[MEMRI] Following international efforts to send a multinational force to Lebanon under the aegis of the UN, the Syrian government press has published several articles threatening to attack the multinational force and Israel. An editorial in the Syrian government daily Al-Ba'ath on July 27 said: "As long as [the international forces] are of this type, it will be necessary for the forces facing Israel in southern Lebanon, the Arab brothers, and those friends in the world who stand alongside the resistance to put up resistance against them and to clash with them, through various means and methods." In an editorial in Teshreen on July 30, Izz al-Din Darwish wrote: "The Lebanese will be forced to treat these international forces as occupation forces in their land." Fuad Sharbaji, former director of Syrian national television, wrote in Teshreen on July 30, "We will never agree to any force that tries to take away our weapons of honor, and we will not allow Israel to achieve its goals through international forces or NATO forces or multinational forces. We in Syria...are armed with what is needed in order to hurt the enemy and to spring surprises on him that will complement what the Lebanese resistance has done."
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