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Syria hints at resistance vs. Israel (Naked bias alert)
AP via Yahoo ^ | 11-06-06 | Albert Aji

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.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ape; collaborationist; mediabeast; orwell
Note that the AP did not choose to enclose "resistance" in quote marks in the first paragraph. Apparently even an attack by the regular forces of a sovereign country is now regarded as "resistance" if the target is Israel. What Syria is threatening is aggression, pure and simple, since they are not in possession of the disputed territory and Israel is. The APe writer also shows clear bias in using a loaded term ("brushed off") to characterize Israel's decision not to return to the talks. This obviously trivializes Israeli concerns, as though Palestinian murder squads were not a legitimate concern of civilized people. I wonder how the AP would feel if we "resist" this Orwellian propaganda by putting a cruise missile through Aji's bedroom window?

Remember Julius Streicher, Aji. Follow his path, share his fate.

1 posted on 11/05/2006 9:21:35 PM PST by atomic conspiracy
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To: atomic conspiracy

I can't believe that Assad would be that stupid. But Muslim Arabs often surprise me.


2 posted on 11/05/2006 9:25:58 PM PST by denydenydeny ("We have always been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France"--Wellington)
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To: atomic conspiracy

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.


3 posted on 11/05/2006 9:26:38 PM PST by Jedi Master Pikachu ( The EU is opposed to Saddam Hussein's death sentence.)
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To: atomic conspiracy

You'd think that they would eventually get tired of getting their a$$es kicked.


4 posted on 11/05/2006 9:49:57 PM PST by kinoxi
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To: kinoxi

Syria is feeling full of themselves lately because of the agreement with Iran.


5 posted on 11/05/2006 10:02:22 PM PST by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: atomic conspiracy
President Bush should use the hanging of Sadham as a reason to turn over Iraq to the Iraqis and free up our troops from the bullet and IED magnet patrols. Then we can go back on the offensive and whack Syria in a Shermanesque march to the Med, while we let our missiles stonageize Iran.
6 posted on 11/05/2006 10:16:02 PM PST by TomasUSMC ( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
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To: atomic conspiracy

"Syria hints".

Ridiculous. Syria is a lumbering murderer, out to destroy every man woman and child of Israel.

Cut the crap.


7 posted on 11/05/2006 11:25:14 PM PST by CBart95
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8 posted on 11/06/2006 5:52:26 AM PST by SJackson ( There is no threat. Communists are not about to take over our McDonald hamburger stands. John Kerry)
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