 Israeli President Moshe Katsav said in an interview on Sunday that Syria was sending ambiguous messages on peace talks with Israel. âI think we should reinitiate dialogue. But that depends on their president (Bashar al-Assad),â Katsav was quoted as saying in the interview with El Pais newspaper ahead of a visit to Spain this week. âHe transmits a double message, full of ambiguities; on the one hand he is capable of saying publicly that he wants peace with Israel, but at the same time they cooperate indirectly with Hizbollah. We canât have such contradictory messages,â Katzav said.
| "Contradictory messages make us nervous. You won't like it when we're nervous." |
Katsav added that in any case Syria was not as dangerous an enemy as Iran though just as nutty. âItâs true that Syria is still our enemy, but it does not have nuclear capacity; in the last decade it has stopped calling for the destruction of Israel and although it still cooperates with Hamas, Jihad and Hizbollah, it is very different from Iran,â Katsav said. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Syriaâs Assad may come together for the first time in a Euro-Mediterranean conference in Barcelona in November, which could help to re-establish peace talks between Arabs and Israelis. |