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Thursday, October 8, 2020
Assad: Normalization with Israel possible if it returns our lands
Syrian President Bashar Assad says the condition for normalizing relations with Israel is the return of the Golan Heights to his country.
“For three decades we have been extremely clear. For Syria, peace is a matter of restoring rights. We are ready to normalize relations with Israel, but only after we return our land to ourselves,” he tells Russia’s state-owned news agency Rossiya Segodnya.
But “Israel is not ready for this,” he says. “We have seen no Israeli official who is ready to move one step forward toward peace.”
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