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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Olmert: 'The Syrians know what we want and we know what they want'
2008-05-23
"The Syrians know what we want and we know what they want," Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday, the day after the opening of diplomatic negotiations with Damascus were announced.
"And we know that they know what we want, and that we know what they want!"
Speaking to French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner in Jerusalem, Olmert said that Israel intends to conduct negotiations on both the Syrian and Palestinian tracks, with neither coming at the expense of the other.
"And they know that we know that they know what we want, that that they know that we know what they want!"
The prime minister made it clear that Israel aspires to reach peace with the Palestinians in the coming year and added that both his talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on this issue and the talks between the heads of the negotiating teams - Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and PA negotiator Ahmad Qurei - were "serious and important."
Posted by:Fred

#8  I think Ehud wants Syria to "come to the rescue" in Leb and clamp down on Hizballah.

That was the situation prior to the March 14 uprising, when Syria controlled Lebanon.

A policy which will probably prove too clever by half

I don't know. The impression I get is that it's preferable to have a known enemy, any known enemy, in charge of the country, than the present situation.
Posted by: Pappy   2008-05-23 12:55  

#7  I think Ehud wants Syria to "come to the rescue" in Leb and clamp down on Hizballah.

A policy which will probably prove too clever by half.
Posted by: charger   2008-05-23 11:31  

#6  And we know the jooos want to dump Ehud.
Posted by: wxjames   2008-05-23 10:55  

#5  They want to exterminate us---now, what do we want, Ehud?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2008-05-23 09:56  

#4  "Olmert said that Israel intends to conduct negotiations on both the Syrian and Palestinian tracks, with neither coming at the expense of the other. "

Not at the expense of each other, from Israels POV, but with added leverage in each one from the existence of the other.
Posted by: liberalhawk   2008-05-23 09:03  

#3  Ummm, we want them to stop trying to kill us all via their proxies. They want to kill us all.


Seems like an easy negotiation to me. Compromise and let them kill half of you.


(do I need a sarc tag?)
Posted by: AlanC   2008-05-23 09:01  

#2  FREEREPUBLIC > SYRIA, HAMAS, AND ABBAS = As per its covert talks wid ISRAEL [one year[,IS SYRIA INDIC A WILLINGNESS TO SWITCH TO AMERICA + ISRAEL FROM IRAN???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-05-23 01:05  

#1  But we know there are things that we don't know, and they know we don't know those things. That much remains clear.
Posted by: Muggsy Gling   2008-05-23 00:33  

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