3. Syria sponsors Hamas in its territory
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It is in Syria's interests to distance itself from the Hamas organization at the state level, so that it can continue war-mongering against Israel anonymously and promote anonymous negotiation under the umbrella "Saudi Peace Plan".
Syria has people it wants to deport from its territory and wants a dumping ground, thus its promotion of "return" of all those it does not want to care for.
What is the Saudi Peace Plan text?
One reference to the text is:
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/israel-palestine/2002/0227palsaudi.htm
One key provision listed there is "independent, democratic and viable state of Palestine living side by side with the state of Israel". Obviously, that is not expected to happen with Hamas in power, because it claims not two states but a single state solution, a place to dump those Syria does not want to care for.
The second reference:
http://www.al-bab.com/arab/docs/league/peace02.htm
specifically speaks on behalf of Syria and its territorial negotiations with Israel after its having lost its offensive by launching an attack using the Golan Heights:
"I- Full Israeli withdrawal from all the territories occupied since 1967, including the Syrian Golan Heights, to the June 4, 1967 lines as well as the remaining occupied Lebanese territories in the south of Lebanon."
Syria is using this Hamas announcement as a negotiating point with Israel. Yet it does not need to take responsibity for it since it is a "Saudi" plan, and the plan does not bear the name Syria on the cover, allowing Syria to deal with internal issues with those who the Arab countries asked to volunteer to go.
The Saudi peace plan sounds remarkably close to Olmert's plan in the provision of the territory east of Omert's fence. Olmert does not pronounce any negotiations with Syria, everything is done under the table, and Western consensus is pronounced on the world-media.
In the meanwhile, those living in houses in the eye of the bulldozer are at great risk of becoming jobbless, losing their kids since they would not have a proper environment to raise them, and losing their jobs which have not been restore in the case of Gush Katif, even yet!
See:
http://english.katif.net/index.php?id=2145&sub=1
I see the struggle in Gush Katif and the struggle east of Omert's fence as fundamentally different. Gush Katif was a trial balloon, and it clearly was a test of the Israeli government's ability to care for 10% of what would be considered east of Olmert's fence.
That 10% has not been cared for according to the letter of the law, and it is an illegal situation that the Olmert regime is continuing to impose on a Jewish population. That illegality according even to Israeli civil law was just was not so there before the Sharon/Olmert progrom in Katif. It was more vague in terms of constitional rights versus concrete stealing of property and noncompensation after being promised said compensation in the Israeli legal framework.
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Syria's efforts are based on the idea that "there should be a separation between Hamas and the Palestinian government – between ideology and state."
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