that the countdown to the end of Syria's Assad regime
Assad
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the Obama administration is worried about creating a worse situation if Assad falls. Take your pick of scary scenarios: civil war
what could he do that would deter a regime in a fight for its life? Pull U.S. Ambassador Robert Ford from Damascus? Impose a travel ban on Assad and his family? Press the Europeans to freeze Assad's money?
/ BARAK / 79 Syrians. Then to Geneva to see Assad, “where I felt like a wooden Indian, doing your bidding. I will not let it happen here. I will simply not do it.” I tried to keep my voice steady when I replied. I explained that the issues...
Syrians. Then to Geneva to see Assad, “where I felt like a wooden Indian, doing
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…. He asked me about the talks under Rabin and Peres, and my views on the possibility of a deal with President Assad. He also wanted my assessment about whether the army could work out arrangements to safeguard the country’s security if we h...
By November, even his Foreign Minister, David Levy, was making noises
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…s were Syrian. Immediately after the resolution was adopted, I engaged in intense negotiations with President Assad, who until the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri on 14 February 2005, was consistently resistant to move o...
…ommunity over another in cynical power plays. Many Sunni Muslims in Syria and throughout the region feel that Assad's Syria has unduly favored the Alawites, a sect of Shiite Islam, who constitute some 12 percent of the population but contro...
groups on the other. But Syria's internal troubles might just as easily
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…nticipating Syrian retaliation, the newspaper Hiirriyet reported that President Abdullah Giil recently warned Assad would pay a heavy price for stirring up trouble in Turkey's Kurdish south-east. Fears that a Syrian meltdown could seriously...
Syrian refugees are already sheltering inside Turkey, as are numerous
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etails turned out not to matter. President Clinton agreed to present the map to Assad in what we both hoped would be a step to reopening the path for peace. The two of them met in Geneva in late March. Though the President also came with fu...
They say that you can read a person’s feelings on his face. But if so, either
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…sides to negotiate. I can’t say I was surprised when Clinton phoned me when we got back to Israel to say that Assad had refused to send Al-Sharaa back, as planned, for a further round of talks in 10 days’ time. I didn’t give up, however, an...
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… that the very association of Camp David with that breakthrough meant it would be a non-starter for President Assad. I then suggested we consider sites outside of the US: NATO’s Incerlik air base in Turkey, for instance, a British base in C...
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…t be evaded. Yet only weeks after I returned from Oslo, the focus did finally shift to the Syrians. President Assad suddenly signalled his willingness to resume talks without any preconditions – a message he delivered first to my British La...
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intelligence services, and 329 / BARAK / 44 Western envoys who had seen the Syrian president, that Assad’s many years of health problems had left him almost skeletally frail, even at times disoriented. Even my own negotiating team urged me...
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expectation that any early progress would occur in informal exchanges. The result was probably to raise General Shihabi’s expectations, which made him reluctant to show any real engagement. After a phone call with Rabin after our first day...
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…tanding had been there would probably be a kind of mirror arrangement for a follow-up meeting: between our ambassador in Washington, Itamar Rabinovich, and a high-ranking army officer from the Syrian side. Instead, we received word that Ass...
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…rogress. In December, Rabin proposed to the Americans that I meet with a Syrian representative, and President Assad agreed. Later that month, I was sent to Washington for talks with Syria’s ambassador, Walid Muallem. With the Americans’ Mid...
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…ding of our position if he felt it might lead to a breakthrough. Our intelligence accounts of the Christopher-Assad talks, however, suggested it had been presented as a straight message from Rabin to the Syrian president, giving it the stat...
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Assad slaughtered 200,000 of his people including by using chemical weapons — and that wasn't enough to get the British parliament and Prime Minister Cameron or the American Congress and President Obama to act. ¢ Then, ISIS beheaded two jou...
Assad slaughtered 200,000 of his people
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or fundamentalists. Then President Assad tried to defuse the
at present Mr Assad remains the least worst
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