“Syria has resolved to pursue its way, and continue preparing itself to bring about the liberation by way of popular revolutionary war.  Our last punitive operations were no other than the strokes of an alarm bell, warning the bandit state that the hour of liberation is drawing nigh, and the Arab masses are tired of waiting…Syria has resolved to launch the campaign.  She is convinced of victory, because all the Arab masses are behind her, tensed for action.  Behind Syria, too, stand her friends in the socialist camp.”

Source: 40, p. 14.