{"id":2601,"date":"2009-04-03T06:47:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T06:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/?p=2601"},"modified":"2009-04-03T06:47:59","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T06:47:59","slug":"stocks-prices-are-up-peace-is-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joshualandis.com\/blog\/stocks-prices-are-up-peace-is-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Stocks Prices are Up – Peace is Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Damascus Stock Exchange traded shares worth over half a million SYP today for the first time. There were eight trades of 667 Shares valued at SYP 578,139 OR $12,500. 3 OF THE 4 companies traded rose by the limit of 2%.<\/p>\n

Damascus Journal: Syria Finds Right Ingredients to Start a Stock Market From Scratch<\/a>
\nBy ROBERT F. WORTH in NYTimes<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a baby that will grow,\u201d said Abdullah Dardari…. Some analysts have even suggested that Syria\u2019s economic challenges will force it to make such a deal. But interviews with Syrian officials here make clear they do not see it that way.<\/p>\n

\u201cSyria, no matter how bad the economy, will not bargain,\u201d Mr. Dardari said. \u201cIn the 1980s we used to have to queue for Kleenex, but we did not bargain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Dardari and others say the American sanctions have had only a minor effect on Syria, which has little direct trade with the United States. Europe is far more significant, and Syria is eagerly pursuing a trade agreement with the European Union that is likely to be signed this year. Trade with Turkey \u2014 perhaps Syria\u2019s closest ally \u2014 is also growing, to almost $2 billion in 2008 from less than $500 million in 2004.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Avigdor

Avigdor Lieberman <\/p><\/div>\n

Israeli Minister Dismisses Peace Effort<\/a><\/p>\n

Assad: ‘Through war or peace we’ll free Golan’<\/a>
\nBy BRENDA GAZZAR<\/p>\n

Syria offers Israel chance to avoid war, <\/a>PressTV<\/p>\n

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Israeli policies encourage \u201cresistance\u201d, which only ensures that the day will come when Syria will free the Golan Heights \u201cthrough peace or through war\u201d.<\/p>\n

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:13:35 GMT
\nSyrian President Bashar al-Assad says all Israeli governments have pursued hawkish policies only to give rise to the philosophy of resistance.<\/p>\n

In an interview with the al-Sharq newspaper on Thursday, Assad said there is enough evidence to assume that Tel Aviv will never seek peace.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll Israeli governments are the same: Ariel Sharon carried out a massacre in Palestine, and [Ehud] Barak aided the war in Gaza in that there is no difference between the right and the left in Israel,\u201d he explained. \u201cThis enemy does not want peace.\u201d<\/p>\n

Assad described how normal citizens have grown tired of the sixty years of Israeli efforts to grab more land and occupy other territories.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the war of Palestine (in 1948) to the occupation of the Golan (in the Six Day War in 1967) people are becoming more hostile towards Israel. There may come a generation that is unwilling to talk peace,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

His remarks are considered a reaction to a Thursday announcement by Israel\u2019s new foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman \u2014 who ruled out the possibility of Israel withdrawing from the Golan Heights.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no cabinet resolution regarding negotiations with Syria, and we have already said that we will not agree to withdraw from the Golan Heights,\u201d said Lieberman in an interview with Israeli daily Ha\u2019aretz.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhoever thinks that he will achieve something by way of concessions – no, he will only invite more pressure and more wars. If you want peace, prepare for war,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Israel captured the Golan Heights following the 1967 Six-Day War and annexed the Syrian territory in 1981.<\/p>\n

Under the auspices of Turkey, Israel and Syria last May launched peace talks aimed at reaching a comprehensive peace agreement.<\/p>\n

Negotiations reached a stalemate in September after the resignation of former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert.<\/p>\n

Syria then withdrew from the talks in protest at the latest Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip \u2014 in late December 2008 and January 2009 \u2014 where at least 1,330 Palestinians lost their lives to the three-week carnage.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen a citizen loses hope – he will turn to the path of resistance, in one from or the other,\u201d Assad reacted to the new Israeli stance.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is the alternative?\u201d he asked. \u201cThe parallel route to the peace process is resistance. The Israeli will not come by his own will, so there is no alternative but for him to overcome fear.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no escaping the fact that the day will come when we will free the Golan, through peace or through war,\u201d he explained.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Observer<\/strong> gives us these pronouncements of Avi Lieberman<\/p>\n