Syrian Ambassd. speaks of Syria's peace initative; Shuns acknowledging Israeli press

[Spiffor]

I really have nothing to say on the issue, Eli.

There's an immense distrust between Syria and Israel, and it's obvious that any Israeli journalist will ask trap-questions to the diplomat. And the diplomat is likely to say a blunder, since this pseudo "peace initiative" isn't adressed to Israel, but at the west. Syria wants to look as a good boy, in the possible context of thawing relationships between the west and Syria/Iran.

Any blunder would show that Syria doesn't really intend to make significant compromises with Israel. Just like Israel isn't ready to make any compromise with Syria either.

[Az]

and it's obvious that any Israeli journalist will ask trap-questions to the diplomat.

yes, because our press is controlled by the government and all. A+

[Saras]

Originally posted by Heresson
Shivas

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[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by Az

and it's obvious that any Israeli journalist will ask trap-questions to the diplomat.

yes, because our press is controlled by the government and all. A+

No, but you hold together like glue - so much that some of you even copy avatars and sigs to prove that point.
You israelis really look all the same - Siro looks like Eli, you look like an Israeli politician, and then there's this other poster who looks like a war cr... - err, a former government chief of Israel.

Have a nice day.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Az
yes, because our press is controlled by the government and all. A+

Nope, because Syria and Israel had been hostile to each other for decades, and any Israeli journalist would be very curious about Syria's sincerity. Actually, a journalist's job would be to be inquisitive about it IMO.

[Sirotnikov]

Originally posted by Spiffor

Nope, because Syria and Israel had been hostile to each other for decades, and any Israeli journalist would be very curious about Syria's sincerity. Actually, a journalist's job would be to be inquisitive about it IMO.

So assuming there is any sincerity, the Ambassador would have been able to stand his ground, would he not?

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Sirotnikov
So assuming there is any sincerity, the Ambassador would have been able to stand his ground, would he not?

You assume too much

[Eli]

Hi rah,

I'm too addicted to Apolyton, it ruins my life, please permanently ban me.

Yours, Sirotnikov.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Eli
Hi rah,

I'm too addicted to Apolyton, it ruins my life, please permanently ban me.

Yours, Sirotnikov.

Hey, how did you manage to change your civgroup membership icons, Siro?

[Heresson]

Originally posted by Eli
Hi rah,

I'm too addicted to Apolyton, it ruins my life, please permanently ban me.

[Ned]

Originally posted by Heresson
Syria

H, I always thought you were a "good" person. How can you support a nation so steeped in racism, fascism and hatred?

[Heresson]

what racism? what fascism? hatred, perhaps a bit, true, but not without a reason.
Go Syria!

Down with zionizm!

Go Bashshar, ya habibi!

Down with Israel!

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Heresson
what racism? what fascism? hatred, perhaps a bit, true, but not without a reason.

"The Ba’thist must fill his heart with the hatred of all those who hold opposite views… The other view does not exist by itself. It resides in persons, who must perish, so that it too, may perish… When we are cruel to others, we know that our cruelty is aimed at bringing them back to their true selves, of which they are ignorant. Their potential will, which has not been clarified yet, is with us, even when their swords are drawn against us!’"

‘The philosophies and the teachings that come from the West invade the Arab mind and steal his loyalty before they rob him of his land and skies. We want a unified nationalist programme of education that derives it roots from the particularities of the Arab nation, the spirit of its past and the needs of its future. It should preserve loyalty to the Arab homeland and the Arab cause without paying attention to any other homeland or cause.’


‘So if a group of educated, active and moral youths were to unite powerfully, according to a fierce discipline, and in accordance with a hierarchy of grades, it would prove sufficient to guarantee their influence over the people. The holiness they would bestow upon their leader would, in reality, be a sanctification of the ideas which they supported and wished to spread.’


Michel Aflaq, founder, Syrian Baath Party.

[Heresson]

Aflaq has little to do with contemporary Ba'ath, my dear.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Ben Aflaq used ot be in the bathist party, get outta town.... You're joking...

I knew Hollywood was leftist and Anti-Iraq and all but really....