Hoss Criticizes Assad
Ex-Premier Salim Hoss on Thursday criticized Syrian President Bashar Assad for allegedly requesting support for direct negotiations with Israel.
"It appears that President Assad is making the same mistake committed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas who is involved in futile direct talks with the prime minister of the Zionist entity," Hoss said in a statement distributed by the state-run National News Agency.
"Any peace with Israel should be concluded by the three Arab parties involved in the conflict, The Palestinian Authority Syria and Lebanon," Hoss noted.
"Any unilateral peace deal by any of the three Arab sides would be at the expense of the remaining two," he added.
Hoss recalled that all the Arabs had criticized the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat for signing a unilateral peace deal with Israel and "now they are following Sadat”s path."
He accused "those who rush to hold direct talks with Israel" of abandoning commitment to U.N. General Assembly Resolution 194 of 1948 that calls for the return of Palestinian refugees to their home in pre-Israel Palestine.