The Israeli-Syria backstage contacts for a settlement of their border disputes are heading for a dead end. Developments are expected after the Tremp-Netanian meeting.

Shortly before Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech was concluded yesterday at the UN General Assembly, Reuters reported that negotiations between Israel and Syria to settle their border disputes in southern Syria are in a deadlock. The cause of yesterday’s impasse was allegedly the request of Israel to set up a permanent “humanitarian corridor” from its territory to the South Syrian province, where it resides in a compact population.

This is the latest development of a series of contacts launched backstage by US diplomacy in recent months and took place in Baku, Paris and London between Israel and Syria, with main interlocutors of Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs, Ron Dermer, Ron Dermer. However, everything shows that the State Department considers that the margin of this year’s UN General Assembly has the right momentum to “close” a border arrangements between Israel and Syria, which could even be seized by a spectacular trilateral meeting.

What does Syria seek

The main demand of the Syrian government is to withdraw Israeli troops who settled in the dead zone of Golan Heights and southern Syria since early December 2024, as soon as the Assad regime collapsed. It also calls for the return of the international peacekeeping power to the dead zone and reject any thoughts on the autonomy of the Drouz – a fact that would encourage centrifugal tendencies of the Kurds and Alawites in the Northern Syrian provinces. The main argument of Damascus is that his status has removed the presence of Iran from the Syrian territory-and therefore “Israeli concerns about his safety are no longer explained,” as President al-Sarah has said.

What is Israel seeking

On the contrary, Israel has not been convinced that the al-Saras regime completely controls Syria and, as a result, any agreement with the current Damascus government may create a new accomplishment that will cause new dangers to Israeli security when Syria will experience new regimes. On the basis of this criterion, the Israelis are calling for a ban on flight and a ban on the presence of Syrian military forces in southern Syria. They also reject the idea of ​​withdrawing the Israeli army from the dead zone – and certainly not from the Syrian Golan Heights – and finally, it is sought to give widespread autonomy to the Drouzas of the Sueida province, by putting them under its protection.

At the same time, in the field, Israeli military penetration has already achieved the formation of a Drouzian militia, with a capacity of about a thousand mercenaries, led by local Sheikh Hikmat al-Hitzri in the Sueida province, who had announced the “25th” of southern Syria – a move that was postponed “to younger”, apparently after Israeli prompts and assurances.

‘Intense backdrop

However, despite the many ominous developments, Israel-Syrias are typically allegedly continuing, first and foremost not to displease American mediators-and as they all show, at the critical meeting of the Trump-Netanian, 29th and 29th, 29th and 29th). Israel-Syria “ping-pong”, which probably cannot continue indefinitely.