Report: French envoy to meet with Assad on renewal of Israel-Syria peace talks

syrians, lebanese, jordanians , eygptians, and the rest of these arab countries, that peace is better for them? Insallah ya ache

The Golan WAS Syrian, before they lost it in a war THEY STARTED. When you lose land in a war, you don't get to demand it back like a spoiled child.... BTW, the Jews are the only people on Earth so hated by so many (like you) and so outnumbered by everyone, so having a little sliver of land to fall back to is not unreasonable, under the circumstances. Now go away and pick on the Sudanese or North Koreans for a change.

Well if Israel is the only country in the world declaring itself on behalf of Jews......, that's because it so happens that the Jews are the only people to have been spread out worldwide for so long due to numerous genocides and progroms....thanks to people like CJ who seem to wish that the Jews should not be reunited in their ancestral land.

If you think any of this is feasible, you are wrong. The Sinai beduin did not want to be part of Israel. The Golani Druze don't much care for their forebears in Syria. Plus, Jews are in the majority in the Golan.

That would be a hard enough job for any leader, and I doubt Obama is up to it.

I hope Israel never gives back something that the IDF gave of their own blood for. Besides if the golan was given back how long do you think it be before its a iranian substation, complete with snipers?

TRUTH and thats not a joke.

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Read the Peace Agreement. ... You have read it no? [ http://wp.me/PDB7k-Q#Egypt-Sinai ] Want peace, WITHDRAW from other folk's SOVEREIGN territories. Want peace with the people of the non-state entity of Palestine? WITHDRAW to your own Sovereign territories or LEGALLY annex and make them citizens. LEGAL annexation requires the non-state entity to AGREE. It's bilateral.

when HELL FREEZES OVER !!!

Israel and Syria are in de-jure state of war and occupying the enemy's territory during wars is absolutely 100% legal and legitimate. The withdrawal from the territories occupied during a war and the final borders are part of the peace agreement between the enemies, they are not supposed to precede it. It's like expecting the Allies to withdraw from Germany in 1945 before it surrendered and capitulated - that's plain silly.

Enough with INternational Law on this. Syria attacked Israel multiple times and LOST... I dont think international law has anything about attacking..lol. However, if you attack and you lose... guess what you lose! Syria attacked and Israel won that war and those battles. Sorry.

What happened before Israel took the Golan? What was the reason to war then? 2-3 wars to be precise. When you use the high ground to shell civilian populations you lose your right to baawww when you lose that area.

but who told you that israel truely is interesed in peace? israel seems out of law state that only respect the languege of Military Power.

The same applies to the West Bank...

If the time comes and Israel will withdraw from the golan with all the arrangments are the Syrian ready for full diplomatic relation, open borders and full peace? I have some feeling they are not.

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if you attack and you lose... Any territory taken for strategic position in war must be either legally annexed or withdrawn from. The other alternative is to occupy. Israel occupies. If it was not sovereign to Israel before a war, it ain't sovereign to Israel after, unless it is legally annexed . Bilaterally. That has been the law since at least 1945.

To "occupy" a territory is not a crime by itself (unless the act of occupation was unprovoked). The Israeli act of illegality with respect to the Golan was the act of "annexation" (in 1981, under M. Begin). Israel will ultimately have to withdraw from the Golan, but this will follow some peace agreement, as was done with Egypt.

The laws of war and International Law as exemplified by the UN charter (which signatories such as Israel must abide by) forbid much more than Begin's annexation Logios. Israel has committed outright war crimes in population transfer (of its people into the areas occupied), refusal to allow indigenous populations to return and removing them from their villages, destroying many/most villages and infrastructure, imposing Israeli civil law and so on and so forth. As CJ has said many times, International law makes no distinction between who started and who won/lost a war since 1945. The ONLY exception is a war to reclaim recognised sovereign territory from an occupier. If Israel wishes to annex this territory it must do so legally i.e. bilaterally. Also, if there is one fact that can be disputed here its who actually started the war. Moshe Dyan has openly admitted Israel's purposeful provocations along the border, egging the Syrians into responding. This war was started because Israel wanted a war (nothing unusual there). Israel needs to withdraw behind the borders it recognised in its Declaration of Independence (based on UN res 181) and start acting like a responsible democracy and the damn, stupid US needs to stop providing political and economic cover for Israel's shopping list of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Period.

if israel´s agents in stupid America give permission.

Please stop making a confusion between Israel and Judaism. Millions of Jews live happily in Europe and have nothing to do whatsoever with what the Israeli government decides.

In the case of Jews, the Jewish people, the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, they are a Nation as nations went in those days. Then , thru' their faith/religion Judaism they maintained their roots to Jerusalem/Israel the Nation of the Jews. So in the case of the Jewish people their home is Israel. In modern times and nationalities, they can be nationals of and good citizens of other countries. Many groups of people nowadays have 2 or even more nationalities and can be loyal to both or all. As for the European Jews living happily there, may that continue to be so . However whether anybody likes it or not, whatever the Israeli government does , it affects all Jews worldwide. That's the way I see it, rightly or wrongly.

as far as its right wing fanatics give the orders.

where did you learn geography???.

as well as terror groups acting against Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and the PA. Their only friends in the region are Iran and Turkey, and Turkey is only a recent friend; not too long ago, Syria's sponsorship of the terrorist PKK caused Turkey to threaten to invade Syria, at which point Syria finally gave in and stopped sponsoring that group. (Erdogan has a short memory) There's an undeclared war - Syria against pretty much anyone who wants calm and peace. But Syria plainly does not make peace until it is threatened with active warfare. So the French initiative is nonsense and will simply empower these thugs.

Syria and israel are at war. and this war will end when israel returns what was stolen from Syria.

Syria declared war and attacked Israel before Israel conquered the Golan Heights in a defensive war against Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq....

Even stupid America fears israel as far as its agents dictate its foreign policy and economy.

Arab Leaders and deserves much more respect for his patience and attenuating his typical Arabian wisdom, so as not insult his guests etc. His impeccable dresscode is a reflection of mind-set and high cultural background. Hatred for and despising his fellow human beings does not fit in his religious moral values. Peace and trade with Israel will eventually be achieved when he sees fit. Shalom & Salaam.

I'd say ask Rafiq Hariri, but unfortunately that's no longer possible.

He was never elected by the Syrian people . Syria is not a bussiness where a father passes on the business to his son. Syria is a country owned by the man in the street. Bashar Assad is a dictator who will rule Syria for the next 30 years.

It seems to me you are on Assad's payroll as a PR adviser. You turn a blind eye to Syria's long abysmal human rights record, sponsoring terrorists like Hizbollah and Hamas, and harassing and threatening its neighbours, including even fellow Arab state Lebanon, which it occupied and economically plundered for nearly three decades.. These are all the works of this impeccably dressed and cultured, soft- spoken and polite man. A formal dresscode and cultural interest are no more than a poor disguise for this brutal and vicious ruler that will stop at nothing to achieve his political goals. You are either part of the Assad clique or a pitiful ignoramus.

Syria needs people like you ! Freemen who are willing to speak their mind, open and honest. For we live but a short time on Gods Earth. To love life and do what is just and in our nature, ... that is work and take care of a new generation in PEACE. We are Free-men and women. We are part of a greater Spirit ... one with all creation. We do not have to justify ourselves to each other if we are natural. We do not need books of law if we are honorable. If we love our neighbor we will forgive them their mistakes, ... who is perfect ?? As you say Mr. Assad is cultured, soft-spoken and polite, for he is civilized and he will NOT send the needy away ... for we are all in need of something. We are all brothers and sisters ... we work and walk the earth hoping for God's blessings. Salaam & Shalom !