Syria: 'Israel doesn't have to make any concessions on the Golan'
In an interview with al-Jazeera today, Syrian Information Minister, Dr. Mohsen Bilal said that Israel doesn't have to make any concessions on the Golan to reach a settlement. But don't get your hopes up. This is all semantics.Syria on Thursday dismissed Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's announcement regarding the need to make "painful concessions" for the sake of peace while forcing Syria to cut off ties with Hizbullah and their Iranian patrons.Sounds like Olmert is on his way to cutting a 'great' deal. We give them the Golan, which they claim is 'rightfully theirs,' they keep supporting terrorism, and maybe they'll even get together around a table with us to 'negotiate.' Only a loser like Olmert would enter into this kind of 'bargain.'
"Olmert isn't making a single concession nor is it painful for him," Syrian Information Minister, Dr. Mohsen Bilal, told the Al-Jazeera news network. He also stated that Syria does not hide its political support for or identification with Hizbullah and Hamas.
"We demand that Israel withdraw from the occupied Syrian land of the Golan," Bilal said. "Israel is an occupying force that relies on American power and, therefore, the Israelis will not be making concessions; rather [the Golan] is our right."
Similarly, the Syrian minister said that if "the Government of Israel and Olmert are serious in what they say and what they've said to Turkey, they they should move on to an advanced stage of negotiations in order to return the Golan to Syrian Arab sovereignty."
Bilal went on to claim that the very "notion of 'painful concession' does not exist."
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:16 AM
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Buy up Golan wine while you still can.
:-(
My hopes were up for a moment.
- Steven
Olmert won't be making any concessions on the Golan, not beacuse "Israel is an occupying force that relies on American power", but beacsue Olmert doesn't have the power to concede anything. Except maybe his job.
We all know Ehud Olmert wants a legacy other than being remembered as a crook. So perhaps he will pay the price to get it, Israel's future be damned. Israelis know what kind of man he is as Prime Minister.
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