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Syria flags hung by left-wing Israeli activists from the Peace Now organization at the entrance to Jerusalem July 10, 2007. (Photo by Peace Now organization/Flash90)


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Peace Now activists hang Israeli, Syrian flags in Jerusalem

By Israel Insider staff July 10, 2007

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As part of their "Talk to Syria Now" campaign, Peace Now activists placed Israeli and Syrian flags on the main road into Jerusalem Tuesday in support of peace talks between the two countries following Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's Monday offer to renew peace negotiations.

"We wanted to convey the message that the public wants the government must prevent the next war and try to reach an agreement with Syria," Peace Now director Yariv Oppenheimer told Ynetnews.

"In the past few months Syria has been indicating that it is willing to negotiate, and the alternative to this would be war."

Syria, however, rejected the prime minister's offer to renew negotiations, saying that the proposal was not serious.

Over the weekend, former US envoy to the Middle East Dennis Ross warned of the risk that war might break out between Syria and Israel.

"Nobody has made any decision [about going to war], but the Syrians are positioning themselves for war," he said in an interview with Ynetnews.

Peace Now is planning to hold a rally this Thursday for the first anniversary of the Second Lebanon War, where the group will push for peace talks with Syria.

In response to Peace Now hanging the flags, right-wing activists Baruch Marzel and Itamar Ben Gvir of the National Jewish Front movement filed a police complaint claiming that hanging flags of an enemy state on Israeli soil was illegal. Syria has had the status of an enemy state to Israel since the 1973 Yom Kippur war.

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