{"id":369574,"date":"2018-07-16T03:54:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T02:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=369574"},"modified":"2018-07-16T03:54:22","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T02:54:22","slug":"assad-rejects-trumps-peace-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/assad-rejects-trumps-peace-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"Assad Rejects Trump’s ‘Peace’ Terms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse<\/span><\/p>\n

Elijah Magnier, one of the world\u2019s most respected reporters in and about the Middle East, reported on Sunday, July 15th,<\/span><\/a> that Syria\u2019s President, Bashar al-Assad, has rejected a proposed offer from the U.S. Trump Administration. The offer was that U.S. forces will leave some of its key military bases in its military occupation of Syria, if all of Iran\u2019s forces, which Syria\u2019s Government had invited into Syria in order to help conquer the tens of thousands of jihadists who are trying to overthrow and replace Syria\u2019s Government, leave all of Syria, and if Iran also stops supporting Hezbollah in Lebanon, and stops supporting Shiites in Iraq.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is the key part of Magnier\u2019s report<\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the source involved in overseeing the entire military operation for the last years of war in Syria, \u201cPresident Assad was very clear in his answer to the US establishment. Syria \u2013 said Assad \u2013 is determined to liberate the entire Syrian territory regardless of the consequences. There is of course a price to be paid to obtain the liberation of north Syria which is occupied by both the US and Turkey, neither of whom were invited by the Syrian government: this price is worth it\u201d.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The American message is clear: \u201dThe US will leave al-Tanf crossing and abandon north-east Syria in al-Hasaka and Deir Ezzour as soon as possible.\u00a0<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Assad responded: \u201cIranian forces and their allies came to Syria under an official request by the <\/i>[Syrian ]central government and <\/i>[Iranian forces] will leave when this <\/i>[Syrian] government asks the allied forces to leave, and only when all terrorists have been eradicated from the Levant\u201d.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou \u2013 said Assad <\/i>[to Trump\u2019s people]\u00a0 <\/span>\u2013 came to Syria without any permission and occupied our territory. It is therefore our duty to push you out by all means. You shall not obtain by negotiation and peace what you failed to obtain after seven years of war\u201d.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Russian-led peace-talks are being held between Russia, Turkey, and six of the groups in Syria that are trying to overthrow and replace Syria\u2019s Government. These peace talks are being held in Astana, Kazakhstan, and are summarized not in a Wikipedia article but instead buried in a Wikipedia article that\u2019s titled \u201cSyrian peace process\u201d<\/span><\/a>, and these talks are discussed chronologically there, in 11 stages, up through March 2018, as:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 1.17 <\/i>Initiation of Astana talks, and ceasefire (December 2016)<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 1.18 <\/i>First round of Astana talks (January 2017)<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 1.19 <\/i>Geneva IV, February\u2013March 2017<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 1.20 <\/i>February 2017 Astana talks<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 1.21 <\/i>March 2017 and May 2017 Astana talks: De-escalation zones<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 1.22 <\/i>Astana talks, July 2017<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 1.23 <\/i>Astana talks, September 2017<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 1.24 <\/i>Astana talks, October 2017<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 1.25 <\/i>Astana talks, December 2017<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 1.26 <\/i>Sochi talks, January 2018<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 1.27 <\/i>Astana talks, March 2018<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The present reporter has earlier<\/span><\/a> described how and why the Asatana peace process overtook the earlier peace-talks, which the U.S. had arranged to be held under the U.N. in Geneva, and in which the negotiants were actually the Saud family versus Syria\u2019s Government, and where no progress was made, because Syria\u2019s Government insists that only the voters in Syria, and Syrian citizens abroad, in free and fair internationally monitored elections, will determine whom the President of Syria will be; the Sauds won\u2019t be permitted to do that \u2014 so, those U.S.-initiated talks were, essentially, replaced by the ones in Astana, which are being headed instead by Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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