Upset about Syria-Israel talks
- Author: Uriel Heilman
- Filed under: Arab-Israeli Conflict, Iran
May 23,2008
It seems Israel’s patron the United states isn’t the only country that is less than enthusiastic about Israel and Syria’s decision to restart peace talks. So is Syria’s patron, Iran.
Unnamed sources told the London-based al-Sharq al-Awsat that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad apparently is furious with Syrian President Bashar Assad for engaging the Zionist entity in peace talks, according to this Ha’aretz report.
President Bush doesn’t seem too enthusiastic either, as JTA’s Ron Kampeas reports. As the New York Times points out in its lead editorial Friday, it seems Bush was taking a swipe not only at Barack Obama in his remarks last week in Israel’s Knesset about appeasing terrorists, but also at his Israeli hosts:
Everybody knew President Bush was aiming at Senator Barack Obama last week when he likened those who endorse talks with “terrorists and radicals” to appeasers of the Nazis. But now we know what Mr. Bush knew then — that Israel is in indirect peace talks with Syria, a prominent member of Mr. Bush’s list of shunned nations — and it seems as if the president was going for a two-for-one in his crack about appeasement.
For his part, Obama told the Jerusalem Post he backs the Israeli-Syrian peace talks.
Elsewhere in the Middle East, Egyptian-mediated indirect talks between Hamas and Israel on a ceasefire collapsed Thursday. And the war in the Gaza area goes on.
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Israeli citizens also don’t like the move. Most of them think that Asad is leading Olmert in his noise, Syria wants to move the US threat from her back, Olmert in stake because of the police investigations in his judicial files, Israel with the Golan is safer than without in any case, the Israeli community on the Golan are mixed with right and left personal and grow up now the forth generation.
While I don’t care about American or Irani reactions to Israel-Syrian talks - for they both have their own eggs to fry - I, like many of my fellow-Jews, am baffled by the sudden erruption of these negotiations. What does Israel have to gain that it doesn’t have already? Does the Jewish state, under the “leadership” of the most unpopular prime minister in its history, wishes to reproduce the undignified “cold peace” that it now “enjoys” with Egypt? In fact, peace on the Syrian border since 1973 is eminently more desirable than the fig leaf that Israel is forced to provide to Egypt for its “Peace Parnership.”
Is this then merely an obvious and shameful diversion to take the Israeli public’s attention away from the smell emanating form the PMO?
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