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December 31, 2007

Spector: Assad Wants Peace

Arlan Spector, one of the few Republicans who have shown some leadership in the past 8 years says Syria is ready for peace. He says it's largely accepted that the Golan Heights would have to be returned to Syria. Contrary to popular knowledge, to Syria, the Golan Heights is one of a few bountiful sources of water in for this arid nation.
The Daily Star
Two visiting US Congressmen announced after talks with Syrian leaders on Sunday that they had secured a pledge that jailed dissidents would be freed and said they saw scope for progress in the peace process with Israel. Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, a member of President George W. Bush's Republican Party, and Congressman Patrick Kennedy, a Democratic representative from Rhode Island, met with President Bashar Assad and Foreign Minister Walid Moallem.


[..]Specter also sounded an upbeat note about the prospects for movement on the peace process between Syria and Israel, which has been frozen since 2000, saying it was now generally accepted that Israel would have to return the Golan Heights which it seized in 1967.

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