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Syria, on the other hand, remains rather glum about the P.L.O.-Israeli deal. Although President Hafez Assad gave it distant approval, he is miffed at being made to look as if he is following Arafat in concluding an accord with Israel instead of playing the lead Arab role he prefers. He might also fear that the Israeli-P.L.O. agreement sets an uncomfortable precedent for his own negotiations to get the Golan Heights back from Israel. The Declaration of Principles foresees a gradual, step-by-step Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Assad seeks a total Israeli...
...while academe remained largely silent) for Salman Rushdie against the Iranian mullahs and their fatwa: "Those of us from the Moslem part of this world cannot accept the notion that democratic freedoms should be abrogated to protect Islam." He has inveighed against Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Hafez Assad in Syria. The "traditional discourse" of Arab nationalism, he wrote on the eve of the Gulf War, is "unresponsive, anomalous, even comic." The Arab media are "a disgrace," incapable of dealing with "life in the Arab world today with its terrible inequities, its self-inflicted wounds, its crushing mediocrity in science...
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...
...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...