December 3, 2007 (LPAC)--Slightly more than a month after Israeli President Shimon Peres called for Israeli-Syrian negotiations and Lyndon LaRouche publicly backed that call, an operative of the neo-con Cato Institute in Washington has penned an op-ed for McClatchy-Tribune News Service, saying, the "U.S. should help Israel make peace with Syria."

Leo Hadar, now a research fellow in foreign policy studies at Cato, is a former U.N. bureau chief for the Jerusalem Post. In the Nov. 30 op-ed, he concludes that a realist might "point out that there are chances for an agreement between Israel and Syria--very much along the 'territory-for-peace' formula that was applied at the original Camp David--if the two sides conclude that it's in their interest to reach one. As with peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, the United States couldn't make it happen, but it could help."

LaRouche said Sept. 26 that the key any Mideast peace is Israeli-Syrian negotiations.