"Our forces are now entirely ready not only to repulse the aggression, but to initiate the act of liberation itself, and to explode the Zionist presence in the Arab homeland. The Syrian army, with its finger on the trigger, is united....I, as a military man, believe that the time has come to enter into a battle of annihilation."
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Syrian Defense Minister Hafez Assad (May 20 1967), quoted in Isi Leibler, The Case For Israel, p. 60.
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