Pelosi Forgetful in Syria
Charles Johnson
Wed Apr 4, 2007 at 12:16 pm PDT • Views: 491
Nancy Pelosi continues being a good little propaganda tool of Bashar Assad today, echoing Syria’s usual empty “peace” jargon: Syria tells Pelosi it’s ready for peace talks.
“We were very pleased with the reassurances we received from the president (Assad) that he was ready to resume the peace process. He was ready to engage in negotiations (for) peace with Israel,” Pelosi said.
“(Our) meeting with the president enabled us to communicate a message from prime minister Olmert that Israel was ready to engage in peace talks as well,” Pelosi, the third most senior official in Washington, told reporters after talks with Assad.
But in her description of Israel’s readiness to talk with the Syrian thugocracy, Pelosi mysteriously forgot to mention one of Israel’s main prerequisites.
An Israeli government official said that was not the message Olmert had asked Pelosi earlier this week to convey to Assad, who seeks the return of the Golan Heights, a strategic plateau Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war.
“The prime minister said Israel is interested in peace with Syria, but Syria would first have to abandon the path of terror and providing support for terrorist groups,” the official said, in reference to Palestinian group Hamas and Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
Oh yeah, that.
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