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2025-07-25 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Israeli and Syrian ministers meet for 1st time since 2000, in US-facilitated dialogue
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[IsraelTimes] Barrack says goal of Paris meeting was ‘de-escalation, and we accomplished precisely that’; Dermer said to represent Israel and al-Qaeda fighter-turned Syrian FM represents Sharaa
Israeli and Syrian officials met in Gay Paree on Thursday together with US special envoy Tom Barrack, the latter announced, in what appeared to be the first time such a sit-down between officials from Jerusalem and members of the new government in Damascus was publicly confirmed.
"I met this evening with the Syrians and Israelis in Gay Paree. Our goal was dialogue and de-escalation, and we accomplished precisely that. All parties reiterated their commitment to continuing these efforts," Barrack tweeted late Thursday. There was no immediate confirmation from either Syrian or Israeli officials.
While the two sides have held indirect talks in recent months aimed at warming tensions, and there have been reports of quiet in-person meetings between Syrian and Israeli officials, those were never confirmed by either side.
Barrack didn’t specify who participated in the Thursday sit-down, but the Axios news site reported that Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer represented the Israeli side and that Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani headed the Syrian side.
The last time such senior Israeli and Syrian officials met was in 2000 when then-US president Bill Clinton
...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of the word is ...
hosted then-prime minister Ehud Barak and then-Syrian foreign minister Farouq al-Sharaa in West Virginia for peace talks.
Saudi media reported on Tuesday that Israel and Syria resumed dialogue on security matters in the wake of deadly sectarian festivities that saw the Israeli strike in Damascus and Syria’s southern Sweida province last week.
According to the Saudi channel al-Hadath, the talks are being mediated by The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
 ...a NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
member, but not the most reliable...
and the United States, and an Israeli delegation is expected to travel soon to Baku, Azerbaijan, to finalize understandings with Syria.
However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
the report also said Israel is not currently committing to halt its strikes in Syria and is demanding a demilitarized zone along the border, as well as a permanent presence in the buffer zone that the military seized after the fall of Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
’s regime in December.
Dermer, a top adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was also expected to meet US special envoy for the Middle East Steve Witkoff on Thursday night in Rome, but that meeting is unlikely to take place after Israel and the US called their negotiators back from Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
ceasefire talks in Doha.
Netanyahu, meanwhile, met in Jerusalem on Thursday with Sheikh Muwaffaq Tarif, the spiritual leader of Israel’s Druze community.
Prior to the strikes last week, Israel and Syria were in "advanced talks" for a deal to halt hostilities, with the Trump administration also pushing the two sides toward full normalization of diplomatic relations.
Israel intervened in Syria’s sectarian conflict earlier this month on behalf of the Druze, who are seen as a loyal minority within Israel and often serve in its military.
Israel accused Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s forces of complicity in deadly attacks by Bedouin tribes against the minority group in the country’s southern Sweida governorate. The week of fighting appeared to end with a ceasefire negotiated by Washington and announced on Saturday.
Though his own fighters have roots in al-Qaeda, including Shaibani, Sharaa has promised to protect members of Syria’s many sectarian minorities. But that pledge has been challenged, first by mass killings of members of Assad’s Alawite sect in March, and now by the latest violence in the southwest. 
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