Syria won’t attend US Mid-East peace conference

Several leading US analysts think Syria should attend the Mid-East peace conference which will be held in Annapolis, Maryland in November:

http://www.prospectsforpeace.com/2007/10/bipartisan_foreign_policy_lead.html
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/121764.html

Syria says it won’t go unless the discussion involves the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 war:

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104610.html

Meanwhile, Syrians living in the Golan Heights cannot see their family members living in Syria:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/1f3234e3df63d876504d22cdbea6dda1.htm