Bush to Olmert: Why are you giving Syria the Golan for nothing?

It belies logic and reason that this crooked quisling should attempt to bring down the Jewish state as expeditiously as possible before he gets thrown out on his corrupt, bony ass.
How vile and abhorrent this clownish creep is. How dare he? Give Golan to Syria? Is he mad?

Bush to Olmert: Why are you giving Syria the Golan for nothing?

WASHINGTON - U.S. President George Bush believes that Israel is offering Syria the Golan Heights without getting anything in exchange, according to sources briefed on his White House meeting with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert last week.

After Olmert updated Bush on Israel's indirect talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad, the U.S. president demanded, "Why do you want to give Assad the Golan for nothing?" the sources said.

"It's not for nothing," Olmert insisted. "It's in exchange for a change in the region's strategic alignment."

Bush persisted: "Why should you believe him?" And to that, Olmert did not reply.

The Bush administration has long had reservations about Israel's talks with Syria and refuses to play any active role in them. Infuriated by Syria's involvement in anti-American terror in Iraq, as well as its undermining of Lebanon's fragile democracy, Bush preferred to invest his diplomatic capital in Israeli-Palestinian talks, while eschewing contacts with the Syrians.

Olmert tried to explain the strategic importance that Israel attaches to the talks with Syria, describing the Middle East as being defined by two axes: an extremist "horizontal axis" running from Iran via Syria to Hezbollah and Hamas, and a pragmatic "vertical axis" running from Turkey via Syria to Israel, Jordan and Egypt. Syria, Olmert argued, sits at the intersection of these two axes. Thus should it switch its allegiance to the "vertical axis," this would greatly weaken the extremists and strengthen the pragmatists.

Olmert also believes that Bashar Assad has moved much closer to Iran than his father Hafez ever did. Today, he said, Damascus is locked in an Iranian "bear hug" that threatens the very existence of its secular regime. That, combined with Syria's dismal economy, creates an opportunity to flip Assad into the moderate camp, the premier argued.

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama favors American dialogue with Syria, and would presumably agree to take an active role in Israeli-Syrian talks. Aaron Miller, a veteran of former president Bill Clinton's peace team, published an article in The Washington Post Saturday in which he urged Obama to adopt a "Syria first" strategy.

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[Davod]

Bush unleashed is good. It is a pity the Baker/Hamilton crowd has been running foreign ploicy for the last two years.

[David Perkins]

It was James Baker who famously said "flip Syria, that's the key to this whole deal".

I never liked Baker and I don't like this idea. Syria is sold out, riddled with extremists, in hock up to its eyebrows to Iran, and the only result of a change in allegiance from Iran to the moderates and the West would be a strong, determined and unyielding campaign on the part of Iran and Hezbollah to bring down Assad and change the government of Syria to Islamist.

The 'flip' that Baker wanted, the one Olmert believes in, would be SUICIDE for the Opthalmologist. And he KNOWS it.

[TINBH]

Good for GW - but too little, too late.

Just some “coincidences” occurring in recent history …

On the same day that US president G.H.W. Bush enabled the “land-for-peace” plan in 1991, a massive storm, with 100-foot waves, hit New England even damaging to the Bush home

August 1992, 24 hours after the talks regarding this “land-for-peace” scheme began again, Hurricane Andrew hit the U.S. causing 30 billion dollars of damage

Between 27 April and 13 September 1993 Israel developed a “peace agreement” with the “fakestianian terrorists” in Washington DC
- the U.S. is hit with the worst flooding in its history – causing 21 billion dollars of damage;

Talks from 25 August to 10 September 2001 between U.S. Israel and the desert dwellers to develop another “peace plan” occurred –
we all know what happened on 11 September 2001

In November 2002 - 88 tornadoes – in NOVEMBER - hit 7 U.S. states – when during the same time as the arabic “religion’s” “holy” month, U.S. President G.W. Bush bowed to arab “religion” by hosting a dinner in its “honor” and for “the revelation of Gd’s word in the arab “religion’s” “holy book

28 August 2005, U.S. forces Israel to remove Israelis from Gaza – including the removal even of their dead -for re-burial in Israel: 29 August 2005 – Hurricane Katrina – causes the largest disaster in U.S. history costing 200 billion dollars … and more

Not to mention the loss of lives and misery suffered by all of humanity

(Partial source – Wm. Koenig)

[PersonOfTheBook]

Absolutely idiotic! We saw what happened when Sharon gave Gaza to the Palestinians -- it is being used as a base of attacks against Israel.

Hey Olmert! Don't you remember? Syria used to launch missiles down on Israel from the Golan Heights. That's the reason you took it from them in the first place. If you give it to them, be prepared for the resumption of missile attacks on Israel. And it won't be so easy to retake in the future.

[Davod]

"Hey Olmert! Don't you remember? Syria used to launch missiles down on Israel from the Golan Heights. That's the reason you took it from them in the first place."

Giving back the Golan Heights has been part of every Israeli overture since they were captured.

[PersonOfTheBook]

"Giving back the Golan Heights has been part of every Israeli overture since they were captured."

When Israel (and the whole world) saw what happened when they gave Gaza to the Palestinians, they should have rethought the entire "land for peace" thing.

When they saw that they got spit upon as thanks for the gift they gave to the Palestinians, at that point they should have said, "No more land for peace".

Jesus had some good advice for Israel -- "Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces" (Matthew 7:6). (In fact, He was speaking to Israel when He said it.) In the case of Gaza, they gave a great pearl to a group of swine, and the swine have trampled it under their feet, and turned, and tried to tear Israel in pieces.

[yonason]

"The Bush administration has long had reservations about Israel's talks with Syria and refuses to play any active role in them"

Glad you told me that. It shows that Bush at least has SOME common sense. It also shows how Israeli "leaders" really are so utterly clueless that it has to be a miracle they are even going to war with Hamas at all, let alone winning (at least, so far). It also shows that despite our "leaders" willful disregard for our history, our lives and our Religion, Hashem is going to keep his promise to those of us who do care.

I fear for America after Bush leaves, because what sanity there was in his administration will totally evaporate in an Obaminable one.