Syria to hit Dimona if attacked by Israel

Syrian Parliament member underlined that the country will hit Dimona nuclear reactor if attacked by the Zionist regime.

 

Lawmaker Muhammad Habash warned the Zionist regime not to attack Syria in an interview with the Israeli-Arab news paper Ma'a al-Hadat published on Thursday saying Israel's nuclear reactor might be hit in retaliation in such a situation.

 

'Nothing will stop the Syrian soldiers in this situation,' he said.

 

"The prospect that Israel might take some adventurous steps is reasonable to assume. In the last year, the Israelis decided to carry out some risky maneuvers and they were on the losing side and even today there are those that are pushing for war—even though Israel was on the losing side," the Syrian MP said.

 

 

"The possibility that Israel were to infringe upon Syria's sovereignty is a possibility that exists and that we're not ruling out, although at the same time, we are not looking to reach this stage and we do not want to escalate the situation," he said in the interview.

 

 

Dr. Habash was asked if Syria would be able to impede Israeli aggression. He answered saying: "The Dimona reactor is located within range of our missiles. Nothing will stop the fervor of the Syrian solder and the Syrian warrior in this situation."

 

The Syrian MP also discussed issues related to Zionist regime-Syrian negotiations. According to Dr. Habash, there are no Zionist-Syrian backchannels and Damascus only supports public negotiations in which its demands are very clear—the return of the Jolan area as well as half a million Palestinian refugees currently residing in Syria to their lands.

 

In the meantime, Habash is promising that normalization with Zionist regime will not occur as long as negotiations are not completed. "Syria is not thinking about normalization with Israel before peace is achieved because normalization for free is assumed to be bribery."