The Latest in an Endless Chatter about Peace between Israel and Syria – Printing and ignoring them is Standard Operating Procedure!
July 17, 2007
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IF, IF, IF………………ETC., AND DOUBLE, DOUBLE IF…….has been the never ending descriptive word employed in peace talks with Syria for more than 40 years of strife between the two nations.
The only thing I can say about the entire process is this: IF, IF, IF, IF it ever does happen between the two nations, IT WILL NOT LAST VERY LONG – OF THAT I AM CERTAIN, WITH NO IF’s, AND’s, OR BUT’s!
Begin Jerusalem Post Article
‘Syria ready to talk peace but not via secretive channel’
JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST
July 17, 2007
“A number of delegations that have visited Syria have delivered messages from the Israeli prime minister by which he is seeking peace. One even came during the Second Lebanon War.
We consider this a positive step but our official policy is against a secretive channel of negotiations,” Syrian President Bashar Assad, who began on Tuesday his second seven-year term, said during an address he delivered before the Syrian parliament.
Assad called on Israel to publicly announce its intentions if the Jewish state indeed desired to make peace with Syria.
The Syrian leader asserted that his country’s stance was “clear” and that what was required to proceed with negotiations was “a formal announcement for the aspiration of peace [made by Israel].”
Furthermore, he stressed, any peace negotiations would be based on Israel returning to pre-1967 borders.
Such conditions, said Assad, would need to be made clear by any “serious” peace envoys.
Assad demanded “minimum” evidence that Israel was willing to formalize a peace agreement, citing the ‘Rabin Pledge,’ a promise made by late prime minister Itzhak Rabin to Assad’s father, Hafez al-Assad, in which he unofficially gave his word that Israel would withdraw from the Golan Heights in return for a complete peace agreement with Syria.
Although the pledge was never documented, Syria still holds it as a platform for potential talks.
End of Jerusalem Post Article
Isn’t that a wonderful solid foundation for peace negotiations – an undocumented pledge between what one dead man said to another
dead man. It reminds me of a childhood story I was told involving two other dead boys.
One summer’s noonday about midnight,
Two dead boys began to fight.
They turned their backs,
And faced each other.
They drew their swords,
And shot each other.
Two deaf and dumb policemen,
Heard the noise.
And came and killed,
The two dead boys.
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