Posted on 11/26/2007 7:09:52 AM PST by Traianus
Monday, November 26, 2007 - 11:00 AM
DAMASCUS, TV Monitoring
Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem has stressed that Annapolis Conference could be "an opportunity for peace if the Arabs committed to the Arab peace initiative and backing the Palestinian people".
He added that the meeting may constitute a step forward if the Arabs show commitment to a unified stance regarding the Arab peace initiative, Madrid Conference References and the Land-For-Peace principle, saying that "if the conference failed to achieve its goals, it is because Israel has no will for making peace".
In an interview given to al-Jazeera Satellite Channel broadcast Sunday, al-Moallem said " Syria is committed to Madrid Conference and the unity of all tracks as well as the comprehensive peace". Syria will not accept to use the Syrian-Israeli track to put pressure on the Palestinian track because the comprehensive peace can't be achieved except by the Israeli full withdrawal from the occupied Arab lands until the 1967 borders and establishment of the Palestinian independent state with Jerusalem as its capital, the Syrian official underlined.
"Annapolis Conference is not a normalization with Israel … we had participated in Madrid Conference for peace which was followed by a ten-year Syrian-Israeli and Palestinian-Israeli negotiations but we didn't admit Israel but on contrary Syria has still in a state of war with Israel", he stated… "Israel to be admitted should withdraw from all the occupied Arab territories until the 1967 borders", al-Moallem continued.
"We are not ready to establish negotiations for the sake of negotiations. We want a clear decision on achieving peace accord, this is not a condition but it is the criteria for seriousness to achieve the peace accord" he underlined.
He stressed that "we can't sacrify thousands of work hours of negotiations and return to zero square because the issue of Golan is very clear and it is not negotiable and the Israeli withdrawal from it to the 4th of June 1967 Line was a commitment of all the Israeli Premiers since Rabin so the starting point of the Syrian-Israeli track is very clear".
He said when the late President Hafez al-Assad met US President Bill Clinton in Geneva on 2000, the American President Clinton showed him an Israeli map goes a little far of 4th of June 1967 Line, President al- Assad said " I do not care", so the issue of land for Syria is inevitable and sacred, al-Moallem emphasized.
Regarding Lebanon, the Foreign Minister described the stability in Lebanon as "very important", pointing out that Syria extended help to the French efforts to reach a reconciliatory President, saying that "Syria will cooperate with France as long as France works for reconciliation, stability and security in Lebanon".
He added that any name that may be chosen by reconciliation and elected according to the Lebanese constitution, Syria will deal with him as a President for Lebanon Republic, expressing hope that the Lebanese parties will unify their stances in order to maintain their security and stability.
He described the Syrian relations with both Turkey and Iran as distinguished, noting that these relations don't contradict with the Syrian distinguished relations with the Arab countries.
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The map of Seleucid territory is after the Triparadisos Agreement (321 BC) and is the INITIAL TERRITORY of SELEUCOS Urartu is an incident since this drawing derives from FRAMES extracted from an *.AVI animation then isolated and superimposed one on the other..But when I looked for BABYLON the only frame where there was the map of it was with the joint map of URARTU.
The animantion is based on History not on the BIBLE...
I recicled the frames for biblical purpouse....
All right?
And monkeys may fly out of my butt.
Yes, it’s all right; no offense intended. I’m sensitive to maps from the Hellenistic era because I drew two for a history text I was working on back in 1997, one for 300 B.C. and one for 167 B.C. Then in 2005 I found the first map on the CD accompanying another book, the updated version of Archbishop Ussher’s “The Annals of the World”! And yes, I did contact the publisher and make sure they give me credit for the map in the future.
I think the exact identity of Seleucid Empire and the SYRO-IRANIAN sphere of influence is NO COINCIDENCE AT ALL...
Do YOU?
Peace??? Do we want peace???????
Obliterate Assad’s regime, obliterate the Mullahs, obliterate Hamas, Hezbollah, and the PA...... then there might be a basis for peace. Right now, “peace for our time” ala Chamberlain???? I don’t think so, not unless Israel is giving up on her existence....
p.s. What the h**l happened to the “Bush doctrine”???
I liked the part about destroying terrorists and the regimes that support them a lot better than this current appeasement nonsense.
Recently I read a book which proposed that the Antichrist of the Bible and the Shiite Mahdi are one and the same. I wrote about it on my blog, at http://xenohistorian.wordpress.com/2007/10/04/the-mahdi-antichrist-connection/
As for what you said, well, Iran and Syria both have Shiite leadership. Watch Azerbaijan, too; that is the only country which is both Turkish and Shiite.
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