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“Syria’s sponsorship of Palestinian guerrilla attacks became so pronounced that American officials abandoned their long-standing opposition to Israeli retaliations. ‘An attack from a state is an attack by a state.’”

Syria’s personal reason to escalate tension with Israel: internal division. “Often the gray boredom of radically socialist Damascus was broken by explosions and the crackle of gunfire... Ranking officers and even government ministers were routinely arrested, and death sentences handed down for a range of political crimes, from ‘spreading confessional bigotry’ to ‘hindering the socialist order’.”