For quite a while, discussions have been taking place in Israel regarding the “day after” an arrangement is agreed to on Syria. Israel’s decision-makers have taken into account the possibility that the Russian declaration was the result of contacts and agreements between Putin and US President Barack Obama regarding the partition of Syria into segments. In such a case, said a senior Israeli defense figure to Al-Monitor who requested anonymity, “We must not agree to a new delineation of lines of confrontation and battlefronts. Israel needs to do everything it can to avert the possibility of Hezbollah and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards receiving a permanent presence along the Golan Heights border. That needs to be a clear Israeli redline.”
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