[Ha'aretz] Shmuel Rosner, Akiva Eldar, and Yoav Stern - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Thursday rejected linkage of the Iraqi war with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by the Iraq Study Group. "The attempt to create linkage between the Iraqi issue and the Mideast issue - we have a different view," Olmert said. He also said conditions were not ripe to reopen talks with Syria, adding that he received no indications from President Bush during his recent visit to Washington that the U.S. would push Israel to start such talks. "The question of what Israel can offer Syria has been raised before. The question is, what can we get from the Syrians if we enter negotiations," Olmert said.
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