Pan arabs don’t have any credibility, they’re dead, just like their leader, Saddam.
In any case, Ahmedinejad is irrelevant in this, as is your article, and as are all of your posts.
Here is a real article that discusses the issues:
ANALYSIS-Peace or PR? Olmert pressed on Syria talks
Dan Williams
Reuters North American News Service
May 22, 2008 08:21 EST
JERUSALEM, May 22 (Reuters) - Israelis have a term for a prime minister they think should be spared censure so he can pursue peacemaking – “etrog”, a variety of lemon grown with care to avoid bruising.
Whether the country believes Ehud Olmert falls into this category could determine whether Israeli talks with Syria have a chance of bearing any fruit over the next few months.
Olmert’s decision to go public with Israeli-Syrian rapprochement efforts is regarded by many Israelis as a crude gambit to distract attention from a criminal investigation that could force him from office.
The Israeli leader is due to undergo a second police interrogation on Friday and the Turkish-mediated Syria talks had to vie for newspaper space with disclosures about Olmert and his ties to an American financier at the heart of a bribery case.
The top two dailies carried identical headlines – “Probe and Peace” – summing up the sense that the stories are linked.
There is little doubt about the seriousness of Olmert’s desire for a diplomatic breakthrough, or that the Syrian option he has explored for many months could prove more feasible for Israel than its contacts with the factionalised Palestinians.
Yet Damascus is firm on its demand for a return of the Golan Heights which Israel captured in a 1967 war, and then annexed and settled with popular domestic backing. For Olmert to cede the strategic plateau, he would have to win majority approval in Israel’s fractious parliament and, possibly, a referendum. Neither is likely if the prime minister, already weakened by the costly 2006 Lebanon war, continues to be dogged by legal problems. Olmert has denied wrongdoing, but he has also vowed to resign if indicted – itself no recipe for stability.
“Anyone who says that Olmert is trying to make peace with Syria because of the investigation is mistaken,” wrote Ben Caspit in the mass-circulation Maariv.
“On the other hand … etrog season is over. It’s true that peace between Israel and Syria is important, but cleaning out our filthy political stables is no less important.”
Jews grow the etrog in protected conditions to provide unblemished specimens for use in autumn religious festivals.
STRATEGY, SECRECY
Israeli officials have said an accord with Syria would bring added strategic gains by requiring that Damascus distance itself from the Jewish state’s most virulent foes: Iran, Palestinian Hamas and Lebanese Hezbollah. Such a radical reshaping of the region could go a long way toward shoring up Olmert at home.
Olmert has been at pains to stress that the contacts so far, held at an Istanbul hotel where Turkish go-betweens shuttled from his aides to their Syrian counterparts in another room, are only preliminary.
Many analysts believe that any significant progress in the Israeli-Syrian negotiations would be made only after U.S. President George W. Bush, who has been cool to the idea of engaging Damascus, steps down next year.
That has made some decision-makers question Olmert’s timing.
“Why not let them continue negotiating in secret until there is something solid to go public with, or at least a new U.S. administration? It’s hard to avoid the thought that there is a PR payoff here,” one Israeli cabinet minister told Reuters.
According to the minister, there is risk attached to Turkish mediation in the talks.
“If there’s an impasse, then the Turks alone will be in a position to give an accounting of the whys and wherefores. How will our PR as a nation suffer then?” the cabinet member asked.
Olmert has survived decades of Israel’s bare-knuckle politics and few would write him off just yet. Peacemaking, he told Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper on Thursday, is “the crowning glory of my work, and not all the rumours that have filled the country about me”. Weighed against any idea of Olmert subordinating diplomacy to self-interest is his refusal to discuss Israel’s air force bombing in September in Syria. Doing so could perhaps win over many of his more hawkish critics in Israel. Bush’s administration said last month that a North Korean-built nuclear reactor had been targeted, despite denials from Damascus. Bush explained Washington had withheld details for fear of precipitating a new war between Israel and Syria.
With speculation mounting of possible Israeli and U.S. military strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities, even a lukewarm engagement with Syria could be of benefit to Olmert.
“There is absolutely no way that, in his current situation, Olmert can give the Syrians the Golan,” said Israeli political analyst Raviv Drucker. “But that doesn’t mean he can’t keep them talking as an alternative to war.” (Editing by Robert Woodward)