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World Jewish News
'Netanyahu's Jewish state condition ruining peace chances'
15.06.2009
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak blasted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's speech on Sunday saying "Netanyahu's demand that Palestinians recognize Israel as the Jewish state is ruining the chance for peace," Egyptian news agencies reported on Monday. Mubarak further added that "not Egypt, nor any other Arab country would support Netanyahu's approach."
Earlier Monday, a Syrian government newspaper slammed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's speech, and likened Israel's policies towards Palestinians to those of the Apartheid government in South Africa towards black people.
Syria's state-controlled Tishrin published an editorial claiming that the prime minister's foreign policy address proved that Israel's interest is to allow Palestinians to live only in isolated areas, similarly to black people in Apartheid South Africa.
"The Zionist government, according to Netanyahu's speech last night, is willing to establish Palestinian cantons reminiscent of the black people's cantons in South Africa when the racist regime was in power," the editorial stated.
In his speech on Sunday evening, Netanyahu did not mention the Golan Heights, but said he wants to meet all Arab leaders and make peace, stressing that he is "willing to go to Damascus, to Riyadh, to Beirut, to any place," for this purpose.
On Saturday, US President Barack Obama's special Mideast envoy said that Syria has a key role to play in forging peace in the region, during a visit that marked the strongest US push yet to improve relations with the country.
Syria and the US share an obligation "to create conditions for negotiations to begin promptly and end successfully," George Mitchell told reporters after a 90-minute meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad in the capital, Damascus.
Mitchell was the highest ranking official to visit Syria since 2005 when the US recalled its ambassador.
Источник: JPost.com
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