One of Syria’s official newspapers warned Israeli Prime Minister-Ehud Barak that including the Likud Party in his governing coalition would be “disastrous” for peace with the Arab world. Just the same, the English-language Syria Times added that the forming of the coalition is an internal Israeli affair.
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