Syria’s Freudian Guilt
May 31, 2007, 10:35 am |
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By Andrew L. Jaffee
Sometimes a person’s (or government’s) guilt can be fathomed by how vehemently that entity objects to accusations, and/or denies its guilt. Case in point: Syrian objections to the UN Security Council’s decision to establish an international tribunal to investigate the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Laughingly, Syria is claiming to be looking out of the Lebanese people — after ruthlessly occupying the nation for 29 years. From the BBC:
…The Syrian ambassador at the UN, Bashar Jaafari, condemned the vote.
“Definitely this is something that goes against the interests of the Lebanese people and Lebanon as a whole,” he told reporters after the vote.
The Syrian government has in the past threatened not to co-operate with an international tribunal. …
If Syria is so innocent, why is its government so strenuously crying foul? Hmmm…
A UN inquiry has suggested that Syrian and Lebanese intelligence services played a role in the bombing, but Syria has denied involvement.
Related: Syria, Lebanon, United Nations (UN)
June 1st, 2007 at 2:11 pm
News out of Israel is that Olmert is running up the flagpole a hint that he is ready to negotiate with the Syrians and the inducement is that the Golan will be on the table.
Both Olmert and Bashir Assad are pathetically laughable, the former for fecklessness and the latter for unbridled Jew hatred and dishonesty.
How many times must the observation be made of Ehud Olmert that he needs his head examined before the men in white coats come to take him away for just that purpose, assuming he still has a head to examine by then?
June 2nd, 2007 at 6:09 am
Maybe Olmert wants to go down in history as a “peace-maker,” but I’m not sure how he can believe any peace could be made with the Assad regime. After all, Barak and Rabin tried to make peace with Arafat, and we all know what the result was.