Just in case you were curious what's being written about Annapolis from this neighborhood, here's a sampling of editorials and op-eds from the ever-trusty Syria Times.
Syria`s participation in the world gathering is to test the seriousness of the US Administration towards peace-making in the region and to ascertain that Israel has never worked for a just and comprehensive peace and is not apt to achieve this pressing end.
The Arab people in Syria and other countries in the Arab homeland are not so optimistic about the conference and they don`t pin much hope on the gathering.
The Syrian attitude has always been clear and fair. Syria has repeatedly asked for the resumption of peace talks on this track starting from the point the two sides reached at the Wyeplantation talks where the Israelis deposited the aforementioned pledge with the Clinton administration. It is illogical and unfair to begin from scratch.
Annapolis meeting is suspicious as it apparently intends among other things to separate the Palestinian, Lebanese and Syrian peace tracks, validate Israel`s occupation of the Arab territories, force some Arabs to normalize ties with Israel before peace is attained, by-pass core issues of the long-standing Arab-Israeli conflict and torpedo basic peace obligations as termed in UN resolutions and the internationally-approved "land for peace" principle.
The meeting also intends to further divide the Arabs, bring more chaos, foment sedition and subsequently impose US-Israeli hegemony on the entire Arab region.
That last--particularly full-throated, editorial appeared before Syria decided to attend the meeting. Anyway, I have no larger point in running these snippets. Just giving a view of what's being printed around these parts.
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