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Assad says 'ready to cooperate' in Turkish Israel-Syria peace bid
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Netanyahu: PM promised Golan to Syria before talks ever began Opposition leader and Chairman of the Likud Party Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday criticized the reported ongoing diplomacy between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Syrian President Bashar Assad via Turkey. (article 6)
" The meeting focused on ways to activate a just and comprehensive peace and the president praised Turkey for the efforts in this regard the state news agency said. (article 2)
Syrian officials said that the meeting focused on attempts by Turkey to help Syria and Israel relaunch negotiations that collapsed in 2000 over the scope of a proposed Israeli withdrawal from the Golan heights, a water-rich plateau overlooking Damascus. (article 2)
From the end of World War I through the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the area in reference was under British control. (article 7)
Speaking to reporters at a press conference in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik after meeting with President Hosni Mubarak, Abbas also said a peace agreement between Israel and Syria would not harm Palestinian negotiations with Israel. (article 1)
Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan has met Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, as part of efforts to secure a peace deal between Syria and Israel. (article 3)
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Syria, Israel, Israeli, Hamas, peace |
Source articles
- /hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=978301 (haaretz.com, 04/27/2008, 431 words)
- Assad says 'ready to cooperate' in Turkish Israel-Syria peace bid (haaretz.com, 04/27/2008, 695 words)
- Israel focus for Erdogan in Syria (BBC News, 04/26/2008, 415 words)
- Timeline: Israel and Syria (ft.com, 04/25/2008, 199 words)
- /hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=978337 (haaretz.com, 04/27/2008, 586 words)
- /hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=978343 (haaretz.com, 04/27/2008, 441 words)
- New York Times (nytimes.com, 04/27/2008, 140 words)
- Attack briefings boost for Israel’s deterrence (ft.com, 04/25/2008, 454 words)
- Elections 2003 (haaretz.com, 04/28/2008, 1757 words)
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