The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
France-brokered talks between Syria and Israel are unlikely to provide an avenue for peace – neither is offering anything new A glimmer of hope in the moribund Middle East peace process surfaced in Paris recently when Nicolas Sarkozy separately hosted both the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad. Reports suggested that Netanyahu passed on a message...
Panarmenian (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Syrian president received Catholicos of All Armenians His Holiness Karekin II.
GrEaT sAtAn'S gIrLfRiEnD (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
As previously previewd by super savvy cats like Yosef Bodansky and Michael Baer , Persia's hot wicked desires to estab a kinda, sorta shia crescent from Iran to the Red and Med seas is tough to dispute, though a few still try . While the northern horn of the crescent seems well known - Moktada al Sadr's mulitple attempts with Mahdi Army (or JAM, or 'Special Groups" ) in Iraq to Dr General President...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Paris - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Friday in Paris that he did not want to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but he urged the Israeli leader to send negotiators to Turkey. If Mister Netanyahu is serious (about the peace...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
French President Nicolas Sarkozy tried to breathe life into the Middle East peace process Friday, hosting his Syrian counterpart just two days after talks with the Israeli prime minister. President Bashar al-Assad arrived at the Elysee Palace in Paris boasting of a new "climate of trust" in relations with France, but without having directly responded to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Paris - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has criticized US President Barack Obama in an interview Friday for what he termed his passivity in relaunching the Mideast peace process. The weak point (of the peace process) is the American sponsor, Assad...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Talks between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (photo) and French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris are expected to focus on the resumption of Israeli-Syrian talks in an attempt to kickstart the stalled Middle East peace process.
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
PARIS: Israel is ready to restart peace talks with Syria immediately and without conditions, a senior Israeli official said yesterday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Paris. Following talks in Paris with French President Nicolas Sarkozy, a senior Israeli travelling with the Prime Minister said: "Mr Sarkozy raised the issue of the Syrian track. "The Prime Minister said he is...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Beirut/Damascus - The presidents of Lebanon and Syria at a bilateral summit in Damascus on Thursday expressed satisfaction at the development of relations between their countries and vowed to pursue closer ties. President Bashar al-Assad vowed to pu...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
President Bashar al-Assad said on Wednesday that Syria was not setting conditions on making peace with Israel, but that it did have rights that must be restored, the official SANA news agency reported. "Resistance (to Israeli occupation) forms the core of our policy, both in the past and in the future. We do not put forward conditions on making peace, but we do have rights that we will not renounce,"...
Knight Talk: Politics and World Affairs (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Great demands are being made of our armed forces, and many of the forces in the UN. But we must be mindful that in winning this war on terror we do not turn a blind eye to Hezbollah. It shouldn’t be forgotten that Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah the leader of Hezbollah threatened Israel with open war two years ago and vowed that the end of the Jewish state was imminent. Nasrallah delivered his threat...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Brasilia - Israeli President Shimon Peres proposed Tuesday to resume talks with Syria that would be direct and unconditional as he addressed the two chambers of the Brazilian Congress. From here, I call upon President Bashar Al Assad: let us launc...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Brasilia - Israeli President Shimon Peres proposed Tuesday to resume talks with Syria that would be direct and unconditional as he addressed the two chambers of the Brazilian Congress. From here, I call upon President Bashar Al Assad: let us launc...
Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
At the 25th Economic Summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, held November 9 in Turkey, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad said that resistance is a national duty and that supporting it is a moral and religious obligation. He added that ... November 10, 2009, 11:26 am
Jewlicious (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
“Resistance of the occupation is a national duty and to support it is a moral and legal duty…and an honor which we are proud of,” said Syrian Prime Minister Bashar al-Assad at the Commercial Cooperation of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, currently being held in Istanbul. Though, resistance to whom, one might ask. After all, [...]
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