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Bashar al-Assad had little or nothing of the menacing pose of a traditional Arab dictator. His manner was modest and
the foreign ministers of Iran and Russia (the closest allies of the al-Assad regime) seem to have agreed to help
which I knew Assad had said he considered rightfully Syrian during talks
“‘if all my needs are met.”’ Meaning that if Assad showed a
until well into the autumn of 1999 President Assad was holding firm on
the focus did finally shift to the Syrians. President Assad suddenly
he could phone Assad and tell him that I had
I saw no reason not to do this. If only because of Assad’s failing health
/ BARAK / 44 Western envoys who had seen the Syrian president, that Assad’s many years of health problems had left him almost skeletally frail, even at times disoriented. Even my own negotiating team urged me to concentrate on the Palestinians instead. President Clinton kept st...
/ BARAK / 99 By the end of November, I believed that the chances of a peace agreement with Arafat were so microscopic as to border on non-existent, and that my own prospects for retaining sufficient support to be an effective Prime Minister much beyond Clinton’s departure were n...
as Mr Assad defies the west with ease. As elsewhere in the Middle East
the ruler of Syria is in deep trouble. It may be only a matter of time before Assad falls
they are extremely vulnerable and at the mercy of Assad’s tanks and security forces
short of bombing Damascus or sending arms. That all eyes are currently on Assad is certainly bad news for the dictator.