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Syria wants to annex parts of Lebanon in exchange for relinquishing part of the occupied Golan Heights to Israel, Hebrew media reported on July 4.
The reports coming out from Israel, which claim that there are currently two proposals on the table, say that Syria is eyeing city of Tripoli, along with other areas in northern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley the east of the country.
Syria’s Islamist-led Interim Government is demanding the return of one-third of the Golan Heights territory that Israel occupied before the 1974 disengagement agreement, according to the reports.
i24NEWS quote source said to be close to Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa as saying that “the return of parts of the Golan Heights … is critical for domestic public opinion to support such a step”.
The source added that Israel must return one-third of the territory it captured before 1974, stating: “There is no such thing as peace for free.”
In one of the two proposals currently being discussed, Israel would annex one-third of the Golan, return one-third to Syria, and lease the remaining third from Damascus for 25 years.
The second scenario would, however, see Israel keep two-thirds of the Golan Heights and return the remaining third to Syria, also under a potential lease arrangement. In this version, Syria would also be granted control over Tripoli parts of the Bekaa Valley.
According to i24NEWS’ source, Syria wants to restore sovereignty over the Sunni-majority Tripoli, calling it “one of five regions severed from Syria during the French Mandate to establish the Lebanese state”.
This proposed settlement would also involve transferring Tripoli and surrounding predominantly Sunni areas to Syria, in exchange for permitting Israel to construct a pipeline from the Euphrates River as part of a trilateral water-sharing agreement with Turkey and Syria, the source added.
The source also claimed that Sharaa had shown “unprecedented openness” and had opened direct communication channels with Israel for security and military coordination in southern Syria.
He emphasized that reigning parts of the occupied Golan, along with other Syrian territories seized by Israel after the fall of former President Bashar al-Assad last December, was essential for winning domestic support for any peace agreement. Without it, Sharaa could face internal resistance, he warned.
Even if Syria was able to secure the support of many Sunnis in Tripoli, the Lebanese government would never let go of any of its territories. Thus, the execution of any such agreement will require Sharaa to go to war against Lebanon.
Even with support from Israel and the United States, this won’t be an easy task for Syria as the Lebanese, especially Shia, Alawites and Christancs are guaranteed to put on a fight.
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remember when russia wanted to allow ‘part of ukraine’ to vote to join and america said go fuck yourself and built and army to invade said regions? now watch the maggots in support of a zionist terrorist fake government stealing land at gunpoint to benefit a third country that installed said terrorists…
this is why 9/11 should have been investigated by the unsc after the u.$., china and india made their deals to remove the crime scene before it could be investigated… made far worse of course when russia abandoned syria late last year by pulling it’s forces out. china like india had many opportunities to make the me a better place with their vote($)… but instead made that deal with uncle $hmuel 23 years ago for american manufacturing jobs in exchange
… for removing the still smoldering debris from ground zero in lower manhattan… so buckle up… because past is prologue and no one is betting on king $usd any longer which means another epic/epoch false flag will be blamed on the victim “mark” with energy and other resource -yet again… question is: will the briics members be vacating their un seats to begin a new leadership for the betterment of globe before the next 9/11-3/11 combined can happen?….
9/11 did happen again. on 10/6.
only it was even worse!
the teevee said so.
why else wound the orange messiah start 2 more undeclared and illegal m.e. wars and spend over a trillion dollars on munitions and fuel? and lost both! or certainly gained nothing from them…
the usa has veto privilege in the unsc, the unsc will never do anything that uncle sam strongly dislikes, which includes investigating their own false flag self-attacks.
everywhere the shiite fake muslims and their russian minions are losing.
well… hts trying to invade lebanon? that will be precious… hezbollah might take every corner in syria it could… hts syria and aliyev azerbaijan might soon not exist…
iran will wipe off syria and his zionist puppet president just launching hundred of ballistic, cruise missile and drones.
not surprised at all and it’s not because “syria wants”. i’ve already speculated that, if israel gets the south and syria (hts) gets the ne, then the remaining lebanon will be the christian statelet it was always meant to be for the western colonial project.