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February 4, 2004       Share:    

Source: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1075782427969&p=1006953079865

Eyes on Damascus

(Jerusalem Post) Yossi Olmert - Syria is one of the last political dinosaurs of the 20th century, something between Saddam's Iraq and North Korea, a rigid dictatorship that is unable to change from within. The ruling clique knows that any change would quickly lead to the collapse of the rule of the Alawite minority that seeks legitimacy by donning the Ba'ath party ideology. Terror is a basic element in Syria's policy toward Israel. We should have no hesitation in setting, as a precondition, that Syria immediately dismantle the terror infrastructures on its territory, cooperate in dismantling Hizballah, and immediately stop supporting anti-Israeli, Palestinian, and other terror organizations. Nothing happening today, as opposed to the media fireworks, points in the direction of real change in Syria.

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