TEL AVIV - The Obama administration was instrumental in facilitating a partnership deal that will see billions of dollars in trade flow between the European Union and Syria that may revitalize Damascus' stagnant economy, Egyptian and other Palestinian diplomatic sources told WND.
U.S. opposition was a main factor in the deal being delayed since it was drawn up as a draft pact in 2004. The deal is worth an estimated $7 billion a year for the Syrian economy. The Bush administration was particularly opposed to Syria's interference in Lebanese affairs and Damascus' military alliance with Iran.
According to the Egyptian and Palestinian diplomatic sources, the Obama administration dropped American opposition to the deal without first extracting a concession from Syria to end its alliance with Iran.
The sources told WND the White House received pledges from Syria to collaborate with the West in Lebanon and Iraq and to play a more constructive role in the Middle East.
"Syria was clear there was no promise to end its ties to Iran," said a diplomatic source....
Obama opens up billions in business for Syria, in exchange for nothing
The U.S. used to be the chief opponent of this deal. Nothing has changed since then except the occupant of the White House. Syria is still Iran's ally. A Which-Side-Is-Obama-On Alert: "Obama opens up billions in business for Syria: Damascus gets crucial deal without promising to drop alliance with Iran," by Aaron Klein for WorldNetDaily, October 9 (thanks to News4U):
IN EXCHANGE FOR PROMISES of something or other vague. If they were written agreements at least we would end up with a desk full of worthless IOU's but under Obama, we never even get the little pieces of paper. Nada bupkis nothin'.
the Obama administration dropped American opposition to the deal without first extracting a concession...
Nobel Laureate Prez Obama launched his political career in the living room of two convicted terrorists.
Worse, his mentor went to Tripoli and glad handed the Moslem Activist dictator who blew up a 747 filled with Americans over Long Island, and our Nobel Laureate Prez Obama again held no criticism of terror, he kept his mentor without comment.
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So we get what we deserve, what we voted for: a born Moslem Prez who's friendly to terror and feels great sympathy for Moslem nations, all of which have a tendency to allow terrorist to operate in their midst.
Barack has grown. The terrorists he launched his career with our dinosaurs, activists of the Marxist kind. The new way is Jihad terror, terror with a purpose, a specific goal that can be implemented regardless of the political economy.
Barack's new terrorist friends are Arabs.
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Do not forget that Osama-not-Obama has an outstanding fatwa in force. Western security officials were well aware of Osama's first fatwa, which resulted in 9/11.
His next fatwa, still in force, is to see a Western city destroyed in a thermonuclear blast. Western security officials are aware of that one too.
One wants to ask our Nobel Laureate Prez Obama a question: did we deserve what we got on 9/11? And do we deserve what's in store for us with his near-namesake's second fatwa?
Alarmed Pig Farmer -
"...And do we deserve what's in store for us with his near-namesake's second fatwa?"
As long as one person somewhere in the world is not free, I am not free. As long as some child somewhere is hungry the food on my plate is stolen food as long as....I forgot the rest of it but it's REAL purty - I heard it once from a highly sensitive and moral girl who thought its ok to blow up Jewish children in ice cream parlors.
I guess having a secret nuclear not-for-energy facility is a plus for relations with the current US regime.