Summary
President Nicolas Sarkozy, who has significantly improved French relations with Israel and is repairing strained ties with Syria, is trying to arrange a meeting between [Ehud Olmert] and [Bashar Assad] in Paris in July.
Syria rejected all that, yet the scandal-plagued Olmert, desperately trying to keep his job, said he's ready to fly to Paris to meet Assad anyway.Assad claims it was a benign military facility but the site has been sanitized since then and any investigation is expected to be inconclusive; meanwhile, Assad refuses to let the U.N. check out other suspected sites.See the full content of this document
Extract
Assad's Gambit: Peace or Process?
Does Bashar Assad really want peace with Israel, or is he only interested in going through the motions?
So far it's not clear even he knows what he wants. Yes, he'd like to regain the Golan Heights his father lost twice.But the minimum down payment is dire...See the full content of this document
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