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Bashar al Assad interview<\/strong> with BBC’s John Simpson tonight – Monday 9.10.06 at 07.30pm GMT BBC World or 11.30pm GMT BBC News 24<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

The SANA version<\/a> (abridged)<\/font>
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\n<\/font><\/strong>Syria is prepared to hold talks with Israel and wants a peaceful solution to the Middle East conflict, President Bashar al-Assad has said.<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

In an interview with the BBC’s John Simpson, President Assad said Syria and Israel could live side-by-side in peace accepting each other’s existence.<\/font><\/p>\n

However, he said “we do not know whether this [Israeli] government is strong enough to move towards peace”.<\/font><\/p>\n

He also said support from Washington was integral to any peace deal.<\/font><\/p>\n

The current US administration has said Syria is a member of what it has called an axis of evil. Washington has also accused Syria of backing<\/font><\/p>\n

Hezbollah in Lebanon, an organisation it views as a terrorist group.<\/font><\/p>\n

Following the repercussions of the US-led invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, Mr Assad said officials in the West had accused Syria of supporting terrorism to try to make it “a scapegoat” and to “absolve themselves from any responsibility”.<\/font><\/p>\n

The Syrian leader condemned attacks in Iraq against “civilians and innocents” but said that “resistance is the right of the people”.<\/font><\/p>\n

“The insurgency is against the law – we don’t support it. Resistance we adopt as a concept, that does not mean we support it with money or armaments,” President Assad said.<\/font><\/p>\n

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MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies<\/a><\/strong><\/em> has come out today with a special issue on the Lebanon war.\u00a0<\/font><\/font>\u00a0
\n<\/font><\/font>For full and free access<\/a>:
\n<\/font><\/font>
\n<\/font><\/font>GUEST EDITORS: <\/font><\/font>Reinoud Leenders, <\/font><\/font>Amal Ghazal, <\/font><\/font>Jens Hanssen
\n<\/font><\/font>\u00a0
\n<\/font><\/font>INTRODUCTION 6
\n<\/font><\/font>\u00a0
\n<\/font><\/font>ISRAEL ‘S 2006 W R ON LEBANON:
\n<\/font><\/font>REFLECTIONS ON THE INTERNATIONAL LAW OF FORCE
\n<\/font><\/font>Karim Makdisi 9
\n<\/font><\/font>\u00a0
\n<\/font><\/font>WILL WE WIN?
\n<\/font><\/font>CONVERGENCE AND ISRAEL’S LATEST LEBANON WAR
\n<\/font><\/font>Robert Blecher 27
\n<\/font><\/font>\u00a0
\n<\/font><\/font>HOW THE REBEL REGAINED HIS CAUSE
\n<\/font><\/font>HIZBULLAH & THE SIXTH ARAB-ISRAELI WAR
\n<\/font><\/font>Reinoud Leenders 38
\n<\/font><\/font>\u00a0
\n<\/font><\/font>THE REFUGEES WHO GIVE REFUGE
\n<\/font><\/font>Laleh Khalili 57
\n<\/font><\/font>\u00a0
\n<\/font><\/font>HIZBULLAH AND THE IDF:
\n<\/font><\/font>ACCEPTING NEW REALITIES ALONG THE BLUE LINE
\n<\/font><\/font>Nicholas Blanford 68
\n<\/font><\/font>\u00a0
\n<\/font><\/font>THE PEACEKEEPING CHALLENGE IN LEBANON
\n<\/font><\/font>Augustus Richard Norton 76
\n<\/font><\/font>\u00a0
\n<\/font><\/font>POLITICS AND BUSINESS, STATE AND CITIZENRY:
\n<\/font><\/font>PRELIMINARY THOUGHTS ON THE RESPONSE TO
\n<\/font><\/font>LEBANON’S HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
\n<\/font><\/font>Jim Quilty 80
\n<\/font><\/font>\u00a0
\n<\/font><\/font>THE OUTLOOK FOR ECONOMIC RECONSTRUCTION IN
\n<\/font><\/font>LEBANON AFTER THE 2006 WAR
\n<\/font><\/font>Bassam Fattouh and Joachim Kolb 96
\n<\/font><\/font>\u00a0
\n<\/font><\/font>DECONSTRUCTING A “HIZBULLAH STRONGHOLD ”
\n<\/font><\/font>Lara Deeb 115
\n<\/font><\/font>\u00a0
\n<\/font><\/font>MEDIA IS THE CONTINUATION OF WAR WITH OTHER
\n<\/font><\/font>MEANS: THE NEW YORK T IM E S. C O V E R A G E O F T HE
\n<\/font><\/font>ISRAELI WAR ON LEBANON
\n<\/font><\/font>Yasser Munif 126
\n<\/font><\/font>\u00a0
\n<\/font><\/font>GREAT EXPECTATIONS, LIMITED MEANS:
\n<\/font><\/font>FRANCE AND THE 2006 ISRAELI-LEBANESE WAR
\n<\/font><\/font>Elizabeth Picard 141
\n<\/font><\/font>\u00a0
\n<\/font><\/font>ISRAEL IN LEBANON:
\n<\/font><\/font>THE FOREIGN POLICY LOGICS OF JEWISH STATEHOOD
\n<\/font><\/font>Virginia Tilley 152
\n<\/font><\/font>\u00a0
\n<\/font><\/font>SIZE DOES NOT MATTER:
\n<\/font><\/font>THE SHEBAA FARMS IN HISTORY AND CONTEMPORARY
\n<\/font><\/font>POLITICS
\n<\/font><\/font>Asher Kaufman 163
\n<\/font><\/font>\u00a0
\n<\/font><\/font>EXPORTING DEATH AS DEMOCRACY:
\n<\/font><\/font>AN ESSAY ON U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IN LEBANON
\n<\/font><\/font>Irene Gendzier 177
\n<\/font><\/font>\u00a0
\n<\/font><\/font>REVIEWS
\n<\/font><\/font>\u00a0
\n<\/font><\/font>REVIEW ESSAYS
\n<\/font><\/font>\u00a0
\n<\/font><\/font>L ebanon.s P olitical E conom y: A fter S yria, an E conom ic T a.if?
\n<\/font><\/font>Reviewed by Reinoud Leenders 188
\n<\/font><\/font>\u00a0
\n<\/font><\/font>Hizbullah: Iranian Surrogate or Independent Actor?
\n<\/font><\/font>Reviewed by Rola el-Husseini 204
\n<\/font><\/font>\u00a0
\n<\/font><\/font>Making Sense of Al Qaeda
\n<\/font><\/font>Review Essay by John A. McCurdy 210
\n<\/font><\/font>\u00a0
\n<\/font><\/font>BOOK REVIEWS
\n<\/font><\/font>\u00a0
\n<\/font><\/font>David Cook
\n<\/font><\/font>Understanding Jihad
\n<\/font><\/font>Reviewed by Amir Asmar 220
\n<\/font><\/font>\u00a0
\n<\/font><\/font>Fawaz A. Gerges
\n<\/font><\/font>The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global
\n<\/font><\/font>Reviewed by Mohamed Yousry 223
\n<\/font><\/font>http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/cis\/www\/mitejmes\/
\n<\/font><\/font>\u00a0
\n<\/font><\/font>Paul A. Silverstein
\n<\/font><\/font>Algeria in France. Transpolitics, Race, and Nation
\n<\/font><\/font>Reviewed by Margaret A. Majumdar 225
\n<\/font><\/font>\u00a0
\n<\/font><\/font>Lisa Pollard
\n<\/font><\/font>Nurturing the Nation: The Family Politics of Modernizing, Colonizing and
\n<\/font><\/font>Liberating Egypt, 1805-1923
\n<\/font><\/font>Reviewed by Omnia El Shakry 227<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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