This is a big step-US: Assad no longer potential peace partner for Israel

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Top US State Department official says it's difficult to pursue other diplomatic missions while Syrian regime violently puts down protests.

http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPol...aspx?id=218005

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This has nothing to do with Syria being a peace partner of Israel. It means the US/UN/the world leaders are no longer going to claim Assad as a possible reformer. They can now start to say he has to go as well.

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Syria

"In view of the negative stance taken by the leadership of the Arab Socialist Baath Party toward the events in Syria and in Deraa, and after the death of hundreds and the wounding of thousands at the hands of the various security forces, we submit our collective resignation," said a declaration signed by the Deraa officials.

A separate declaration sent to Reuters said a further 28 Baathists in the restive coastal city of Banias also resigned on Wednesday to protest the "practices of the security forces against honorable citizens... and torture and murder they committed."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...ternational%29