Assad: We Talk Peace When Bush Leaves White House

Posted on by Mustapha

The Syrian president confirms receiving the offer of “Golan for peace”, but says he can only think of it after the American President leaves office.

Syria responded the way it knows best: Buying time.

In an interview with the Qatari newspaper Al-Watan, Assad said the United States is the only country that can sponsor direct Syrian-Israel negotiations. But he said the Bush administration, which leaves office in January, “does not have the vision or will for the peace process.”

That will be a delicate dance that Syria will want to postpone as much as possible: Iran is keeping an eye, and it’s not happy.

0 Responses to Assad: We Talk Peace When Bush Leaves White House

  1. Haha. This confirms what I was saying in the comment I left in your previous post in the issue. Syria is still hoping that the REAL “price” they get for peace is much more than the Golan. They’re hoping for a new US president who will give them Lebanon and drop the Hariri tribunal.

  2. I’d say that the nuclear reactor that the Israelies destroyed last September – which had the potential to convert spent fuel from the reactor into weapons grade plutonium – will also be on the mind of the next U.S. administration. Indeed, having “…..the vision and the will for the peace process” will be a strong factor in treating Syria accordingly.

  3. Assad has been following the euphoria that follows the Obama campaign and they are convinced he will be the US President and he is probably correct — if it’s Obama, them Obama will give Assad whatever he wants and that would include Lebanon.

    Obama will not win the US Presidential election in November so it’s just more of the same ……. delay and hope for a better deal.