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At the same time, the Jordanian monarch cannot have missed the signal from Israel that it would refrain from any such protective action in future. Of all the Arab parties to the negotiations, the Syrians, anxious to reclaim the Golan Heights, pose the only credible military threat to Israel and will find the greatest difficulty in sur- mounting the psychological and political barriers to achieving a formal, contrac- tual accord with the "Zionist enemy." The Syrians and their Lebanese proxies will prob- ably be most resistant to a diplomatic settlement, but if Jordan and the Palestinians can muster the courage and overcome their inhibitions, it is difficult to imagine President Assad allowing the process to conclude without him. At that point, he will either jump on the diplo- matic bandwagon or take measures that would effec- tively derail it. In the search for signs and wonders that point to possi- ble future directions in Mid- dle East relations, it is an ominous yet incontrovertible fact that even while the Syrian delegates are talking peace in Washington, Presi- dent Assad shows every in- dication of preparing for war at home. Cash-strapped Syria has already spent virtually all of its $3 billion Golf War wind- fall from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait on fresh con- signments of upgraded Scud missiles from China and North Korea. Some Israeli analysts believe President Assad ultimately will be unable to leap the political and psychological hurdles that are necessary to achieve a formal peace with the Jew- ish state. They fear that the polit- ically savvy Syrian leader is playing a long hand and buying favor in the West through participation in the peace process. His strategy, they say, is to amass diplo- matic capital now which will be spent in a military con- flict with Israel later. When the crunch comes, it is thought he may choose to gamble on a limited military strike aimed at grabbing a foothold on the Golan Heights which he will seek to maintain until the UN Security Council calls for a ceasefire and forces Israel to hand back the entire ter- ritory under a dis- engagement agreement. Such a strategy would allow him to have his cake and eat it — to retrieve the Golan Heights without hav- ing to pay a political price. It also could have dangerous and unpredictable conse- quences. A similar threat was de- terred in the mid-eighties when Israeli officials perceived a military strike from Damascus and went to great lengths to make it known to Mr. Assad that any military adventures would be met with "a massive and overwhelming response." At that time the message was received, believed and the threat was averted; but Israel's restraint during the Gulf War may have served to dilute the credibility of the tough talk. President Assad, now deprived of his Soviet patron, may well calculate, rightly or wrongly, that he will never be stronger or better equipped for a serious confrontation with an Israel which now will be restrained by a less-indulgent Wash- ington. There is great truth in the cliche that when the Middle East is not moving toward peace it is moving toward war. The old maxim will be tested to the limit in the coming months. ❑ '""1 1 N EWS False Alarm Triggers Hit Tel Aviv (JTA) — A false alarm triggered the heavy shelling of two Shi'ite villages in the southern Lebanon security zone last week. The Israel Defense Force and its allied South Lebanon Army let loose an artillery barrage against Kabrikha and Majdal Slim villages on the northern edge of the zone, after the explosion, of what they believed was an incoming Katyusha rocket. Actually, the blast was a land mine detonated by a wandering wild boar.