Next US president may have shot at Israel-Syria deal

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Next US president may have shot at Israel-Syria deal
Nov 3 11:48 AM US/Eastern

The next US president will probably find a settlement to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as elusive as ever but might see an Israeli-Syrian peace accord come within reach, analysts say. Barack Obama or John McCain, they suggest, could use a Syrian-Israeli deal to start restoring US credibility in the region and put a bright spot on a dark horizon from the Palestinian territories to Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan.

And it emerged from interviews with several analysts that Obama would be more likely than McCain to help deliver a Syrian-Israeli deal and invest more energy in the even more difficult Palestinian-Israeli talks.

Aaron David Miller, a former adviser to both Republican and Democratic secretaries of state, said the deal he and other former US officials let slip from their grasp between 1993 and 2000 is back within reach.

"There is a very real possibility of an Israeli-Syrian agreement," Miller, now a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Institute, told AFP in a telephone interview.

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forget it. there isn't going to be any peace between Syria and Israel. For one thing Israel isn't going to give up the Golan Heights after all they went through to gain control over it and with all its security needs and water needs involved. People can dream on and on about peace between israel and her neighbors but it won't happen. For the last 40 years all Ive heard is peace this and peace that and neither side has even come close to real peace.

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Is that a severe typo in the article?



The next US president will probably find a settlement to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as elusive as ever but might see an Israeli-Syrian peace accord come within reach, analysts say.
I think they meant "probably not/won't"?


Barack Obama or John McCain, they suggest, could use a Syrian-Israeli deal to start restoring US credibility in the region and put a bright spot on a dark horizon from the Palestinian territories to Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan.
Yeah, a half assed hand shake between Israel and Syria will surely restore our street cred :roll: