Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Syria: We'll grant no goodwill gestures to weak Olmert

Syrian President Bashar Assad senses that he is in a strong position and has no intention of relinquishing his preconditions in the indirect peace talks with Israel, Syrian officials told Haaretz. [snip]

"Assad will also not make, at this stage, any gesture of goodwill to the Israeli prime minister, not even a handshake, because there is no reason to grant such a gesture to a weak prime minister,''...
[there's {yet another} lesson to be learned from his remark re: what 'diplomacy' means to much of the non-western world]

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