Syria blames Israel for US situation in Iraq

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In a tough-talking speech to the UN General Assembly, Syrian Foreign Minister Faruq al-Shara lashed out at "extremist and intolerant policies" aimed at finding "a new enemy under any pretext after the fall of the Soviet Union."

"Israel bears an important share of the responsibility for intensifying and worsening the American predicament in Iraq by avoiding the resumption of the peace process despite the hand extended in peace by the Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese," he said.

"This Israeli course of action may come back to haunt it in the future because its continued occupation of Arab lands is a major cause of the rejection of American policies in the broader Middle East," he said.

Al-Shara said unnamed "think-tanks" had worked "to incite the Americans first and the West to wage endless wars in the Middle East, to underscore the new-old theory of Israel that the Arab-Israeli conflict is not the core of the problems in the region." Al-Shara met US Secretary of State Colin Powell last week on the sidelines of the General Assembly.

http://www.turkishpress.com/turkishpress/news.asp?ID=28710

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1. Which hand is

the 'hand of peace" the one that arms the suicide bombers, or the one that pulls the detonator?