Syria says stretching 'sincere hand' to U.S. for negotiations

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Syria on Tuesday said it was stretching a "sincere hand" to the United States and welcomed a possible change of Mideast policy.

Talks about taking a different course in Iraq that include engaging Iran and Syria to help bring peace to their war-torn neighbor have increased in Washington after last week's U.S. midterm elections resulted in Democrats gaining control of Congress.

U.S. President George W. Bush's chief of staff has said the White House would consider talking with Damascus and Tehran if a bipartisan commission studying how to deal with Iraq recommends it.

Syria is "stretching its sincere hand and is waiting for the reactions of the others as the ball is in their court," the government paper Tishrin said in an editorial.

Haaretz

[ECH1969]

1. So they will stop the suicide bombers coming into Iraq in exchange for what?

[Mudoria]

2. Maybe they'll stop the flow of weapons from

Iran to Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon too

[The Stranger]

3. If they did that, South Lebanon could be invaded/occupied again.

[ECH1969]

4. Like Israel really wants that godforsaken piece of land

[TheLastMohican]

5. If they don't why they occupy Golan Heights then?

It is Syrian territory anyways.
Someone should check the rabid Israel once in a while.

[ECH1969]

6. Any Syrian invasion of Israel as Syria did not too long ago

would use as its prime invasion point the Golan Heights. If you remember Assad's father used that the Golan Heights to attack Israel.

[The Stranger]

9. That doesn't explain why there are Israeli Settlements on the Syrian Golan Heights.

[Nihil]

7. You're right, Israel doesn't really want that piece of land ...

... just the water ... which they have now taken control of ...
and will now allow the people whose water they've stolen (by force
from a neighbouring sovereign country) to die ...

Gosh, why do people make such a fuss about it?

[The Stranger]

8. Actually, they did, for 19 years, until its unpopularity became too much.