U.S. envoy: We won't stop Israel talking to Syria

[lovuian]

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/837201.html

he United States is not preventing Israel for holding negotiations with Syria and the decision on whether to proceed on this matter is in the hands of the Israeli government, according to U.S. Ambassador Richard Jones speaking to a group of academics at the Davis Institute for International Affairs at the Hebrew University on Monday.

The U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv refused to comment on the ambassador's statements, saying that the meeting was a closed forum. However, the deputy press attache at the embassy, Geoff Anisman, said yesterday, "we are unaware that any U.S. official has ever expressed an opinion on what Israel should or should not do with regard to Syria."


Ambassador Jones, who participates in the meetings of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during her visits to Israel, told the crowd of academics that in all the meetings in which he took part there was never a demand that Israel avoid contacts with Syria.
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I think Israel is just shaking their heads on this one
Where does Bush get these diplomat bozos I thought Bolton was bad

[Tom Joad]

1. You may have thought Bolton was bad... but the Israel Lobby loved

him... oh how they loved him.

http://www.stopaipac.org/bolton.htm

[The Magistrate]

2. And That, Mr. Joad, Relates To This Story How?

Ot do you simply have no comment to make on U.S. support for negotiations between Israel and Syria?