Mubarak, Assad discuss Israeli threats against Syria
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak telephoned his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad and discussed with him a host of regional issues, including Israeli threats against Syria and how to deal with them on the international stage, the official MENA agency revealed.
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Israel&#39;s assassination of the Hamas leader Izz El-Deen Sheikh Khalil in Syria is widely seen by the Middle East press as a veiled warning to Damascus, which Israel has accused of supporting terrorists, rather than retaliation to Hamas.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel offered President Bashar al-Assad of Syria a proposal to begin direct peace negotiations and advised him not to wait for American mediation.
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Comments by United Nations special envoy to the Middle East Terje Roed-Larsen regarding Syrian President Bashar Assad&#39;s willingness to resume peace talks with Israel were scoffed at yesterday by senior political sources in Jerusalem.
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JERUSALEM - Syria's announcement that it opened fire on Israeli aircraft invading its airspace has raised the question of why Israel would want to heighten tensions just days after stating that war with its enemy to the north was unlikely.
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DAMASCUS - Syrian President Bashar Assad met on Monday with a senior Palestinian delegation to discuss ways of mending relations between Syria and the Palestinian leadership after long differences triggered by the Palestinian-Israeli Oslo accords.
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Syrian President Bashar Assad scrambled Tuesday to clarify his requirements for resuming peace talks with Israel, after an Egyptian official said Syria was ready to restart the stalled negotiations without conditions.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Monday he respected Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and was prepared to hold peace talks with him, following reports of an Israeli air raid on Syria this month.
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Mystery still shrouds Syria's complaint that Israel bombed its territory but the incident has set nerves jangling across the Middle East, with commentators urging both sides on Friday against an escalation into war.
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Egypt offered Monday to mediate between  Israel and Syria on a possible resumption of peace talks  without preconditions, after a gap of more than four years.
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A UN spokesman says Syria is willing to resume negotiations with Israel on relative UN Security Council resolutions and land for peace.
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Syrian President Bashar Assad is ready to resume peace talks with Israel "without conditions," a top U.N. envoy said Wednesday. It was not immediately clear if Damascus dropped its demand that talks resume from the point where they broke off with Israel four years ago.
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According to United Nations envoy Terje Roed-Larsen, Syrian President Bashar Assad is now willing to restart peace negotiations with Israel &#39;without pre-conditions.
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The leaders of Egypt and Syria met on ways to bring Damascus and Israel back to the negotiating table four years after talks broke off in acrimony over the fate of the strategic Golan Heights.
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Israel&#39;s threats against Syria after the Beersheba suicide bombings would &quot;exacerbate the deteriorating situation in the region,&quot; the Syrian foreign minister said yesterday.
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PARIS -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice issued a veiled warning to Syria yesterday, saying a Lebanon tribunal must be safe while it handles the murder of a Lebanese leader, a prominent critic of Syrian influence in Lebanon. "One thing we'll be talking about is how to make certain these people can be secure in their work," Rice told reporters ...
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Israel accused Syria on Monday of  "directing terrorism" and warned it could face pre-emptive  strikes against militants on its territory, but stopped short  of saying it killed a Hamas leader in Damascus.