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Israel opposition leader dismisses Syria talks
AFP - Friday, December 19
JERUSALEM, (AFP) - - Israeli right-wing opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday dismissed peace efforts with Syria led by interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
"The concessions made by the Olmert-Livni government to the Syrians do not and will not obligate a government that I shall head," Netanyahu, a former prime minister, told Israeli public radio.
Netanyahu, of the Likud party, leads opinion polls ahead of February 10 elections that will determine who will replace Olmert, followed by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.
Olmert heads to Ankara on Monday to discuss Turkish-mediated negotiations with Syria that were launched in May.
He stressed on Thursday that "a peace accord with Syria is in the realm of the possible."
He said the talks "have proven that there is a substantial chance to advance towards a peace agreement and they pave the way to direct negotiations."
But critics, even within the governing Kadima party, insist that as caretaker premier Olmert has no mandate to negotiate.
"If one day an accord with Syria is possible it will be reached by a duly mandated government," said Tzahi Hanegbi who heads the parliamentary foreign affairs and defence committee.
"It is not credible that a transition government which has no mandate should solve in a few weeks a conflict that has lasted several decades," he said.
Israel and Syria have held four rounds of Turkish-brokered indirect discussions since the peace efforts were relaunched in May.
The talks were put on hold shortly after Olmert announced on July 30 he would step down over a series of corruption allegations.
Direct negotiations were frozen eight years ago after Israel baulked at Syrian demands for the return of the whole of the occupied Golan Heights, right down to the Sea of Galilee, the Jewish state's main water source.
Israel seized the Golan in the 1967 Middle East war and annexed it in 1981, in a move unrecognised by the international community.
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