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Official: Jerusalem does not expect Syrian retaliation following reports of Israeli strike

By REUTERS, JPOST.COM STAFF

NOVEMBER 1, 2013 18:46

Israel did not expect Syria to respond following reports in the US media of an Israeli strike on a Syrian base near the port of Latakia, an unidentified senior official said while declining to confirm any Israeli attack.

"[Syrian President Bashar] Assad is disarming (his chemical weapons) out of his own interests. He knows how to make the necessary distinctions," said the official, who declined to be named.

Uzi Rabi, director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv University, said Israel had to make many calculations before approving attacks on Syria.

Rabi said the "working assumption" in Israel was that Assad was so focused on battling rebels that he could not afford to retaliate. However, he expected that Syria would seek international support to prevent Israeli air strikes.

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