Commenting today on the military coup in Syria,### Israeli Government spokesman asserted that the seizure of power was “additional evidence how Arab governments continually try to play up first Palestine, and then the Israeli bogey, as a way of solving their economic difficulties.”
The foreign Ministry official added that he hoped that world opinion would realize that Gen, Husnt Al-Zaim, the Syrian Chief of Staff who seized power, had only the most superficial pretext for his act.
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