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...March 26, Syrian President Hafez al-Assad met with President Clinton in Geneva in a failed summit on peace in the Middle East. The Syrian leader has no plans to hold such a meeting with Israeli premier Ehud Barak. This diplomatic picture speaks a thousand words of Syrian intentions...
...Israel-Syria peace deal is now unlikely to come on Bill Clinton's watch, perhaps not even on President Hafez Assad's. President Clinton left empty-handed from a Geneva encounter with the Syrian leader Sunday, in which he'd hoped he could jump-start a new round of Israel-Syria talks. The President, like many who've tried before, found that the disagreement over the extent of Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights remains too fundamental to allow any movement. And while the two neighbors have for 26 years managed to avoid a war despite the absence of such...
...move toward reconciliation. Israel is willing to discuss the withdrawal from the Golan Heights, taken from Syria in 1967, and is now leaving the area of Lebanon bordering Syria; it is Syria's turn to make concessions for peace. Yesterday's announcement of a shake-up within the Syrian government--President Hafez Assad fired his entire Cabinet--will hopefully be a step toward a more conciliatory Syrian attitude. In economic terms and within the diplomatic community, it seems Syria may not have a choice: it, like Jordan, needs ties to Israel's economy and technology, and peace may just...
Your move, Mr. Assad. Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak threw down the gauntlet to his Syrian counterpart Sunday, in the form of a cabinet decision to withdraw from south Lebanon by July irrespective of the state of peace negotiations with Syria. And that leaves the Syrian president no easy response on the strategic chessboard of the Mideast's most troubled relationship. "The last thing the Syrians want is a unilateral Israeli withdrawal in Lebanon," says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod, "because that would deprive them of one of their most important cards in negotiations with Israel - Syria...
...parliamentary setback, however, simply confirmed the waning of the optimism over peace prospects that followed Barak's election. "Barak came in promising peace with the Syrians, but that's broken down," says Beyer. "He promised to produce a final agreement with the Palestinians, but instead those talks are absolutely frozen." And his promise of unilateral withdrawal from Lebanon by July looks more than shaky as Hezbollah guerrillas fight on unrelentingly. The consequence of breakdowns on the Syrian and Palestinian front, and Israel's bombing of Lebanon in response to Hezbollah attacks, has seen Barak's store of goodwill among...