Word: assads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, it is questionable whether the allied cause became more legitimate with Assad's approval. Assad is often described as a smarter, slier version of Saddam Hussein--with a record that includes the massacre of 20,000 of his own subjects in the city of Hama...
...Assad came to Jerusalem prepared to sign a peace treaty, would that change your position on the Golan...
...Assad. You don't represent Assad, and you are not Prime Minister of Israel. Unfortunately, the Syrian position as it was expressed by Foreign Minister Farouk Shara -- "total withdrawal for total peace" -- is not very clear. I don't know what total peace is. I do know what total withdrawal is. It is not limited to Syria and Israel. It also concerns the West Bank and the Gaza Strip...
...sovereign soil and prevent terrorist acts against Israel. Jordan cannot have a separate peace without solving the Palestinian problem. That makes the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and the Israeli-Syrian negotiations the two key questions. With Syria we have a partner, and a boss who makes decisions. To what extent Assad is ready for real peace is questionable; nobody discloses all his cards at the start of a negotiation. With the Palestinians it could be easier because there is no need now for territorial compromise on the part of Israel...
...President Assad has been acquiring Scud missiles. Do you think Syria could go to war against Israel...