA DEPLORES US' 'TOTAL ALIGNMENT' WITH ISRAEL Also Tuesday, Syrian Information Minister Adnan Omran said Damascus deplores the United States' "total alignment" with Israel, which "directly or indirectly encourages (Israeli) aggressions".
   "We are sorry to see the (United States') position totally aligned with Israel, which directly or indirectly amounts to encouraging Israel on its path of extremism and refusal of international peace efforts", Omran told Radio Monte Carlo.
   "The American position is interpreted by Israel and (its prime minister Ariel) Sharon as a green light for continued aggression and occupation", he added.
   "When the United States describes events in the region as violence and counter- violence, its means that they think George Washington, who led the American independence movement against British occupation, was carrying out acts of violence in response to (British) violence.
   "This means that he who fights against occupation is equated with the occupying force.
    We do not subscribe to this point of view", Omran said, adding it was the US duty to force Israel to respect international law.
    Lebanese FM calls for 'deterring' further Israeli attacks Meanwhile, Lebanese Foreign Minister Mahmoud Hammoud started meeting Tuesday with foreign ambassadors to ask the international community to deter Israel from repeating attacks into Lebanon, an official said.
   "The foreign minister has invited the ambassadors of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council to inform them that Israel is attempting to escalating the situation in the region," he said.
    "He wants to ask the international community to deter Israel from repeating such aggression because it is a dangerous escalation for the entire region," said the official, who did not wish to be identified.
   Hammoud spoke with the US ambassador David Satterfield by telephone on Monday, but no details were disclosed on that meeting.
   He met with Russian Ambassador Boris Bolotine at the foreign ministry on Tuesday and was also due to receive the ambassadors of France, China, Britain and Arab countries.
   "Russia is extremely concerned about the latest developments," Bolotine told reporters after the meeting. "The last (Israeli) raid is a dangerous escalation to the situation in the region, and this is unacceptable." "We call on all sides to observe maximum restraint to avoid increasing the escalation in the region," he said.
   Syria urges halt to contacts with Israel In Damascus, Vice-President Zuheir Masharqa urged Arabs to stop all contact with Israel in response to the air strike.
    Masharqa said Arabs should "work sincerely to confront the dangers posed by Israel and its racial and expansionist policies".
   "It is very important that Arabs implement the boycott rules against Israel to force it to accept the requirements of peace," he said in a comment published by the Baath daily, organ of the ruling Baath Party.
   In remarks in Moscow on Monday, Sharaa said the Israeli government had committed a "grave error" and would "receive the appropriate response at the appropriate time" for an attack he described as a "dangerous escalation".
   Security sources said Damascus had put its 35,000 troops stationed in Lebanon on high alert.

Israeli and U.S. intelligence experts agree that the Israeli-Syrian front is liable to flare up at any moment. Bashar Assad, dazzled by the power thrust upon him, is being pushed toward radicalization by his security entourage... 
     Therefore, he went on, quoting a senior (and unnamed) Syrian army officer, the moment the Syrian high command reaches the conclusion that an Israeli attack has begun with the aim of seizing territory or toppling the regime, orders will be transmitted by various means to the missile brigade to fire the Scuds, perhaps with chemical or biological warheads.
     IDF and Pentagon experts are less generous than the Lebanese journalist in their assessment of the Syrians' "last resort." They think Bashar Assad is preparing to fire missiles as a first resort - in retaliation for an Israeli attack on Syrian assets in Lebanon, which could come in response to another terrorist action by Hezbollah or by another hostile group that might operate on the northern border with Syrian consent. (Hawk in a gilded cage, Ha'aretz, November 10, 2000)

See also "Syria tests latest North Korean Scud, Newsmax," September 26, 2000

... Israel wants to use Russia's connections with the Arab world, and in particular with Syria, in the hope of bringing Syria back to the peace process. (The Black Shark could improve the environment, Ha'aretz, November 15, 2000)

In an unusually strident speech, Syrian President Bashar Assad on Sunday told the Islamic summit in Qatar that Israel is perpetrating a "new Nazism."
     "The Israelis kill, and the Arabs and Muslims are accused of terror and anti-Semitism," Assad said in his speech to the ninth summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference. "While they are trampling the principles of human rights, we are denounced and described as inhumane and backward. They curse the old Nazis, but they are implementing a new Nazism with no precedent in history." (Bashar Assad likens Israelis to Nazis at Islamic summit, Ha'aretz, November 14, 2000)

Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, Mufti of the Palestinian Authority and Jerusalem, returned this weekend from a visit to Damascus, and said that Syrian President Bashar al Assad agrees in principle to allow PA residents to enter Syria. Syria, which currently does not recognize PA passports, will also allow several Palestinian students to attend its universities, Sabri said. This is a change in Syrian policy, after years of animosity between the late Hafez al Assad and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat. (Syria to open borders to PA residents, Ha'aretz, November 13, 2000)

DOHA - Leaders of the world's 1.2 billion Muslims started converging in Qatar yesterday for an Islamic summit expected to call on Muslims to sever ties with Israel for the killings of Palestinians they say amount to war crimes....
     Delegates said the summit would be presented with a draft resolution, approved by Muslim foreign ministers on Friday, calling on the OIC [Organization of the Islamic Conference] to sever ties with Israel for what the foreign ministers said were war crimes against Palestinians.
     Delegates said the resolution was a compromise between radicals led by Iran and Syria which demanded immediate action against Israel and moderates led by Turkey and Egypt which argued against a total break with the Jewish state. (Muslim summit likely to call for severing ties with Israel, Ha'aretz, November 12, 2000)

... the bottom-line assessment of the present situation must be that Syria has largely placed in the hands of Hezbollah (and thereby Iran) the decision as to whether there will be a regional military confrontation along Israel's northern border. Or, to be more precise, whether or not the present situation degenerates into all-out war will depend on the nature of the military operations that Hezbollah will launch against Israel - if Hezbollah decides on such military operations - but will also depend on Israel's military response. (Points and Predictions, Ha'aretz, November 10, 2000)

Syria is willing to go to war with Israel if its interests in Lebanon are damaged, and is convinced that it could win such a war, a senior intelligence officer told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee yesterday.
      The officer said the Syrians see Israel's current conflict with the Palestinians as a rare opportunity to change the balance of power in the region in their favor. President Bashar Assad is staking out a radical position for himself in the Arab world, he said, and is hoping to take advantage of what he sees as Israeli weakness.
     Syria backed the Hezbollah's kidnapping of three Israeli soldiers last month, the officer added.
     Chief of Staff Shaul Mofaz told the committee that the likelihood of a full-scale regional conflict is now greater than it has been at any time in the past several years. The senior intelligence officer said such a conflict could potentially result from two developments: an intensified conflict with the Palestinians, if they feel they are not achieving their goals through negotiations, or a crisis on the Lebanese border caused by renewed Hezbollah attacks. The new Lebanese government, he said, is unlikely to do anything to curb Hezbollah, and there is also a chance that organizations not currently involved in terror against Israel will start carrying out attacks as well. (IDF: Syria would go to war over Lebanon, Ha'aretz, November 8, 2000)

The sermon that Rabin and Barak preached to the senior officer corps - which was already having nightmares about the commission of inquiry that would be established to investigate the blunders of the next war - that as long as the diplomatic process that began in Madrid and continued in Oslo was under way in the region, Israel would enjoy two advantages. First, Israel would receive well in advance - many months ahead, leaving plenty of time for military preparations - a warning about a possible shift in the balance militating against the prospects of peace and pointing to the dangers of a war; and second, because responsibility for breaking the process would devolve on the Arab side - the reference was, and still is, primarily to Syria - the U.S. administration would fulfill its commitment to supply the IDF with all it was lacking, ahead of the war and in its aftermath. ("A delicate balance," By Amir Oren, Ha'aretz, October 20, 2000)

"In order to avoid a destructive chain of events in the future, it is necessary to embark on diplomatic efforts with those who can influence the Hezbollah, mainly Syrian President Bashar Assad...'' (Keep calm on the northern border, Ha'aretz news, October 31, 2000)  

DAMASCUS - Syria accused Israel on Saturday of placing Middle East peace and all Arabs in the region in grave danger and called for an "appropriate" response.

Mr Ben-Ami said that the longer the present “low intensity” conflict with the Palestinians continued the bigger the risk that it would lead to a regional escalation. There are already fears of fresh fighting on the northern border with Lebanon, which could drag in Syrian forces as well. ("Conflict may spread, Israel warns Europe," UK Times,  November 1, 2000)

TEL AVIV — Israel is preparing for a two-front war as Syria appears to have given the Hizbullah and its Palestinian allies the green light for attacks on the Lebanese border with the Jewish state....
     "There is an effort by more than one organization to carry out an attack in the heart of the country," Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh said. "There are elements that want to draw us into a conflict in the territories and on the northern border."
     The officials said Syria is allowing Hizbullah to attack Israel from the Lebanese border. They point to the increasing shooting attacks from Lebanon on Israeli soldiers. On Sunday, Israeli soldiers came under fire near Kibbutz Zarit. Nobody was injured.
     "What worries us is that Syria does not fulfill a suitable role," Sneh said. "There are indications that it is acting differently. It could be because the situation in the Arab world, it does not have the motivation to stop this [Hizbullah attacks]."  ("Israel braces for two-front war," Middle East Newsline, October 31, 2000)

This week Barak spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin about the real danger of a flare-up on the northern border. He begged Putin to appeal to the Syrians and the Lebanese not to drag the region into war. During the meeting with the Meretz people, he also predicted the danger of "the opening of new fronts and significant incidents that will affect the public," hinting at dramatic terror strikes in populated areas. ("The man who doesn't listen seems to know what 'everybody' wants," By Akiva Eldar, Ha'aretz, October 26, 2000)

Syrian President Bashar Assad called on the Arab countries to freeze the normalization of relations with Israel, but added that Syria continues to support peace. According to Assad, Israel "must pay the price" for the spilling of Palestinian blood.
     The Syrian leader emphasized that he was not calling for an end to the bloodshed. "The blood was not spilled so that we will stop the bloodletting, but so that Israel will pay a price. I did not hear any Palestinian say during the struggle to end the spilling of blood. If the Palestinian wanted an end to bloodletting, he would stay at home." ("Angry Arab League summit supports peace," By Daniel Sobelman, October 22, 2000)

Regarding Lebanon, the opinion of the general staff is that hostile parties in Lebanon, whether Palestinians or Hezbollah, may soon join the fighting with the backing of either or both Syria and Iran. ("IDF: Clashes in territories may run into next year," By Amir Oren, Ha'aretz Correspondent, October 24, 2000)

"What Syria wants is clear -- the Golan Heights, the high ground captured by the Israelis in the 1967 war. It was from these mountains that Syria fired rockets on civilians in Galilee. It was from these mountains that Syria constantly threatened its neighbor. It is from these mountains that Syria hopes to hold the Jewish state hostage to terror once again. And it is these mountains that lie roughly nine miles from Megiddo, or the Valley of Armageddon.
     "In 1973, Syria launched the latest of a series of full-scale wars on Israel -- a sneak attack on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur. Most analysts agree that had Syria held that high ground prior to the invasion, there would have been no stopping the onslaught. As it was, the Israelis very nearly lost the war. Defeat was so close that Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and Prime Minister Golda Meir armed the "doomsday weapon" -- Israel's limited strategic nuclear arsenal. If Israel capitulates to Syria's demand for the Golan, the nuclear option may again be Jerusalem's only resort in the next war." (The Mideast 'peace' talks, WorldNetDaily, January 6, 2000)

"Syria is the main foreign power broker in Lebanon, where it keeps some 35,000 troops and with which it has a treaty of military, security, political and economic cooperation. Syria also backs Hezbollah." (Syria, Lebanon talk after Israel tightens security, October 28, 2000)

"... he [Barak] is clinging, politically speaking, to Sharon, although Barak is well aware that the appointment of the Likud leader to his cabinet could, as an unveiled threat to Syria, be interpreted as a declaration of war." ("Going down," Doron Rosenblum, Ha'aretz, October 27, 2000)

Israeli defense analysts believe Syrian President Bashar Assad has displayed "immaturity and poor understanding" in his relationship with Lebanon's Hezbollah, which is interpreting this as a green light to renew attacks on Israel.
     Responding to the recent attack near Har Dov when three Israeli soldiers were kidnapped, Assad praised the organization, referring to the "Sheba Farms" (at Har Dov) as "Lebanese territory." He said "it is the right of the Lebanese people to resist."
     Israeli security sources say Hezbollah understood Assad's statements to mean his tolerance of attacks on Israel is greater that of his father and predecessor, Hafez Assad.
     "This is immaturity on the part of Bashar, a failure to understand he is playing with fire. Hezbollah feels Syria is yielding on attacks [against Israel]," said one source. If Bashar does not rein these activities he may lose control of the situation, the sources warned.
     The defense sources believe Bashar Assad is under the influence of extremists in Syria, among them Defense Minister Mustafa Tlass. (Experts say Assad 'immature' in dealing with Hezbollah matter, Amos Harel, Ha'aretz Military Correspondent, October 26, 2000)

One of the major unknowns in this equation is Saddam Hussein. Contrary to the initial reports about the transfer of an armored force of Saddam's Republican Guard into western Iraq, this is not a move that is of concern to Jordan. If Saddam is preparing an expeditionary force to join an Arab front against Israel, the location of the force, proximate to the Syrian border, should indicate a build-up in Syria and through its territory, not through Jordan. Dispatching an expeditionary force would be a more reasonable move from Saddam's point of view than firing surface-to-surface missiles, as that would instantly undo a nearly decade-long effort of Iraqi denials that it still has those ballistic missiles. ("A delicate balance," By Amir Oren, Ha'aretz, October 20, 2000)

Our Lady - "Wars are a punishment for man's sins. Syria holds the key to peace at this time. However, I place in front of you, My children, a graphic picture for you to understand. It will be a parable for some, and some will turn away not willing to hear what Heaven has to say in these desperate times."
     Veronica - Our Lady is pointing up with Her finger, like this, to Her right side, and high above Her the sky is opening up - all the clouds are floating away and the sky is opening up and I see a map of the Mideast. And then Our Lady is pointing up farther and that's another map of China and Russia. Our Lady is turning back now: She was looking upward also.
Our Lady - "My child and My children, there are scoffers who will say there shall not be a Third World War. They do not know and cannot conceive of the plan of the Eternal Father. Be it known now that the Father has great heart for all His children, but when the sin reaches a peak only known to the Father the amount of sin among mankind, then the Father will take action." (May 28, 1983) 

Directives:

#57 -   The Great World War III Chastisement (Part I)
#58 -   The Great World War III Chastisement (Part II)
#59 -   The Great World War III Chastisement (Part III)
#101 - Russia and China, Part 1  
#102 - Russia and China, Part 2  

External Links: 

Assad Says Israel Will Have To Accept Consequences Of Attack
April 18, 2001  http://www.middleeastwire.com/syria/stories/20010418_meno.shtml 

IDF: Syria would go to war over Lebanon, Ha'aretz, November 8, 2000

Syria becoming increasingly worrisome to Jewish state, WorldNetDaily, November 2, 2000

Israel: Syria will pay the price for Hezbollah attacks, Ha'aretz, October 30, 2000

Syria, Lebanon talk after Israel tightens security, October 28, 2000

Arafat Envoy Arrives in Moscow for Talks, Russia Today, October 27, 2000

Hezbollah Calls on Arab Leaders to Support Palestinian Uprising, NewsMax, October 21, 2000

"A delicate balance," By Amir Oren, Ha'aretz, October 20, 2000

Kremlin puppets and how they work, J.R. Nyquist, October 19, 2000

Things that go bump in October, J.R. Nyquist, October 16, 2000

”Is this how World War III begins?" WorldNetDaily October 13, 2000

”Myths of the Middle East" - WorldNetDaily - Joseph Farah - October 11, 2000

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