Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Syria was setting an "impossible threshold" for peace talks by demanding Israel commit to withdraw fully from the occupied Golan Heights before negotiations resume.
Two buses collided head-on in northern Syria on Saturday, killing 20 people and wounding 50, a Syrian news agency reported.
Israel and Syria must conduct direct peace talks, without a mediator, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was quoted as saying, in response to Syrian President Bashar Assad who proposed third-party involvement.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Syria was setting an "impossible threshhold" for peace talks by demanding Israel commit to withdraw fully from the occupied Golan Heights before negotiations resume.
Source: Reuters JERUSALEM, July 21 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Syria was setting an "impossible threshhold" for peace talks by demanding Israel commit to withdraw fully from the ...
Israel on Friday denounced an alliance between Iran and Syria that it said cast doubts on Syrian peace intentions, following a visit by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Damascus.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel cannot meet a Syrian demand to commit in advance of peace negotiations to withdraw from all Syrian territory captured in the 1967 Middle East war.
Israel and Syria must conduct direct peace talks without a mediator, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was quoted as saying on Friday.
JERUSALEM -- Israel and Syria must conduct direct peace talks, without a mediator, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Friday.
LONDON, July 21 (IranMania) - Israel denounced an alliance between Iran and Syria that it said cast doubts on Syrian peace intentions, following a visit by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Damascus, AFP reported.