Even if he is just gaming the system for bennies, this is proof that the universe exists independent of my imagination and yours, dear Reader. For who could ever have imagined that the head of what used to be Al Qaeda in Syria would even so much as utter such words aloud?
[IsraelTimes] Syrian leader tells Al Jazeera that Damascus has no interest in conflict with Israel; again rejects Trump’s urgings for him to send troops to deal with Hezbollah in LebanonSyrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa said in an interview aired Sunday that his country is working toward a security agreement with Israel, which he said could eventually pave the way for comprehensive peace between the two neighbors.
In excerpts from the interview set to air on Al Jazeera later in the day, Sharaa said that several countries are involved in the negotiations between Damascus and Jerusalem, which he said is focused on reaching an arrangement that would see the Israeli military leave the buffer zone it seized after the 2024 ouster of Syria’s longtime ruler Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad
Lord of the Baath...
The two countries, which have no formal relations and are officially in a state of war, have since been engaged in several rounds of US-backed talks, and in January agreed to establish an intelligence-sharing mechanism, as well as encouraging diplomacy and commercial opportunities between them.
Talks for a wider security deal, aimed at reviving a 1974 disengagement agreement that established a UN-monitored buffer zone between Israel and Syria after the 1973 Yom Kippur War, are ongoing.
Sharaa said that he hoped such an agreement would lead to comprehensive peace talks with Israel, without Syria relinquishing its claim to the Golan Heights, which Israel captured during the 1967 Six Day War and later annexed in a move that Syria and most countries don’t recognize.
He further told the Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
i outlet that Syria had no interest in a confrontation with Israel and was seeking to avoid one.
AGAIN REJECTS LEBANON INTERVENTION
Turning to US President Donald Trump...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat
The Smartest Woman in the Worldin the general election. Then he beat Kamala while dodging bullets...
’s repeated suggestions that Syria could intervene militarily in Israel’s conflict against the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group in Leb
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
, Sharaa again said that his country had no intention of launching any such operations.
Damascus would instead look to support the Lebanese government in its attempts to disarm Hezbollah, he said, adding that his cabinet was currently discussing ways to help Beirut without military intervention.
They’re barely holding on to their conquests in Syria. Of course I know nothing about equipping and training armies, but I don’t see them able to face even the remnants of Hezbollah for ages yet.
He also declared his firm backing for Beirut to restrict weapons and decision-making power to the state, in an apparent dig at Hezbollah, which again dragged the country into war when it joined the US-Israeli war with Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for
spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
earlier this year by firing rockets and drones into northern Israel.
Trump has repeatedly pushed Syria to intervene militarily in Lebanon, saying that Israel does not know how to fight the Iran-backed terror group "without knocking buildings down," and that "I’m close to giving it over to Syria."
But Sharaa, who has been focused on rebuilding Syria and gaining domestic and international legitimacy since his Islamist forces ousted Assad in late 2024, has consistently rejected the idea of Syrian forces going to war against Hezbollah, a former Assad ally.
In his Sunday interview, he said that any eruption of conflict in Lebanon would necessarily impact Syria, and that any expansion of war could lead to a major regional collapse.
‘Dialogue is growing stronger’: Israel said to boost ties with Mideast nations amid Iran threat
[IsraelTimes] Israel has intensified its communications with various Middle East nations amid the ongoing uncertainty over the direction of the Iran war, with security officials holding frequent conversations with their counterparts to boost defense ties and prepare for the possibility of escalation, Kan news reports.
An unnamed Israeli official tells Kan that during the war that began in February, “Israel was in contact with countries in the region — countries that understood the danger posed by the Iranian regime. Dialogue with those countries is continuing and growing stronger.”
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