There is also the smiling profile of Ahmad Sharaa (Jolani)the self -proclaimed Syrian president, among the faces of the 11 Middle Eastern leaders who stand next to the image, widespread in Israel, of the American president Donald Trump Under the writing: «It’s time for a new Middle East. The Alliance of Abraham “. Raìs Syrian himself, former head of a Qaedist militia still considered “terrorist” by the United States, has been under pressure for weeks because he agrees to make Syria adhere, for decades sworn enemy of Israel and part of the pro-Iranian axis, to the Abraham agreements, that series of pacts signed starting from 2020 to normalize the relationships between the Jewish state and the countries of the region.
Syria and Israel have been in a state of belligerent since their birth as an independent states about 80 years ago. So far to the Abraham agreements – so called in the name of the patriarch of the three monotheistic religions – they have joined United Arab Emirates, Bahrein, Sudan and Morocco. Egypt and Jordan had made peace with Israel respectively in 1979 and 1994. In addition to the Saudi Arabia, already ally of Washington, Syria and Lebanon therefore lacks the appeal, countries where in recent months it has actually dissolved, due to the hard military shots inflicted by Israel in Hezbollah, the entire Iranian system in the Middle East. In view of the historic agreement with Israel, President Sharaa met in recent days the dignitaries of the Syrian regions of Qunaytra and Daraa, in the south-west of the country, invested daily by the military employment and the Israeli incursions.
Israel, who from December to today has zeroed the defense of Syrian areas with over 250 aerial raids, has been working on the close heights of Golan since 1967 and has annexed them with a move recognized only by Trump in 2019. It is unlikely that Israel agrees to retire from the heights in the event of ‘pacè.
While Sharaa met the dignitaries of the Southwest in Damascus, the US correspondent Thomas Barrackhe flew to Riad to ask the Saudis, among the main financiers of the anchoring Syrian government, to put pressure on Jolani to accept normalization with Israel by next August, when the 50/mo anniversary of the first adhesions to the Abraham agreements will be celebrated. Sharaa had already admitted, in early May, who are underway with Israel indirect interviews through the Emirates. And that on the ground there are contacts to contain tensions between the Israeli soldiers and the population of Qunaytra and Daraa.
In mid -May, the Syrian leader had met Trump just in Riad. On that occasion, the American president had announced that he wanted to remove the sanctions from Syria after decades of restrictive measures. These opening thus allowed Qatar and Saudi Arabia to unlock financial aid to Syria, including those for welding the debt that Damascus had contracted with the World Bank over the decades.