Assad Warns Of Growing Threat Of Middle East War

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Assad Warns Of Growing Threat Of Middle East War
Syria will not negotiate with Israel over letting it keep the Golan Heights, President Bashar al-Assad said Sundat, days after Israel's prime minister expressed interest in resuming talks with Damascus. In a statement on Syrian army day published in official media on Sunday, Assad repeated his assessment that the possibility of another Middle East war was rising in the absence of what he called Israel's willingness to make peace. "If anyone thinks that Syria might negotiate over its occupied land then they are mistaken," Assad said. "The liberation of the Golan is a deeply ingrained right. Peace requires restoring all the occupied soil until the line of June 4, 1967," he added. The Six-Day War broke out a day after this date and Israel swiftly defeated the armies of Syria, Jordan and Egypt. Syria lost the Golan Heights to Israel, which annexed the territory in the early 1980s but did not build settlements on it as heavily as in the West Bank. A United Nations Security Council resolution declared the annexation illegal. Assad said that while Syria was sticking to its pursuit of peace with Israel the army had to be prepared for war.