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A Palestinian stands near a signpost demarcating the old Syria-Israel border
near Lake Kinneret, which stood until June 5, 1967.

8-Year Recess

What's pushing old foes Israel and
Syria to talk?

Ron Kampeas
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

into Iraq and for interfering in Lebanese
affairs. This month, Hezbollah militia-
men backed by Iran routed the U.S.-
Washington
backed Lebanese army in violent clashes
in Beirut, alarming officials in the Bush
administration.
he diminishing fortunes of the
Syria, analysts said, also may regard
Bush administration and the
Hezbollah's recent political and military
resurgent fortunes of Hezbollah
gains with alarm — notwithstanding its
may be behind the surprising announce- longstanding alliance with the Lebanese
ment last week that Syria and Israel are
terrorist group.
renewing peace talks.
Syria's alliances in Lebanon have shift-
The disclosure by the two countries,
ed over the decades, from the Christians
which said Israel and Syria would launch in the 1970s to the Palestinians to the
talks in Ankara under Turkish auspices,
Sunni Muslims and, over the last decade
came despite longstanding U.S. opposi-
or so, to Hezbollah's Shiite plurality in
tion to talks with Syria. The news gar-
the country, noted David Makovsky,
nered only tepid endorsement from the
a senior analyst with the Washington
Bush administration.
Institute for Near East Policy.
"We were not surprised by it, and we
But Hezbollah's growing power
do not object to it:' said Dana Perino,
— including its resurgence following
the White House spokeswoman. "We
the 2006 summer war with Israel, its
hope that this is a forum to address
relative strength vis-a-vis the Lebanese
various concerns we all have with Syria
army and its success last week in secur-
— Syria's support of
ing a veto in the Lebanese cabinet
terrorism, repression of its own
— threaten to undermine the balance
people."
of power between Lebanon's minorities
With Bush nearing the end of his term that has allowed Syria to control much of
in office, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud
Lebanon.
Olmert might have felt emboldened to
"Syria has been a patron of Hezbollah,"
shuck off Bush's longstanding resistance
Makovksy said, "but there has always
to outreach toward Syria, analysts said.
been an ambivalence because it doesn't
"This demonstrates that what has kept share its Islamist orientation."
things back is the United States:' said
That orientation — militant Islamic
Steve Spiegel, a professor of political sci-
extremism — is shared by Hezbollah,
ence at UCLA and a scholar at the Israel
Iran and Hamas, the largely Sunni
Policy Forum. Bush's "leverage is not
Muslim terrorist group in Gaza that,
as great — Bush has seven-and-a-half
with Iran's backing, has obstructed peace
months left."
negotiations between Israel and the
The Bush administration long has
Palestinian Authority.
blamed Syria for not doing enough to
Israel's defense establishment long has
keep insurgents from crossing its border perceived Syria as the weak link among

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