While dust is still settling after the 12-day war between Iran, Israel and the US, diplomacy is increasing in the Middle East.
According to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “victory [over Iran] The peace agreement opens the way to dramatically increase the agreement. ,
Already, new Hoarding The Arab leaders including Lebanon and Syrian Presidents in Israel include US President Donald Trump at the Center, “The Abraham alliance: It’s Time for a New Middle East” with the words, including the Presidents of the Lebanon and Syrians.
The word “Abraham Accords” was coined in 2020 for diplomatic generalization deals between Israel and several Arab countries in 2020, discovered as United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan.
However, it is more fragile to make a relationship with Syria or Lebanon.
“The signature of the Abraham Agreement was never in the struggle, where Israel and Lebanon, and Israel and Syria are in a decades struggle,” the Middle East and North Africa program Associate Fellow at London -based Chautham House, Neel Quillium, told DW.
“And that struggle remains hot,” he said.
Can Syria be in queue for a peace agreement with Israel?
Since 1967, Syria and Israel have been in war. That year, Israel captured a strategic plateau on the border with Syria, a Golan Heights, which was later annexed. The United Nations never recognized the move, but the US recognized the region as Israel in 2019, during the first presidential post of Donald Trump.
The current Syrian President Ahmed Al-Shra led the coalition of militia, who overthrew the country’s long-term dictator Bashar Asad, in December 2024, Israeli soldiers expanded their presence on the Syrian side of the 1974 armory line.
Despite repeated attacks on the Syrian ground with the Israeli army in Syria, US President Trump is rapidly emphasizing for a possible security agreement between Israel and Syria.
On Wednesday, the Syrian State TV reported that “it was impossible to talk about a new agreement on a new agreement, fully followed the 1974 disgest agreement and the field has taken place.”
Therefore, Syrian American special envoy Tom Barrack told Turkish news agency Anadolu that Syrian President Ahmed al-Shra “has indicated that he does not hate Israel and wants peace on that border.”
Israel’s Foreign Minister Gidon Sar had already said that his country was interested in adding Syria to the Abraham agreement. However, he emphasized that “the control of Golan Heights will be part of the state of Israel under any future peace agreement”.
For Fellow Berku Ozelic, a senior research for the Middle East Security at the London -based think tank Royal United Services Institute, it can all poin to a small, alwork cellicant step.
“Even an early non-aggression agreement, less than a comprehensive disposal between Syria and Israel, will be a game changer in the region,” he told DW.
“Although it may now seem remote, diplomatic backchainling in recent months has focused on stages that can be done through the relief of restrictions through Syria’s economic recovery, ensuring that it may be a victim of resurrection of violence associated with Iran, and is a dickonflusion talks between Turkey and Israel.”
“All this supports us in Syria and the effigies of stabilization for the Syrian Syrian people,” said Ozeselic.
Can Lebanon become a peace partner?
Meanwhile, the Neel Quilium did not chant any chanting for a peace agreement with the Israeli neighbor in the north. “Lebanese President Eon and the political class around him cannot give peace as there will be a lot of domestic opposition inside the country,” he told DW.
After Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, Iran -backed Hizbullah militia, whose military wing, is considered a terrorist group by several major players, including the US and the European Union, began attacking Israel from the south of Lebanon.
After some 12 mons of the clashes, the situation increased in an eight -week war. Israel reduced Hizbullah’s dominance, while over 3,000 people were killed and large parts of the suburbs of South and Berut of Lebanon were heavy in the fire of Israel.
While a ceasefire ended in January 2025, most of the attacks stopped, certain conditions related to the deal, discovery of Israeli soldiers and the deployment of Lebanese Armed Forces in the south is yet to be deployed.
Quillium said, “Israel is still at five hilltop posts in the country and continues to strike goals in Beirut,” so saying “there is no about to dissect Hizbullah.”
What is the American agenda behind its push for peace?
In addition to recently lifting the sanctions of Syria on Syria by the United States, talking about the desire of more peace deals with Syria and Lebanon, apart from the US, mirror for efforts supported by the Trump administration. And the head of the Qatar chief, “Kelly Petilo, the Middle East researcher in the European Council told foreign relations, DW said.
“Donald Trump is of the idea of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize by bringing peace in the Middle East,” he said, “Lack of nuclear deal with Iran or Gaza ceasefire, America is now trying to achieve this through Abraham’s expansion.”
However, she looks at issues with Trump’s course.
Petilo said, “No one is ready to include Israel’s maximalist instinct, resulting in huge human pain not only in neighboring countries, but also in the possible damage of the region in Syria and Lebanon.”
Lebanon and Syria are another significant stumble with both Quilium of Chautham House and Pillo of ECFR.
“To be honest, Trump does not have any diplomatic skills, nor clearly, originally, individually cares for reaching a compromise to bring these vision together,” Petilo said.
“Trump is not a peacemaker,” Cuilium agrees. “Trump’s mid -diplomacy paper over crack.”
Edited by: Jess Smi
