Word: assad
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...pursue peace for the sake of peace alone. The current peace negotiations between Syria and Israel in Shepherdstown, W. Va., are no exception. In fact, reasons abound for both countries not to seek peace with one another. Confrontation with Israel has been the linchpin of Hafez el-Assad's authoritarian regime. Ending the state of war with Israel will deprive Assad of the very prop that legitimates his non-democratic rule. For Israel, peace with Syria means relinquishing the Golan Heights, a strategically vital buffer zone that saved the country during the 1973 War. As a former army chief...
...lines is only a few square miles, but the location of those square miles alongside Israel?s primary source of drinking water makes it a patch of real estate that Prime Minister Ehud Barak won?t easily concede. Then again, both sides recognize that the twilight of President Hafez Assad?s reign may be their last opportunity for some time to close a deal...