THE EAGERNESS TO DEAL WITH THE MOST VILE AND REPRESSIVE REGIME IN THE REGION...:

Hints of Progress Toward a Deal on the Golan Heights (ISABEL KERSHNER, 4/23/08, NY Times)

Peace overtures between Israel and Syria moved up a gear on Wednesday when a Syrian cabinet minister said that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel had sent a message to President Bashar al-Assad to the effect that Israel would be willing to withdraw from all the Golan Heights in return for peace with Syria.

The Syrian expatriate affairs minister, Buthaina Shaaban, told Al Jazeera television that “Olmert is ready for peace with Syria on the grounds of international conditions; on the grounds of the return of the Golan Heights in full to Syria.” She said that the message had been conveyed by Turkey.

...tends to undercut their case for refusing to deal with Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas.

Posted by Orrin Judd at April 23, 2008 7:04 PM