Jerusalem – Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, Israel’s director of military intelligence, briefed Israeli government ministers at the weekly Israel government cabinet meeting about Hezbollah’s current operations in Syria.

“Syria is becoming Hezbollah’s weapons silo,” he warned.

“[Syrian President Bashar al-] Assad relies on Hezbollah today more than on his own army. Top Hezbollah leaders do whatever they want in Syria. The Syrians have given them free rein, and their behavior is irresponsible. They put at Hezbollah’s disposal almost all the strategic capability they have.”

Maj. Gen. Yadlin described the situation in Iran as one of taking advantage of the changing American and Israeli governments in an effort to improve its strategic position and fight off efforts to suppress its nuclear program.

“True, the world economic crisis is hard on Iran – and this is the point to note a drop of $15 billion in oil revenue – but at the same time, it even further lessens the willingness of the international community to take economic sanctions and to enforce them,” he said.

The Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) intelligence director also discussed the Sept. 27 terror attack in Syria in which 17 people were killed.

“Those who lie down with dogs should not be surprised when they wake up with fleas,” he said.

Maj. Gen. Yadlin said described it as a global jihad terror attack, which he said violated the unwritten agreement between the Islamic extremists and the Syrian regime, which mainly referred to giving global jihad free movement into Iraq and Lebanon as long as it didn’t act against the Syrian regime.

David Bedein can be reached at dbedein@israelbehindthenews.com. His Web site is www.IsraelBehindTheNews.com

©The Bulletin 2008

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David Bedein is an MSW community organizer and an investigative journalist.   In 1987, Bedein established the Israel Resource News Agency at Beit Agron to accompany foreign journalists in their coverage of Israel, to balance the media lobbies established by the PLO and their allies.   Mr. Bedein has reported for news outlets such as CNN Radio, Makor Rishon, Philadelphia Inquirer, Los Angeles Times, BBC and The Jerusalem Post, For four years, Mr. Bedein acted as the Middle East correspondent for The Philadelphia Bulletin, writing 1,062 articles until the newspaper ceased operation in 2010. Bedein has covered breaking Middle East negotiations in Oslo, Ottawa, Shepherdstown, The Wye Plantation, Annapolis, Geneva, Nicosia, Washington, D.C., London, Bonn, and Vienna. Bedein has overseen investigative studies of the Palestinian Authority, the Expulsion Process from Gush Katif and Samaria, The Peres Center for Peace, Peace Now, The International Center for Economic Cooperation of Yossi Beilin, the ISM, Adalah, and the New Israel Fund.   Since 2005, Bedein has also served as Director of the Center for Near East Policy Research.   A focus of the center's investigations is The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). In that context, Bedein authored Roadblock to Peace: How the UN Perpetuates the Arab-Israeli Conflict - UNRWA Policies Reconsidered, which caps Bedein's 28 years of investigations of UNRWA. The Center for Near East Policy Research has been instrumental in reaching elected officials, decision makers and journalists, commissioning studies, reports, news stories and films. In 2009, the center began decided to produce short movies, in addition to monographs, to film every aspect of UNRWA education in a clear and cogent fashion.   The center has so far produced seven short documentary pieces n UNRWA which have received international acclaim and recognition, showing how which UNRWA promotes anti-Semitism and incitement to violence in their education'   In sum, Bedein has pioneered The UNRWA Reform Initiative, a strategy which calls for donor nations to insist on reasonable reforms of UNRWA. Bedein and his team of experts provide timely briefings to members to legislative bodies world wide, bringing the results of his investigations to donor nations, while demanding reforms based on transparency, refugee resettlement and the demand that terrorists be removed from the UNRWA schools and UNRWA payroll.   Bedein's work can be found at: www.IsraelBehindTheNews.com and www.cfnepr.com. A new site,unrwa-monitor.com, will be launched very soon.