PRESIDENT ASSAD/ AMMAN SUMMIT SPEECH   (March 27, 2001)

"We have never been aggressors against Israel; We, however, have ever been attacked by Israel,'' President Bashar Assad declared. "The Israelis are afraid of the past with its historical perspective hence they have no history where they have never exist in this region,'' His Excellency added in his historic address to Arab Summit here today. President Assad noted that the Israelis very well know that they '' don't own this land, which is possessed by Arabs''. The President ridiculed the Israeli claims for security asserting that '' the person on whom aggression falls should seek security. We have to make sure that Israel would never launch an aggression against us, bombard an institution in Iraq, or assassinate an official in Tunisia or in Malta,'' in reference to the Israeli many committed crimes against Arabs "There would never be a peace without the retaining of the land in full and without the security of each Arab citizen,'' the President underlined.

His Excellency belittled the Israeli threats against Syria, Lebanon or against other Arab countries saying that the Israelis '' through their military solutions move from a failure to another'' ,'' The Israelis, furthermore, didn't forget their defeat in Lebanon at the hands of the Lebanese Resistance in less than a year,'' HE called for a closer look at the Israeli public opinion '' The Israelis killed Rabin, when they suspected that he would offer something for peace, a mere suspense made them kill him though he was the hero in breaking the Palestinians' bones during the first Intifada,'' "As Arabs we consider all the Israelis right-wingers,'' HE said recalling '' Peres's present to the Israeli p[public opinion through Qana Massacre' '' Barak presented more than 400 Palestinian martyrs,'' "We are never concerned with names, Sharon, internationally renowned as the man of massacres, killing and hatred against Arabs, hates every Arab-related thing, Sharon was elected by the Israeli street itself.'' ''The reality of the Israeli public opinion should be probed; Israel is a racial society and a more racist one than the Nazism,'' President Assad called on Arabs '' as not to fall in the trap of linking our stances and policies on our causes to those on persons in Israel or among the Israeli street,'' "Every single Israeli is responsible for each span of the occupied Arab territories and for every Arab to be killed,'' President Assad added.

His Excellency blasted the Israeli violations of International Legitimacy resolutions and of people's rights and lands. "The Palestinian Intifada is ongoing and with enthusiasm amid an increasing national spirit,'' calling for an Arab support for the Intifada through '' Direct financial aids'', '' an international campaign to speak of the Intifada as the legitimate resistance,'', and through ' Arab-Arab coordination,''. HE reiterated Syria's rejection of any unjust, deformed and partial peace which '' gave her the more of power factors and chips,'' HE noted to the failure of ten years of pressures on Syria as to accept a deformed peace in '' the failing ten years of the peace process,'' President Assad brushed aside the Palestinian Authority past separate signed deformed peace deal extending a helping hand for the Palestinians. "The Syrian power chips are at the service of the Palestinian Cause, which has ever been the central cause for Syria and for all Arabs, We never accept to sort the Syrian issue at the expense of Palestinian,'' HE reiterated Syria's support for the full return of East Jerusalem, all Palestinian Refugees, every Arab right, and for the establishment of an independent Palestinian State with Jerusalem as its capital. In reply to some sinister bids, HE noted that '' Syria could never be a stick by Israel against Palestinians under any condition,''" Illusion are those who were to believe as to put pressure on Syria through the Palestinian track,'' President Assad called on the Arab Leaders as to take '' courageous decisions'' through the Summit with a ' responsible and frank dialogue" ' hence our people aspire for many outcomes from the summit'' and called for '' boosting the mechanism of Arab joint actions at all levels with no limits''. President Assad called for '' Urgent lifting of sanctions imposed on Iraq'' and for '' An Arab decisive and united stance from any bombardment against Iraq''. HE spoke of the suffering of the Iraqi people and of the '' Kuwaiti justified concerns of what had happened'' calling for a new leaf to be turned on hence '' Arab-Arab differences would be definitely sorted out sooner or latter, and sooner is the best,'' Although '' The Israelis have no desire for genuine peace'' HE reiterated Syria's cling for the '' Just and comprehensive peace based on Madrid Terms of Reference, withdrawal from the Lebanese , Syrian, and Palestinian territories to June4 1967 lines, the return of East Jerusalem, and the establishment of an independent Palestinian State with Jerusalem as its capital,'' President Assad called also for the follow up of the issue of the creation of a war Tribunal to try the Israeli war criminals, reconsider the UN resolution which considered Zionism a form of Racism, reactivation of Arab boycott against Israel. President Assad called for speeding up of the creation of a joint Arab market, and reactivation of the Arab League Charter. HE, furthermore, called on the US Administration to benefit by lessons and mistakes of the past as to know that '' The Arab public opinion could never be jumped over when it comes to caused pertaining to the people's rights''. President Assad called on Russia and the European Union for an active role calling on the Summit to be '' up to the people's expectations.''

M. Abdo Al Ibrahim

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