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...still do today: He declared a commitment to peace in his enemy’s den. His 28-minute plane ride from a military base near the Suez Canal to Tel Aviv permanently changed fears into hopes and transformed hate into trust. As rumors persist of a reprisal of Syrian-Israeli peace negotiations, it is wise to recall the dramatic effect of Sadat’s visit on a possible Arab-Israel peace. To prove his sincerity about living side by side in peace with Israel, President Bashar Assad of Syria should follow in Sadat’s heroic footsteps...
...Sixty years of hostility, distrust, and paranoia must be overcome for Israel to trust Syrian intentions. Shortly after declaring independence in 1948, Israel was invaded by Syria along with five other Arab states. In the Six Day War of 1967, Israel conquered and holds to this day the strategic Golan Heights, once-Syrian territory that is a mere 35 miles from Damascus. A surprise Syrian-initiated war in 1973 on Yom Kippur, the holiest Jewish day of the year no less, added to the enmity. Though peace negotiations seemed close in the 1990s, Israeli-Palestinian accords soon gained primary importance...
...accord on Lebanon as well, but it was under Chirac that the French took a major role in helping the U.S. roll back Syrian influence there in the wake of the murder of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri...
MOHAMED ELBARADEI, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, criticizing Israel for September's pre-emptive attack on a rumored Syrian nuclear site...
...bomb first and then ask questions later, I think it undermines the system.' MOHAMED ELBARADEI, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, criticizing Israel for September's pre-emptive attack on a rumored Syrian nuclear site...