Posted on 06/24/2025 8:05:33 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie
National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi says that Israel and the Syrian regime are in direct daily contact and are discussing the possibility of normalization, Israel Hayom reports.
Hanegbi today confirms comments he made during a classified session of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Sunday, saying “There is direct daily dialogue at all levels between Israel and the regime in Syria. I am leading it with political officials there,” the Hebrew outlet reports.
Hanegbi told the committee that Syria and Lebanon are candidates for the Abraham Accords normalization agreements, the paper reports.
When asked whether Israel had agreed to withdraw the IDF from buffer zones in Syria as part of these efforts, Hanegbi responds: “If there is normalization, we’ll examine this,” but clarified that “we will not withdraw from the Syrian Hermon.”
Hanegbi’s comments confirm recent foreign reports that Israel has been engaged in direct dialogue with Syria to calm border tensions and prevent conflict with new Syrian leader Ahmed Al-Sharaa. He revealed that the conversation is not limited to military channels, but also includes direct diplomatic engagement, the report adds.
When asked in the committee meeting how he responds to IDF intelligence assessments that Sharaa has not parted ideologically from his past ties to jihadist terror groups, Hanegbi replied: “We are evaluating it. Sharaa is being shaped as things move forward.”
In before “muslims murdering Christians is Jews’ fault!” - Nitzy
May we live in the age of Pax Trumpana!!
But looking back in hindsight, it may now depend on how much Iran has been defanged. If Iran is too beaten and/or distracted to help Hezbollah anyway, Israel may soon be wishing Asaad was still in power (if the replacement is as bad as most Muslim tyrants).
Love it!
If Syria can maintain some form of secularism... Then things may work out.
My perspective is somewhat different.
Syria falling was an unexpected effect of Iran’s strategy of using Hezbollah to missile Northern Israel. Ultimately, Israel had to neuter hezbollah because their rocket attacks were unbearable.
Hezbollah was one of the last bits of power Assad had that kept him in power during the Syrian Civil War. When Israel defanged them as required, the Sunni whackos backed by Turkey walked right into the vacuum.
I seem to recall Israel being as surprised as everyone else how quickly that went down.
Once, unadvisedly, after Syria fell, Netanyahu seemed to take credit. But you can’t find any real fingerprints of Israel on the operation itself. Indeed, immediately after Assad fell, and in order to keep them out of Sunni Whackos’ hands, Bibi bombed to smithereens whole armies worth of Assad’s weapons. He always knew where they were, and left them alone. This fact proves that Assad’s fall was not Israel’s goal. Had Israel had the goal of defeating Assad, their post coup destruction of essentially all his weapons proves they could have done so before hand, and chose not to.
Which puts the lie to nitzy yet again.
If Syria can just choose to live its own life and leave its neighbors alone, it will be a vast improvement.
I think you and I are saying the same thing of Israel having an uncozy but do-able relationship with Asaad. And I appreciate the extra details you gave of Hezbollah being part of what kept Asaad in power for a while.
LOL!
Putin’s head is exploding... lol
The rest of the keyword, sorted:
Your assessment of the Israeli/Assad relationship is not correct.
Uncle Miltie can give as many opinions as he wants about it but unfortunately for him there is a paper trail.
Netanyahu commissioned the “Clean Break Memo” back in the 90’s from Bush Jr’s Zionist henchmen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clean_Break:_A_New_Strategy_for_Securing_the_Realm
It called for switching from a policy of a “2 state solution” to placate the adversarial Muslim governments in the ME to a strategy of the removal of adversarial governments in the ME.
The Assad regime was one of them.
They have been advocating for the overthrow of the regime for years.
Gen Clark said he saw the US plans under Bush Jr. to overthrow “7 countries in 5 years”. Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Iran. Sound familiar?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAnNJW9_KYA
During the Syrian civil war they provided training and medical care to the Sunni radicals..
They intended to end the Assad regime and all of the revisionist history in the world isn’t going to change that.
I really don’t know why Israel supporters don’t just say...”Yes of course we did all of that. Yes of course we want to topple all of the governments in the ME. Yes of course we want to control US foreign policy and have them fight our wars for us. Why wouldn’t we? We want to win and we want our people to be safe.”
I could respect that. I just don’t understand lying about it.....
Stand by for incoming…
Here's what the middle east looked like before WW1 and before the European powers supposedly created a massive Israeli empire after the world wars.
After the Ottoman Empire was destroyed (it sucks to join a war on the losing side), and the Allies were figuring out what to do with their land, the so-called "Israel supporters", Zionists, or whatever have made Israel grow so large that they have THIS MUCH LAND ---- the size of New Jersey. LOL
Syria became a new country. As did Jordan. As did Lebanon. As did Israel (eventually). If the west was so adamantly pro-Israel as some people claim, then the Muslim nations surrounding Israel wouldn't be dwarfing them. I repeat, Syria dwarfs Israel in geography and population, because the west made it so. So any lectures about the west being too pro-Israel against Syria is a bit moot.
I don’t disagree with any of that history lesson.
Lots of power dynamics were different in 1948 than they are today. If you think the Israeli people had even a fraction of the political influence in 1948 that they do in 2025, you are wildly missing the mark.
All anti-Semitism, all the time!
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