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Assad Gives Voice to the Arabs
By Micah Halpern

Tuesday May 25, 2010

I've Been Thinking:

Syria President Bashar Assad met with French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner in Damascus on Sunday.

Emboldened by the meeting, Assad is making some serious statements about the United States and by extension, about the West and about its role in the Middle East.

"If the West wants security and stability to be established in the Middle East, [it] must start to play an effective role to contain Israel and put an end to its extremist policies."

The bottom line is that Syria thinks the way the rest of the Middle East thinks. The problem with that way of thinking is that despite some ups and downs in their relationship this is hardly the beginning of the end of the special relationship between Israel and the US.

Assad is trying to take advantage of the now bumpy relationship between the United States and Israel to announce the Arab point of view to both the Muslim and the Western world.

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