According to the Jerusalem Post, "President Shimon Peres (of Israel) sent a message to Syria, offering to return the Golan Heights in exchange for a promise that Damascus would sever its ties with Iran and various terrorist groups, Syrian President Bashar Assad told the Lebanese As-Safir paper in an interview published Tuesday." Assad also said that he turned down the offer.
So what does this mean. According to the president of Syria, he refused an offer to get back all Syrian territory in Israeli hands in exchange for severing Syrian ties to Iran and terrorist groups, but the offer was rejected. The Israelis said taht they made no such offer, but still, Syria is making clear that they will not even partially settle their disputes with Israel for all the territory they have lost.
Next time some genius tells you that the Israelis are blocking the peace process in the Middle East, get out this quote and tell them about it. According to Syria's own president, Syria was offered everything it could possibly want other than the destruction of Israel and it said no. So who is blocking peace? Are the Israelis supposed to agree to dismantle their country and leave? Not even the crazies on the left would expect that (well not most of them anyway).
The wishful thinking and garbage from the state department that passes for intellectual thought on the middle east peace process these days is just plain nonsense. Unfortunately, we have another 2 and a half years of Obama and the Obamacrats to push the nonsense and do damage to the US and our allies in the meantime. Obama has to go!
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