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Syria urges firm US plan on Middle East peace
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Published: 13.11.09, 12:45
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1. Obama should not be part of any discussions
Eric ,   Tel Aviv & New York   (11.13.09)
Since Assad is interested in working out a deal with Israel he should do what Jordan and Egypt did - talk to Israel directly. Asking Obama to lead or guarantee these talks after turkey failed is a waste of everyone's time.
2. Peace with Syria? Certainly: Peace for Peace!!!
Eitan ,   Qatzrin, Israel   (11.13.09)
3. ASSAD YO CAN FORGET ABOUT
LAWRENCE RAP ARTISTE ,   SAFED ISRAEL   (11.13.09)
The Golan.
4. Obama? Why not Assad?
Manny ,   Canada   (11.13.09)
If Assad really wants peace with Israel, why doesn't HE come up with a peace plan?
5. Today, holding the Golan is more important than ever:
Ron B. ,   Lod   (11.13.09)
Giving away the Golan can only lead to a catastrophe! The Golan Heights will turn into the radical spearhead against Israel, and not only from Syria: People will be coming from Iran, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Terrorism will be two-pronged both from the Golan and from Lebanon. Life in the Galilee region and northern Israel will turn into an unbearable nightmare, worse than it was before 1967. About a million Syrian residents will be settled in the Golan immediately – The situation will be irreversible… Nowadays, the Golan is the safest region of Israel as explained at : http://xrl.us/bk9g2
6. A full withdrawal...
FO ,   Belgium   (11.13.09)
from the Golan Heights...and Ynetnews adds, "a strategic plateau Israel captured in a 1967 war and later annexed. NO Ynetnews, Israel didn't capture the Golan, Israel liberated the Golan, for the simple reason that the Golan Heights NEVER were Syrian territoriy. Once more and again: according to the "Mandate for Palestine" voted by the League of Nations, unanimously by all its 51 members the 24th of July 1922, the Golan Heights were an integral part of the territory to become the Jewish National Home. In clear the future Jewish state! The Golan Heights were illegally given away by Britain, the Mandatory of Palestine, by breaching Article 5 of the League's resolution. They ave it away to the French Mandate of Syria
7. "president" o-BUM-a can come up with a plan for a terrorist
Bunnie Meyer ,   Los Angeles, CA USA   (11.13.09)
leader, after all he is terrorizing everyone in the US with his economic policies. The Golan was lost by Syria and annexed to Israel after a WAR. You don't try to kill everyone and then get everything back when you lose, you PAY a PENALTY, the loss of the Golan for instance.
8. #4 Manny - He did and was turned down
Eric ,   Tel Aviv   (11.13.09)
Manny Assad did propose a peace plan, first Israel agrees to give up the Golan and then Syria and Israel sit down to negotiate peace. As Israel is not going to agree to start at the end and then have nothing to discuss it was a non-starter.
9. A quote from Assad the Eye Doctor who cant see eye to eye
Alan ,   SA   (11.13.09)
"It would be wrong to think that peace will come through negotiating. It will come through resistance,"
10. Continuation of Talkback #6
FO ,   Belgium   (11.13.09)
The Golan Heights were illegally given away to the French Mandate of Syria on March 1923. This territorial transfer was made surreptitously in a capricious and arbitrary fashion by the British whose sole interest was to secure Mosul's oil fields to Irak. A Mandate is a Trust, according to Article 80 of the United Nations Charter. Israel's decision to impose its Laws on the Golan Heights on December 14, 1981, RIGHTED the WRONG that was commited by the French in March 1923. Syria cannot make a standing claim in an International Court of Law. The "Golan Heights as they are know today, were never part of Syrian Real Estate, but part of the "Palestine Mandate". (Excerpts from "A Special Report Prepared for the U.S. Center for Security Policy.) Can somebody explain to me why no Israeli politician or leader, not even PM Netanyahu or Minister Benny Begin, don't make use of those fundamental historical facts?
11. Why the urge ???
Trumpeldor   (11.13.09)
Everything is quiet on our Golan !
12. For once Assad is using smart tactics
zionist forever   (11.13.09)
He knows Obama is on the side of the arabs not Israel because he is trying to reach out to the muslim world and the man is obsessed with the peace process. He is also now discovering as Clinton did the palestinian track isn't going as well as he planned then why not start with Syria. He is also under the dillusion that a peace treaty will be the key to stopping Iran getting nukes. Assad isn't after real peace he is after the Golan where he will replace the jews with 500,0000 arabs creating a potential Gaza in the north. He is also inisisting we give him land up to the Kineret shores because he wants more than his share of Israels water as part of the package Add to that the fact that America gives as standard a military aid package to any arab state that signs a treaty. So that will give Assad F16s, Abrams tanks, new war ships. The man is using maffia tactics. His words sound respectable but his actions are you give me protection money in the form of the Golan or else I carry out attacks against you. He knows France & Europe will take his side. His new found good relations with Turkey are getting him for former mediators backing his corner. Obama has become an arab champion and wants a peace treaty of any kind with any arab state because he is desperate to try and prove he is worthy of the Nobel Prize. Assad doesn't usually get his tactics right but in this case he is saying all the right things even if he doesn't mean them.
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