Sharon responds to Syrian offer
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said he would be willing to meet Syrian President Bashar al-Asad under certain conditions.
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Syria denied yesterday that it was forgoing Israel&#39;s commitment to withdraw from the Golan as a basis for negotiations. The commitment was made by former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.
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JERUSALEM  - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Tuesday he has been informed by President Vladimir Putin that Russia will go ahead with the sale of anti-aircraft missiles to Syria, despite Israel's misgivings. Sharon said he is unhappy about Russia's decision. Israel fears the missiles will be supplied to Islamic militant groups in Lebanon.
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Israel and Syria must conduct direct peace talks, without a mediator, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was quoted as saying, in response to Syrian President Bashar Assad who proposed third-party involvement.
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Israel has turned down Syrian President Bashar Al Assadâs peace proposal as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon wants to concentrate on his Gaza withdrawal plan and doesnât want to be diverted in a peace track with Damascus.
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"I've said several times... that it's time for Israel to make gestures which would show that peace is possible, including ending settlements"  France will have no more contact with Syria until Damascus shows willingness to let Lebanon end its long-running political crisis and find a new president, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Sunday. via New Straits Times
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Syria had no official reaction Sunday to Israel's announcement that it has sent secret peace feelers to the Arab country, but a state-run Syrian newspaper accused Israel of sending mixed signals.
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Fearful of being left behind, Syrian President Bashar Assad has been saying something quite startling &#151; that he is willing to resume peace talks with Israel unconditionally.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was expected to offer intelligence and humanitarian assistance to Russia after the Beslan hostage tragedy in talks with visiting Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has approached the opposition Labour Party with a tentative offer to join his shaky coalition, in hopes of avoiding early elections and saving his Gaza withdrawal plan.
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ERUSALEM, Aug. 17 - The day before the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, faces sharp debate about his policies at his Likud Party convention, his government made an effort on Tuesday to pacify his critics, issuing tenders for 1,001 ...
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Syrian President Bashar Assad is offering to make peace with Israel and says he is ready to cooperate with the United States in stabilizing Iraq, a former senior State Department official said Wednesday.
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Syria accused Israel of bombing its territory on Thursday and said it could respond to the Jewish state's "aggression and treachery".
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Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said he would be willing to consider coordinating his unilateral plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip with the Palestinians if the new leadership shows willingness to fight &quot;terror&quot;.
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Syria on Tuesday insisted that it had not dropped a demand that Israel stick to a promise said to have been made by late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin to abandon all Syrian land under any peace treaty.
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JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel said yesterday that wide-ranging peace talks aimed at ending the conflict with the Palestinians will not be renewed until their leaders take strong action to prevent terrorist attacks on Israel.
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Ariel Sharon should meet with Bashar Assad. Although Syria has not expelled the terror groups from Damascus, how could Assad be worse than Mahmoud Abbas, with whom Sharon is willing to meet, as Newsweek reported this week?