Trump 'aims to bring Syria into Abraham Accords' with Sharaa's historic White House visit

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : In reality, Israel, Qatar and Turkey now share a tacit objective: the return of Sunni influence in a region long dominated by the Iran-led Shia axis.
54% : Syria has now emerged as both a strategic energy corridor for the United States and a testing ground for regional players such as Israel and Turkey to assert their military power.
49% : To avoid a public outcry, a de facto acceptance of the loss of the Golan Heights could be presented as a "stabilisation agreement" comparable to that of 1974 (the 1974 Agreement on Disengagement provided for a ceasefire in the Golan Heights under the supervision of a UN peacekeeping force.
46% : How can the new Syrian regime satisfy Israel, Qatar and Turkey all at once, when their interests appear so divergent?
44% : Israel, for its part, prefers a centralised and stable Syrian state to a fragmented territory vulnerable to Iranian influence.
43% : Sharaa's visit comes just days after he was taken off Washington's global terrorism blacklist and after the UN Security Council voted to remove sanctions targeting him.
43% : Read moreSyrians in the Golan Heights refuse to leave 'in exchange for peace' with Israel After more than fifty years of authoritarian rule and fourteen years of civil war, the Syrian population is exhausted and more interested in economic stability than nationalist rhetoric.
42% : And could it go so far as to cede the Golan Heights to Israel?
42% : Israel has indicated that there can be no agreement without Syrian recognition of its annexation of the Golan Heights.
38% : Following Assad's fall last year, Israel deemed the agreement "null and void" and moved its forces deeper into Syrian territory).
37% : Sharaa will push for the permanent lifting of sanctions on Syria when he meets with US President Donald Trump, who hopes in return to bring Damascus into the Abraham Accords normalising ties between Israel and several Arab states.
36% : The two leaders are also expected to tackle the thorny subjects of relations with Israel and the stand-off in the occupied Golan Heights, where Israeli forces moved deeper into Syrian territory following the fall of former president Bashar al-Assad.

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