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هاآرتز - 11/6/2007

Exiled Syrian reformer urges return of Golan - but not to Assad

Farid Ghadry, the exiled head of Syria's tiny opposition Reform Party, yesterday urged Israel to return the Golan Heights to Syria - but not while Bashar Assad is president.

Speaking in an interview with Haaretz a day before he is scheduled to address the Knesset, Ghadry said that the Golan is "100 percent Syrian" and Israel must return it. But if Israel returns the land to Assad, he would become a hero, Ghadry said, adding that this would not stop the Syrian president from harming Israel.

Ghadry, who spoke in polished American English with only the slightest hint of an Arabic accent, recommended that Israel refrain from making peace with the Assad government, because this would only allow him to buy time. Israel, he said, should negotiate peace with the Syrian people, rather than with Assad, as pursuing a peace agreement with an undemocratic Syrian government would stifle efforts to bring about democratic change in the country.

"Don't make peace with a dictator, or you will convince the Syrian people that you don't care for their liberties and don't care for their well-being," Ghadry said during a conference at the Harry Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Let us bring democracy to Syria, Ghadry added to Haaretz, and we will bring peace.

Ghadry advocates gradual change toward pluralistic democracy in Syria through pressure from the international community and what he calls Syria's Internet generation: Syrian youths who use the Internet to see beyond the state-controlled media.

Ghadry, a Syrian-born Sunni Muslim, left Syria in 1971 and became a U.S. citizen in 1982. He founded the Syria Reform Party in Washington D.C. following the September 11, 2001 attacks to act as a base of opposition to Assad. The party, he said, has several hundred members.

However, Ghadry's rivals accuse him of posing as a leader without having any followers. Some say he is reminiscent of Ahmed Chalabi, the exiled Iraqi Shi'ite leader who encouraged U.S. President George W. Bush to topple Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein but then failed to win support from the Iraqi public.

Ghadry, a charismatic speaker, dismisses such charges and says his supporters include members of the Syrian elite, tribal leaders and minorities, and that many of them support the dialogue he is conducting with Israel.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/869228.html

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