[Ha'aretz] A senior Israeli cabinet minister said Tuesday that there were no contacts between Israel and Syria and that a Ha'aretz report on understandings between the two nations was "a bluff." Miri Eisin, a spokeswoman for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, said: "We have never sanctioned anybody to speak to the Syrians." Dr. Alon Liel, a former director general at the Foreign Ministry, who took part in meetings with Syrian representatives, said "there was no official Israeli connection to the content of the talks and to the ideas that were raised during the meetings."
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