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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (1282)	8/3/2003 3:14:00 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22250

Bush now following the Sharon's demands to "NOW DEAL WITH SYRIA AND IRAN". From the Jerusalem Post: US threatens to block Syria's trade with Iraq -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Janine Zacharia Aug. 3, 2003 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The US is threatening to block Syria from trading with Iraq, including importing oil, as punishment for continuing to aid Palestinian terrorist groups and Hizbullah in south Lebanon. Secretary of State Colin Powell, who has visited Damascus three times to issue US demands, said that Syrian President Bashar Assad "needs to make a strategic choice" and that "there are opportunity costs in this for Syria if they don't change their policies." "We are not going to do anything that would improve the relationship right now," Powell said. Yet he suggested that there could be increased US-Syrian cooperation if Syria changed its behavior. Beyond pressing Syria to shut offices of groups like Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the US has repeatedly asked Syria to prevent the transfer of weaponry from Iran to Hizbullah via the Damascus airport. And the US has raised concerns about Syria's non-conventional weapons program. "They need frankly a better relationship with us to, in turn, have a better relationship with Iraq, which is one of Syria's largest trading partners, concessional oil and commerce," Powell told Ma'ariv in an interview released on Friday by the State Department.