[Al Arabiya Latest] Syria's President Bashar al-Assad said Friday that he had no "Israeli partner" ready to push forward the Middle East peace process, rebuffing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's offer of talks.
Accusing Netanyahu of not being serious about peace, Assad told reporters he was not willing to hold face-to-face negotiations with the Israeli leader and called instead for lower-level dialogue under Turkish mediation.
"If Mr Netanyahu is serious, he can send a team of experts, and we'll send a team of experts to Turkey. Then we can really talk, if they're interested," he said in Paris, after talks with France's President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Netanyahu visited Sarkozy on Wednesday, after which an Israeli official said the premier was "willing to meet the Syrian President at anytime and anywhere to move on the peace negotiations on the basis of no pre-conditions."
Syria, however, has long had one main pre-condition for talks with Israel -- the return of the strategic Golan Heights, a plateau which Israeli captured in the countries' 1967 war and unilaterally annexed in 1981.
"Today, Syria wants peace. There is a mediator, Turkey, which is ready to resume its mediation. There is also French and European support for this process," Assad told reporters at Sarkozy's Elysee Palace.
"What we lack is an Israeli partner who is ready to go forward and ready to come to a result," he declared.
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#1
So, the Israeli's don't want to give Syria back the old gun platform they used for artillery target practice into the interior of Israel? Can't think of a reason why not. /s
#2
Forget" Peace ". Think Victory. Do you know when you 'negotiate"...when you ARENT winning.
You admit you arent winning when you "negotiate".
You admit you CANT win when you negotiate.
Poison the wells. Kill the Cattle. Shoot his dog. Cripple his mother. If he doesnt like it, listen to him squeal. His squealing is what you want. WhatEVER he wants DONT give it to him. Even if you dont need it, dont let him have it.
Double that. Do it again. Keep doing it until he gets down on his knees and polishes your boots with the oil on his nose.
Somebody wins and somebody loses. That's why you dont have a war until its gets that bad and you cant share air with the bastid.
There is NO future in sharing air with a blood enemy. You dont play at war. There is no half-war.
Life or Death means precisely that. NEVER negotiate with Amalek.
You go in like a man already dead. That's how you win. Train your men to fight like the Dead.
Once you go in, you are never coming out again.
Every time you kill.... you kill yourself. You are never coming back. The Mark of Cain isnt a Mark...its once you go in you have to live with it. That's the price of winning a war.
Somebody wins and somebody loses is YOU. There is no half-way War. You dont just touch it with your little pinky. You will drink it and eat it. This is my Body and Soul, given for you.
That's what declaring War means. You are never going back...you will never come back. Put the uniform on..you put on your own death. You choose the Mark. Its your own flesh...all of you. The weapon fits your hand exactly.
You want to beat the Hassans and the Abdullahs? You go straight into it and take the bullet and you keep firing even if you go down. You shoot him and keep shooting even if you go down. You GET the bastard.
You bite death and chew.
#3
This whole M.E. peace thing would be so much simpler if the Juice would just throw themselves into the Mediterranean. Then the Arabs could go back to squabbling amongst themselves and throwing the Paleostinians out of whatever country they are destined to get thrown out of next.
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