News; eager to get involved in a conflictPublished: Wednesday 13 January, 2010
"My read is that we're in a small interim situation where there is a lot
of behind-the-scenes diplomatic activity, trying to see if any beginnings of a deal can be made out; is Hamas beginning to think differently, will it climb down, will it have different positions, are the Israelis open for something? I know the Turks, you know?Erdogan is in Damascus. The Egyptians are earphone headphone very active. The French are very active. Livni is going to France, tomorrow. So, there certainly seems to be a Pioneer headphones lot of political activity, a lot of political smoke?which indicates that there seems to be some talk taking place while the drums of war continue to beat," he said.Salem also said that he doubts Lebanon's Hezbollah wants to get involved in the fray, because its leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah told supporters that any rockets fired on Israel would merely encourage it to attack Lebanon.Syria, he concluded, also doesn't appear eager to get involved in a conflict, either, and President Bashar al Assad has been meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is a moderate and has ties with Israel, to try and find a diplomatic solution to the current conflict. |

