Syrian President Bashar Assad said "Syria would continue to support Hamas and Hizbullah," Israel Radio reported Thursday overnight. Assad spoke in a two-day convention of the Baath' Party. He mentioned "the legitimate right of these groups to continue the resistance, until we regain occupied land."
Sources in the convention quoted Assad as saying that peace throughout the Middle East would only come when Israel returned "stolen Arab land", including the Golan Heights. The Baath' convention precedes a referendum which is in effect the Syrian form of elections. Baath' sources expect the party, and Assad, to continue holding Syria's reins in the coming seven years. |