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...spokesman Glyn Davies announced Wednesday that the U.S. will act as a go-between and send an Israeli offer of peace talks without preconditions to the Syrian government. Davies said the U.S. was trying to facilitate contacts between the two sides so that negotiations over the status of the Golan Heights can resume. "Netanyahu is trying to make sure he's not blamed because the talks are stalled," says TIME's Johanna McGeary. "Although he has said that everything could be on the table with Syria, he has also made it pretty clear that although he might talk about...
...spokesman Glyn Davies announced Wednesday that the U.S. will act as a go-between and send an Israeli offer of peace talks without preconditions to the Syrian government. Davies said the U.S. was trying to facilitate contacts between the two sides so that negotiations over the status of the Golan Heights can resume. "Netanyahu is trying to make sure he's not blamed because the talks are stalled," says TIME's Johanna McGeary. "Although he has said that everything could be on the table with Syria, he has also made it pretty clear that although he might talk about...
...spokesman Glyn Davies announced Wednesday that the U.S. will act as a go-between and send an Israeli offer of peace talks without preconditions to the Syrian government. Davies said the U.S. was trying to facilitate contacts between the two sides so that negotiations over the status of the Golan Heights can resume. "Netanyahu is trying to make sure he's not blamed because the talks are stalled," says TIME's Johanna McGeary. "Although he has said that everything could be on the table with Syria, he has also made it pretty clear that although he might talk about...
...offer to restart stalled peace negotiations with Syria was met with a decidedly low-key response from the Syrian government. On a trip to Jordan Monday, Netanyahu had proposed peace talks on all outstanding matters, but did not retract any of his many earlier statements that Israel required the Golan Heights for its security and would not return the land to Syria. Although Syria's government has not officially rejected the offer, an editorial in Tuesday's edition of Tishrin called the offer "honey-coated" but not serious. "Although Tishrin speaks for the Syrian government, its rejection is not exactly...
...peace," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was ready for frank peace talks with Syria. Netanyahu, fresh from a visit Monday with Jordan's King Hussein, said Israel was willing to hold negotiations "on all outstanding matters." That opens the way for discussion about the status of the Golan Heights, captured from Syria during the 1967 Mideast War. Other outstanding matters include Israel's occupation of a southern strip of Lebanon and continued Hamas attacks on Israel from within Lebanon, which is controlled by Syria. Hussein is well-poised to play a central role in mediating an Israeli-Syrian...