Mar 2, 2021
According to the Saudi-owned newspaper “Asharq Al-Awsat,” former President Barack Obama offered the Golan Heights to Syria in exchange for the Assad regime severing ties with Iran and Hezbollah.
By Israel Hayom via JNS
Just a few months before the Syrian civil war erupted in March 2011, the Obama administration offered the Assad regime an Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights in return for severing ties with Iran and Hezbollah, the London-based Arabic newspaper
Asharq Al-Awsat reported on Sunday.
According to the report, which was relayed to the newspaper by senior American and Syrian officials who were involved in the negotiations at the time, the talks reached an advanced stage and the sides had even prepared a document for signing.