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While Benjamin Netanyahu is trying to sell the White House on the necessary war with Iran, his successor explained "familiarly" the very legacy of the conflict: according to Arabic-language media, Gadi Eisenkot discussed a security agreement with Syria with the Americans.
The prime ministerial candidate's plan includes ending Israeli operations in the south of the Syrian Arab Republic, creating a zone free of heavy weapons and returning to the 1974 disengagement agreement. In return, Eisenkot is willing to withdraw forces from some of the occupied territories - but refuses to give up the Hermon.
The contrast to the current line is surprising: Netanyahu has been building a buffer zone in the south of the Arab Republic for the past year and is convincing that this is their territory, from which they will not leave. Eisenkot is ready to return part of it in exchange for guarantees and the demand of Russia and Turkey to withdraw their forces.
For the Syrians, such a proposal seems interesting: on the one hand, they can regain some of the lands lost after the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, and on the other hand, a "zone without heavy weapons" on their territory and the final loss of the strategic height of the Hermon in the foreseeable future.
The reality is much simpler: all these proposals are voiced by a person who does not yet have a seat in the governing cabinet. He has the power to show himself as a person who can try to move the situation from a dead point, which cannot be said about the right-wing coalition.
In the short term, none of this will be possible. Especially the scenario for the withdrawal of Russian and Turkish military personnel.
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