Posted on 09/29/2020 6:06:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Today's top stories 29.09.20
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I set the link to the time index when the rather brief story about Assad's supposed renewed supposed interest in supposed direct talks with Israel.
Syria seeks dialogue with Israel; France accuses Hezbollah of Lebanon-crisis - TV7 Israel News 29.09
No war without Egypt, no peace without Syria. -- Henry Kissinger
The Latest: Israel says Hezbollah has ‘arms depot’ in Beirut
Beloit Daily News
https://www.beloitdailynews.com/news/national-news/the-latest-israel-says-hezbollah-has-arms-depot-in-beirut/article_112e0b08-52af-59a3-b272-e8c18bda84eb.html
Israel-UAE Peace Deal Challenges Iranian, Muslim Brotherhood Camps
By Yaakov Lappin
September 1, 2020
Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies
https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/israel-uae-peace-iran-muslim-brotherhood/
A peace with Israel is in the best interests of Assad.
Apparently never has been, or he'd have had peace as soon as the Syrian law was altered to make it possible for him to inherit his father's throne.
Make Lebanon 80% Christian again.
Looks like Assad is abandoning his Shiite allies in Iran and Lebanon. Interesting, and I wonder if it isn’t being prompted by Trump’s peace deals between Israel and the Gulf States.
Syria's been a quaqmire for all involved, but Assad's stuck with it, so getting the occupiers (Iran, Iran's proxies, Turkey, Russia) out may have overcome his idealogical Arab racism.
selections from the Abraham Accords keyword (since topic 3886636), sorted:
He looks a lot like Gett Smart.
Maybe, if he talked into his shoe phone...
Oh wow... and Bibi looks like The Chief...
Interesting that Syria is making some overtures.
I wonder how serious they are because Hezbollah and Iran have such a foothold in that country. I can’t imagine the Syrian govt being brave enough to risk the wrath of the two groups that helped save it during the civil war.
Time for the Cone of Silence.
Melania must be 99.
Nope, that wasn’t possible before the Arab spring
Now with the UAE and Bahrain signing up, Assad will be next
Unlikely to get a yes from Israel as long as (1) Iran has forces in Syria, (2) Iran keeps supplying Hezbollah with missiles, stockpiled in Israel, and (3) as long as Assad can’t continue in power without the support of Hezbollah.
Even Russia cannot break the Assad-Hezbollah convergence, because Russia is not going to get into a ground war with Hezbollah in Syria, and now, with near universal Syrian Sunni rejection of Assad, without Hezbollah Assad is toast, a clear Russian puppet.
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