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2026-07-27 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria's Sharaa: Working on security pact with Israel, could lead to comprehensive peace deal
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 Lebanon

Syrian 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 Pencilneck al-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 World in 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 spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
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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Posted by trailing wife 2026-07-27 2026-07-27 02:50|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [264 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Syria/HTS 

1 You are NOT getting the Golan Heights, Ahmed

My Daughter, are you Crying or Laughing...?
When visiting the Golan Heights, and standing on one of the Syrian Bunkers overlooking the Israeli Kibbutzim below, I like to read this song to the people I guide there. This song, written shortly after the Six-Day-War, when the Israel Defence Forces managed to ascend the steep slopes and through the never-ending minefields of the Golan, and take control of these horrifying Syrian positions, that continousely fired on the civilian Israeli population below, forcing my generation of children, who were born in Northern Galilee in the 1950ies & 1960ies to grow-up in Bomb-Shelters. I remember listening to this song over and over again, played on my fathers tape-recorder. I was deeply impressed by this description of a girl my age, not knowing how to react to the distruction of her home, but also to the end of this horror, when the Israelis managed to remove the Syrian Canons from the Golan.

Words: Yovav Katz
Lyrics: David Kribushey
Performed by: Hava Alberstein
Translated by: Benayah Blum


A last Canon-Ball exploded and then became quit
Silence engulfed the Valley
A girl in Gadot went out of a Bomb-Shelter,
And there are no more houses in the Kibbutz.

Mommy, we had a green house
With Daddy and Dolly and a loquat-tree...
The house is gone, and Dad is far away,
My Mother, are you crying or laughing?!

Look up, my Daughter, to the mountain,
The mountain that became a Monster...
There are still Canons, my Child, on the mountain,
But they now threaten Damascus
!

Look up, my Daughter, to the Golan
There are Soldiers there, but from now on -
Their Flag has the colors of Blue and White
Also Daddy cries and laughs there!

We will have a green house, my Child,
With Daddy and Dolly and a loquat-tree...
And no more Fear, My Child, my Child,
My Daughter, are you crying or laughing...?

Sunsets in Red und sunrises in Gold
Meet the Green and the Water.
And without Canons of an Enemy on the Mountain
The Valley shall be twice as green!

The Jordan flows, winding like a Drunk,
The Flowering is kissing the Valley.
And no-one shall turn its waters back,
My Daughter, are you crying or laughing...?

The Jordan flows, passing between banks (=Gadot)
The Flowering is kissing the Valley
And no-one shall turn its waters back,
My Daughter, are you crying or laughing?
My Daughter, are you crying or laughing...?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2026-07-27 17:08||   2026-07-27 17:08|| Front Page Top

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