PMO denies peace message to Assad

[CurrentAffairs]

Oops. :roll:


The Prime Minister's Office issued a rare "clarification" Wednesday that, in gentle diplomatic terms, contradicted US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's statement in Damascus that she had brought a message from Israel about a willingness to engage in peace talks.

PMO denies peace message to Assad | Jerusalem Post

 

[CurrentAffairs]

Here she is with the monumental blunder.

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She wants so badly to be a hero. How sad.

 

[CurrentAffairs]

:rofl Apparantly the DP liberals are steering clear of this one. :rofl

 

[VTA]

I've largely decided to not comment on this affair with the hope that it might actually accomplish good, but this does call into question what Pelosi is doing.

While I might believe it all might be a bit of linguistic semantics, I can also believe that it's intentional misinterpretation and something she has no place doing. Already dangerously trumpeting the divide within our country, by going against the Presidents wishes, she's further causing division by saying things that aren't true.

If Olmert felt the need to clarify, he obviously doesn't agree with her statement.

She doesn't belong there as an unsent envoy to talk with someone largely regarded as an enemy, and Bush should stop being so stubborn as to force people like her to think she has to do these things.

Both sides of our Governmental divide is doing a huge disservice to us with these ridiculous divisive actions and both should stop.

 

[Gibberish]

If the reason she stated for going was false then she should be held accountable, as it seems by the article that they were.

I am all for her going on a diplomatic mission when the executive branch fails to conduct their job. However I am not so blinded as to stand by her motives when the very reason for her travels might be a lie.

 

[ARealConservative]

This certainly does change things.

I have been under the impression Israel was supportive of her stance - in which case she was acting as an agent on their behalf. If that proved to not be the case - as it is beginning to appear - she should face some sort of punishment.

 

[talloulou]

I think this is absolute evidence that this woman is dangerously out of control and stupid to boot. Someone better reign her ar$e in. :shock:

 

[rathi]

It looks like she messed up in her role as Israel's messenger, no debate there. If Israel tells her to get lost, it wouldn't surprise me. However, she is not acting as a representative of the United States, so she's not undermining American foreign policy. This matter is between Israel, Syria and herself.

 

[PeteEU]

So Isreal is not willing to discuss peace? I see mixed messages coming out of Isreal here.

The Prime Minister's Office issued a rare "clarification" Wednesday that, in gentle diplomatic terms, contradicted US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's statement in Damascus that she had brought a message from Israel about a willingness to engage in peace talks.

First this "clarification"...sounds more like a botched hatchet job ordered by Bush on a political enemy. Then again the Isrealies might think its good to "beef up" their connection with Bush by hitting out at his domestic political enemies.

According to the statement, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert emphasized in his meeting with Pelosi on Sunday that "although Israel is interested in peace with Syria, that country continues to be part of the Axis of Evil and a force that encourages terror in the entire Middle East."

So they do want peace?

Olmert, the statement clarified, told Pelosi that Syria's sincerity about a genuine peace with Israel would be judged by its willingness to "cease its support of terror, cease its sponsoring of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad organizations, refrain from providing weapons to Hizbullah and bringing about the destabilizing of Lebanon, cease its support of terror in Iraq, and relinquish the strategic ties it is building with the extremist regime in Iran."

Seems they do.. and thats what Olmert told Pelosi.

Pelosi, who met in Damascus with Syrian President Bashar Assad over the objections of US President George W. Bush, said she brought a message to Assad from Olmert saying that Israel was ready for peace talks

Now this is the tricky part. Was there a message or not. Now the bits and pieces in the message on the preconditions for peace talks (on the Isreali side of course) are well known, so no news there. Symbolicly however a "message" (even with the same old language) could be rather important.. lets see what else was in the article.

"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 after meeting Assad.

So Assad is willing to come to the table. And Isreal is willing provided certain steps are taken by the Syrians first... so they kinda willing for peace. Okay so far nothing wrong in what she did there.

She said the meeting with the Syrian leader "enabled us to communicate a message from Prime Minister Olmert that Israel was ready to engage in peace talks as well."

Yep thats true. She was in Olmerts office talking to Olmert and then in Assads office talking to Assad.. thats one of the preconditions for delivering a message, even though the message is well known.

The officials said Olmert had told Pelosi that he thought her trip to Damascus was a mistake, and that when she asked - nevertheless - whether he had a message for Assad, Olmert said Syria should first stop supporting terrorism and "act like a normal country," and only then would Israel be willing to hold discussions.

The first part of that message, the officials said, was lost in what was reported from Damascus on Wednesday.

So there was a message? If there was first and second "part of that message" then there was a message.

Ahh so its the "first part" thats the issue. Pelosi did not infront of Assad say to him to stop supporting terror and act like a normal country. So does anyone know if she told him out of sight of the cameras? but wait..

Pelosi said the congressional delegation she led raised the issue of kidnapped IDF soldiers Gilad Schalit, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev and conveyed "the importance of Syria's role in promoting peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis." She also said she had pressed Assad on Syrian support for Hamas and Hizbullah.

But wait a minute... Olmerts office said that she did not raise this.. but she said she did..

Now now.. Isreal trying to sabotage possible peace talks? Say it aint so... Or maybe Isreal playing a hatchet job for Bush on his domestic political enemy? .. say it aint so.

Question is why Olmert is attempting to discredit Pelosi and once again sabotage any flicker of hope for any peace in the middle east...

Did the Isreali spies in US prisions get time off their sentences now? anyone checked? Got to be some payback on the Bush front.. maybe a pardon coming that way?

Time will tell.