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To: LTK007 who wrote (74949)	4/12/2007 4:13:47 PM
From: Crimson Ghost	Read Replies (2) of 89467

Syria-Israel peace possible within 6 months JERUSALEM - Syria and Israel could clinch a peace deal in six months, a Syrian-American businessman at the heart of secret unofficial peace talks said on Thursday after appearing before a top parliamentary panel. "Peace can be reached in six months if both parties are willing," Ibrahim (Abe) Suleiman said. "The negotiations are finished. There are only minor things that could be fixed in two or three meetings. Peace is possible now." Suleiman spoke to reporters after appearing before parliament's powerful foreign affairs and defence committee with Alon Liel, a former Israeli foreign ministry director general who headed the Israeli side in the unofficial talks. Suleiman and Liel headed two years of the secret talks during which understandings were reached for a peace treaty between Syria and Israel. "Our work is done, now it's up to officials in Israel and Syria to sit down and iron out their differences," the US businessman said. "We gave them a peace map." Syria's "President Bashar al-Assad wants peace with Israel. He wants to make peace and be known as the man of peace. "I believe him, but Bashar al-Assad alone cannot make peace, he needs a partner in Israel. I challenge the Israeli government to answer President Bashar's call for peace to sit down together and work things out." Reports of the secret talks first appeared in the Israeli press in January. At the time, the Israeli and Syrian governments denied any knowledge of the contacts, which were held in Europe between September 2004 and July 2006 in the presence of a European mediator. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has repeatedly rejected peace overtures by the Syrian president in recent months, saying Damascus must first stop supporting militant groups in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. Peace talks between Israel and Syria collapsed in 2000, in part because of disputes over the return of the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Six Day War and unilaterally annexed in 1981. Middle East Online

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