The centrality of hereditary succession in the quest for peace and stability was shown by Hafez al-Assad when he agreed to unprecedented good will gestures aimed at drawing Ehud Barak’s Israeli government into a peace deal. An old and sick man who was to die a few months later, he acted with a sense of urgency to reach a deal that would relieve his inexperienced son of the burden of struggling for the recovery of the Golan Heights.
世袭继承的中心在于寻求和平和稳定，这一点当哈菲兹·阿萨德同意以空前的亲善姿态带动巴拉克政府达成和平协议。作为一个几个月后就将辞世的年老体弱的人，他有一种要达成协议的紧迫感，以便让他缺乏经验的儿子不再受到为收回戈兰高地而进行斗争的压力。