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ANALYSIS \/ At Paris summit, Assad has all the answers to Mideast conflict<\/a> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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By Zvi Bar'el<\/a> and Barak Ravid<\/a>, Haaretz, 14\/07\/2008 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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…….A few hundred meters away, a new star was born: Assad. He was the man with all the answers to regional conflicts. He solved the Lebanese conflict at the last minute; Hamas and Islamic Jihad are his guests and therefore are subservient to the well-known rules of hospitality. In the peace process with Israel he is considered the good guy. <\/p>\n

France had fully renewed relations with Assad, and Washington watched with frustration how its policy of sanctions against Syria was taking a nosedive. <\/p>\n

No wonder Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem was very happy, even though he looked drawn and pale. Every half hour he came down the elevator with one high-level visitor to Assad, and took another one up. Cypriot President Demetris Christofias was there, and United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon disappeared into Assad's room and came out smiling embarrassedly a while later. <\/p>\n

"Did you see Terje Larsen's face?" a member of the Syrian delegation asked a Haaretz reporter. "When he went in it was white and when he came out it was red. He must have gotten an earful from Assad." <\/p>\n

Terje Roed-Larsen, responsible for implementing UN Resolution 1559 calling on Syria to withdraw from Lebanon, said some angry things about the peace process with Assad, which he saw as giving in to terror. Larsen is frustrated but his boss is happy. <\/p>\n

Then came Assad's press conference. Things went fine in the elevator. The Syrian security detail was not quite together and allowed an Israeli reporter to reach the floor where the briefing was taking place. The cream of the Lebanese and Syrian press corps was wandering around waiting for Assad. No one fled when they heard the words "Israeli journalist." <\/p>\n

A few years ago Syrian journalists would clam up or leave; this time, it was as if peace had already broken out. But the Syrian security men had not heard about it. <\/p>\n

A short time later one of them "with all due respect" asked the reporter to leave. "This is only for Syrian journalists," he said. To the retort that Lebanese journalists were present, he responded: "Syria and Lebanon are one country." <\/p>\n

He had apparently not heard Assad's announcement that a Syrian embassy was to open in Lebanon. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Hussein Shariatmadari,<\/strong> an advisor to Iran's supreme leader and editor-in-chief of Kayhan, warns Syria of the negative impact 'peace' will have on relations with Tehran….  He said that Iran does not recognize the Jewish State and does not look favorably on a Muslim country like Syria or Turkey carrying out negotiation with it….<\/p>\n

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Syria basks in diplomatic breakthrough<\/a>
By Sami Moubayed <\/p>\n

DAMASCUS – "Our telephone number is 202-456-1414. When you are serious about peace, call us." These were the words of former United States secretary of state James Baker in June 1990 when he suspended dialogue with Yasser Arafat, claiming the Palestine Liberation Organization was still committed to armed war with Israel and thereby not interested in peace. …..<\/p>\n

…From France's perspective<\/strong>, in the past two months the following has been achieved: <\/p>\n

  • The election of a president for Lebanon, after a vacuum that had existed since November 2007. France – the former colonial power in Lebanon – remains very much committed to Lebanon and was sincerely worried about Lebanese affairs, unlike the Americans, who used Lebanon for political reasons to achieve other ends (like Iraq) since 2005. <\/li>\n
  • French credibility was restored in the eyes of ordinary Lebanese – even the Shi'ites among them – thanks to Sarkozy's even-handed policy of standing at arm's length from all parties and talking with everyone – Hezbollah included. <\/li>\n
  • The French balance in the entire Middle East was restored after things became too personal in 2005-2007, due to Chirac's links with the Hariri family. France now returns to Syria, both politically, culturally and economically. One immediate result of the rapprochement is a contract for a French firm to build two cement factories in Syria, worth US$1.2 billion. Another is serious talk about granting a French firm the right to construct a metro in Damascus. [Landis adds<\/strong>: France is also discussing supplying Air Syria with Airbus planes to replace the antiquated Boeing jets for which Syria is unable to purchase spare parts because of sanctions.]<\/li>\n

    From the Syrian perspective<\/strong>, the following are important: <\/p>\n

    Syria sidelined all of the anti-Syrian candidates running for the presidency and secured the election of Michel Suleiman, a man who is a friend of both Damascus and Hezbollah. It got its way when saying that it would not allow an anti-Syrian statesman to become the new master of the Baabda presidential palace. Suleiman is a staunch supporter of resisting Israel and will not tolerate any force being used to disarm Hezbollah. He is also a non-sectarian figure who believes in excellent relations with Syria and is on the payroll of neither the Americans nor the Saudis. <\/p>\n

  • Greater representation has been given to the Hezbollah-led opposition in the 30-seat cabinet created by Siniora this weekend. They received 11 seats – thereby granting them veto power to obstruct any anti-Hezbollah legislation pushed for by the anti-Syrian March 14 coalition of political parties. Hezbollah got three portfolios – but only one will be occupied by an actual Hezbollah member – Labor Minister Mohammad Fneish. <\/li>\n
  • Syria patched up with France without having to change a single policy it had been preaching since 2005. Nor did the Syrians have to make any concession with regard to Lebanon, such as cuddling up to Siniora or March 14, or working against Hezbollah's interests, or abandoning Iran. …<\/li>\n

    Spotlight on Israel and Syria at Paris summit<\/a>
    By Tony Barber in Paris for Financial Times
    Published: July 14 2008 03:00 | Last updated: July 14 2008 03:00<\/p>\n

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    The European Union and its Mediterranean neighbours launched a new platform for their relationship yesterday at a summit boosted by a promise from Lebanon and Syria to open embassies in each other's capital.<\/p>\n

    Leaders of more than 40 countries attended the inaugural session of the Union for the Mediterranean, a project conceived by Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, as a way to bridge differences between the EU and the states of north Africa and the Middle East.<\/p>\n

    As the ceremonies got under way at the majestic Grand Palais in Paris, the spotlight fell on Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister, and Bashar al-Assad, Syria's president, whose countries, bitter enemies since 1948, have held three rounds of indirect talks since March with Turkey as mediator.<\/p>\n

    It was the first time an Israeli and a Syrian leader had been seated in the same room, but the new union's plenary session was carefully choreographed so that Mr Assad and Mr Olmert neither exchanged words nor shook hands.<\/p>\n

    Moreover, Mr Assad made it plain that he saw no prospect of direct peace talks with Israeli leaders at least until George W. Bush, the US president, left office. He told French television after the summit that it would take up to two years to reach a Syrian-Israeli peace deal….<\/p>\n

    "We can say that Lebanon has moved from being a zone of turbulence, a war zone, to a more pacified zone where the Lebanese, and only the Lebanese, have the right to determine their own future," Mr Assad said after talks with Michel Suleiman, Lebanon's president….<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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