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Damascus governor: ‘We have no fear toward Israel… there exists a people who want coexistence’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIn an interview with NPR said to be on behalf of Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, the governor of Damascus says the newly-installed government wants to have good relations with Israel.
Maher Marwan says that Israel’s initial trepidation after the fall of former president Bashar al-Assad was “natural.”
“Israel may have felt fear,” he says. “So it advanced a little, bombed a little, etc.”
“We have no fear towards Israel, and our problem is not with Israel,” he says. “There exists a people who want coexistence. They want peace. They don’t want disputes.”
“We want peace, and we cannot be an opponent to Israel or an opponent to anyone,” he says.
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