Word: assad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know when they will begin, and we don't know when they will stop. There is no logic to it." In fact, the logic was to get the Israelis to negotiate seriously. The firing may also have been designed to reassure hawks back in Damascus that President Hafez Assad is truly determined to recover all Syrian land captured by Israel in two wars...
However veiled, telling pressures for continuing the Israeli-Syrian disengagement talks were there. Sadat is believed to be willing to take part in discussions if asked. Assad is undoubtedly aware that the Arab world's most prestigious leader is now breathing over his shoulder. Both the Palestinians and Jordan's King Hussein are also anxious to begin talks, once Syria's are completed. The Palestinians, however, received little hope of accommodation last week from Golda Meir. During the Knesset's debate on her government, Mrs. Meir warned: "Israel rejects the establishment of an additional separate Arab...
...think it is difficult. From my viewpoint, maybe because there has been a personal relationship and understanding between me and Dr. Kissinger, I think that Kissinger is doing his best and President [Hafez] Assad is doing his best...
...Would Assad accept demilitarization of the Golan Heights? This would be "a limitation of our sovereignty over our own land." As "a temporary measure," it might be acceptable if there were demilitarization of an equal zone on the Israeli side of the border...
...outside refugee camps in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan) has been the most intractable of the Middle East disputes. Syria has given strident sympathy to the "liberation" groups that would dismantle Israel as a Jewish state and establish a binational, secular Palestine, and Syria has seldom condemned terrorist actions. Asks Assad: "How could we persuade the dispossessed people they should be content to keep silence and not disturb the world...