VOL. XLV

No 27

8-July-2002

Arab Press Review

(MEES Translation)

Israels Plan For Syria

The following articlefrom Tel Aviv by Nadhir Majali(Israeli Arab journalist) entitled Israeli Military Intelligence Chief SaysWar With Syria Is Just A Matter Of Time appeared in the daily Asharq al-Awsat on 29 June:

In an obvious leak to the media from the leadership of theIsraeli army and it is unclear if the aim was to scare and threaten Syria ina covert way or to make it a real and declared war reports were...