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Israeli official doubts Syria's clout on Hezbollah
Reuters - Wednesday, September 9
JERUSALEM - Syria may not be able to curb Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas, a senior Israeli official said on Tuesday, casting doubt on the feasibility of a long-standing Israeli condition for a peace deal with Damascus.
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Syria, which pursued indirect negotiations with Israel last year, rejected the demand that it distance itself from Hezbollah and Iran. Syria, for its part, wants an Israeli undertaking to return the occupied Golan Heights. Israel has balked at this.
Amos Gilad, a top adviser to Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak, told an international security conference at the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Centre that Iran's influence over Shi'ite Hezbollah appeared to be far greater than that of neighbouring Syria.
"Hezbollah is an entity. 'Hezbollahstan' is much more powerful than Lebanon itself," Gilad said, according to an official transcript of his speech in English. "If Iran gets the nuclear , for sure it'll be more significant."
"In the past, we could have packaged deal with Syria that could include the terror in Lebanon, because the Syrians had their ways of convincing the Hezbollah to give up terror if they had the intention to do it," Gilad said.
"Now 'Hezbollahstan' is so powerful, I'm not sure Syria could deliver this."
Hezbollah was set up with the help of Iranian revolutionary Guards to fight Israeli forces that had invaded Lebanon in 1982. Hezbollah still has strong support from Tehran.
It has also been strongly backed by Syria which dominated Lebanon for decades until it withdrew its forces following the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri.
Israel has lobbied world powers to deny Iran the means to make nuclear arms, arguing that such a capability would threaten its existence and embolden Hezbollah as well as Palestinian Islamist guerrillas arrayed against the Jewish state.
Having fought a 2006 war with Hezbollah, Israel says the guerrillas are now rearming in U.N.-patrolled southern Lebanon.
The prospect of renewed cross-border rocket salvoes by Hezbollah could impact on any plan by Israel to attack Iran pre-emptively. Iran, which denies seeking the bomb, has vowed widespread retaliation should its nuclear facilities be struck.
Assumed to have the Middle East's only atomic arsenal, Israel bombed a Syrian site in 2007 which the CIA described as a secret nuclear reactor. Damascus denied having such a facility.
"There is no nuclear threat to Israel right now because Libya gave up its nuclear programme option, involuntarily. Iran does not have it yet."
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