Optimistic rumor: Olmert sends fresh 'nuances' in new message to Syria's Assad

The headline reads, Olmert sends fresh 'nuances' in new message to Syria's Assad. Hey folks get your fresh nuances here. Organic nuances too.

 

But the actual facts as reported are not the same as the headline:

 

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sent a new message to Syrian President Bashar Assad, in which "interesting nuances" were included, according to a senior political source in Jerusalem. The message was sent through Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis, who visited Israel on Monday and then traveled to Damascus.

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On Tuesday, Israel Radio quoted unnamed aides to Olmert Tuesday as denying the report. There was no immediate elaboration.

 

Also responding to the report, Greek Foreign Ministry spokesman George Koumoutsakos, who is accompanying Bakoyannis on her Middle Eastern tour, told Haaretz in a phone interview from Damascus that he was surprised at the news.

 

"Greece and its foreign minister, Ms. Dora Bakoyannis, are not mediators or envoys in the region. The only message that the foreign minister delivered to the president of Syria is one from the Greek government and the European Union, regarding the need to further peace and stability in the area."

 

Shouldn't the headline read "Israel and Greece deny that Olmert sent nuanches to Assad?"

 

Ami Isseroff