Posted on 11/05/2006 9:21:33 PM PST by atomic conspiracy
By ALBERT AJI, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 7 minutes ago
QUNEITRA, Syria - Syria could resort to armed resistance if peace negotiations do not lead to Israel's return of the Golan Heights, the country's Information Minister said Sunday.
Mohsen Bilal said international negotiations should lead to Israel giving back the Golan Heights, captured from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war and later annexed. If that does not happen, he warned Syria could resort to "other means, which struggling people have used at various points in history, beginning with legitimate resistance."
But Bilal said Syrians were eager to resume talks.
"The road for peace and stability in the region and the world goes through ending occupation" of the Golan Heights, he said, opening a three-day media forum geared at highlighting Syria's right to the Golan.
Israeli-Syrian peace talks broke down in 2000, with Syria demanding assurances it would get back all of the Golan Heights. Israel wanted slight modifications to the pre-1967 line, conforming to the international frontier, and insisted that issues of security and normalization be spelled out first.
On Sunday, Syrian President Bashar Assad, who was meeting with Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa, called for a comprehensive peace in the Middle East.
Israel has brushed off Assad's previous calls to restart peace talks, saying Syria must first clamp down on the radical Palestinian groups it hosts.
Remember Julius Streicher, Aji. Follow his path, share his fate.
I can't believe that Assad would be that stupid. But Muslim Arabs often surprise me.
At the same time, Israel is expecting a war with Syria and Hezbollah in 2007, so it seems both sides agree there is going to be conflict soon.
You'd think that they would eventually get tired of getting their a$$es kicked.
Syria is feeling full of themselves lately because of the agreement with Iran.
"Syria hints".
Ridiculous. Syria is a lumbering murderer, out to destroy every man woman and child of Israel.
Cut the crap.
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