APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula articles from April 2005

APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula archives from April 2005

SYRIA - Pax Americana Is Changing - Part 17F - The Israel Factor & Implications.
April 25, 2005... The funeral of Pope John Paul II at the Vatican on April 8 provided a rare opportunity for dramatic, if brief, moments of Middle Eastern diplomacy as Israeli President Moshe Katsav shook hands with Syria's Bashar Al-Assad and Iranian President...

SYRIA - Assad Overtures Turned Down.
April 25, 2005... Assad has made numerous overtures to both Israel and the US and all have been turned down. Neither the Bush administration nor the government of Ariel Sharon is interested in engaging a Syrian Baathist dictatorship in a peace negotiation;...

SYRIA - Trouble Ahead For Assad.
April 25, 2005... In an interview with the Arab daily Al-Hayat published recently, Syria's Deputy Foreign Minister Walid Al-Moallem said Damascus had done its part concerning the UN Resolution 1559 and that from then on the UN's special envoy, Terje Roed Larsen,...

SYRIA - No Super-Power Backer.
April 25, 2005... Yet such an alliance without the support of a super-power to challenge the American hegemony can go nowhere: no Soviet Union to lean on anymore. Russian President Vladimir Putin on March 18 joined the leaders of France, Germany and Spain in...

SYRIA - Can The Assad Regime Survive?
April 25, 2005... In his Greater Middle East (GME) project, Bush wants Syria to become a true democracy. The way the Assads control Syria makes it impossible for them to allow this to happen, simply because they know they will not survive. Judging by the...