Syrian government requests for peace talks

1-Peace talk and Camp David:
In 2000 in the middle-east talk at Camp David what looked like to be a normal peace talk turned out to be a political scandal with are president George Bush and his foreign policy advisers had warned the Israelis delegation to get ready to walk out of the deal to negotiate.

Israel and Syria have commenced and stopped peace negotiations over the years. In recent years, Syria has repeatedly requested that Israel re-commence peace negotiations with the Syrian government. (The Times (UK), December 20, 2006, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article758520.ece last visited Feb. 26, 2007). There is an on-going internal debate within the Israeli government regarding the seriousness of this Syrian invitation for negotiations. The United States demanded that Israel desist from even exploratory contacts with Syria to test whether Damascus is serious in its declared intentions to hold peace talks with Israel. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was forceful in expressing Washington's view on the matter to Israeli officials that even exploratory negotiations with Syria are not to be attempted. Israel has thus far obeyed Washington's demand to desist (Haaretz, February 24, 2007, http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/829441.html last visited Feb. 26/07; The Times (UK), December 20, 2006, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article758520.ece last visited Feb. 26, 2007).

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