The Soft-Touch Statescraft of Bashar Assad
September 4th, 2008 by Jason
Syrian President Bashar Assad spoke today at a summit in Damascus with the leaders of France, Turkey, and Qatar to discuss Middle East peace. Assad said that he has handed a proposal for peace with Israel to Turkish mediators. No word yet on what it entails.
Michael Young wades deep into the thicket of Syrian-French-Israeli diplomacy in the Daily Star today. He accuses French President Nicolas Sarkozy of “ostentation and shallowness” in his quest for a share of Arab-Israeli peacemaking glory. Sarkozy rather fatuously declared that Middle East peace “went through France and Syria”, perhaps forgetting what Assad’s idea of Middle East peace looks like.
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September 5th, 2008 at 9:19 am
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