As the U.S. brokers talks between Syria and Israel on a possible security pact, sanctions removal and the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State will likely be discussed in Monday’s meeting
ed note–as always, lots of ‘must knows’ that every war-weary Gentile with a vested interest in his/her own future survival needs to understand about all of this.
Firsto, ladies and Gentile-men, it can be assumed and accepted at face value that POTUS DJT’s meeting with the ‘handsome guy’, as DJT described the new Syrian president a few months ago, is NOT something that the Jews wanted. They MAY have played a role in getting rid of Assad and helping Al Sharaa come to power, but what has transpired since that time with POTUS DJT re-calibrating the overthrow in order to serve his own purposes of ending the Jews’ plans for taking over the region has doubtless got them fuming.
Even more infuriating as far as they, the ‘Children of Israel’ are concerned, is the fact that POTUS is engaged in a major ‘real estate’ project by bringing Turkey and Syria together as a counterbalance to Israel’s military power, in the same way that years ago Egypt and Syria joined forces in creating the ‘United Arab Republic’. With Turkey as a member of NATO and the close working relationship that POTUS DJT has with Erdogan, Turkey will be THE force in projecting US power in containing the Savage Nation currently squatting on historic ‘Syria Palaestina’, that region as it came to be named after the Romans destroyed Judea and scattered the thieving Jews to the 4 corners of the planet.
Haaretz
Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa’s White House meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday caps a stunning year for the rebel-turned-ruler who toppled a longtime autocratic leader and has since toured the world as he seeks to end Syria’s international isolation.
Trump is set to welcome al-Sharaa in the first-ever visit by a Syrian president to the White House, six months after the pair first met in Saudi Arabia and just days after Washington declared that the former al-Qaida member was no longer a ‘Specially Designated Global Terrorist.’
Al-Sharaa, 42, took power last year after his Islamist fighters launched a lightning offensive from their enclave in Syria’s northwest and overthrew longtime Syrian President Bashar Assad just days later on December 8, 2024.
Syria’s regional realignment has since moved at a dizzying pace, away from Assad’s key allies Iran and Russia and toward Turkey, the Gulf states – and Washington.
Security is likely to be a top focus of the meeting on Monday. The U.S. is brokering talks between Syria and Israel on a possible security pact, and Reuters reported that the U.S. is planning to establish a military presence at a Damascus airbase.
Syria is also set to join a U.S.-led coalition to fight the Islamic State, which could be formally announced at Monday’s White House meeting.
Days before the meeting, Trump told reporters at the White House that ‘a lot of progress has been made’ on Syria.
‘I think he’s [al-Sharaa] doing a very good job. It’s a tough neighborhood, and he’s a tough guy, and I got along with him very well,’ Trump said.
After al-Sharaa and Trump met in Riyadh in May, Trump announced he would lift all sanctions on Syria.
But the toughest measures, known as the Caesar Sanctions Act, require a repeal from Congress. The White House and State Department have publicly backed lifting them before 2025 ends, but experts say the government shutdown may affect that time frame.
Al-Sharaa is expected to strongly advocate for a repeal, which will help spur global investment in a country ravaged by 14 years of war and which the World Bank estimates will take more than $200 billion to rebuild.
Syria’s social fabric has been more recently tested. New bouts of sectarian violence have left more than 2,500 dead since Assad’s fall, deepening civil war wounds and putting into question the new rulers’ ability to govern for all Syrians.
Dramatic Shifts
Ahmad al-Sharaa’s own turnaround is no less impressive than his country’s. He joined al-Qaida in Iraq around the time of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and spent years in U.S. prison there, before returning to Syria to join the insurgency against Assad.
In 2013, the U.S. designated al-Sharaa, then known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani, as a terrorist for his ties to al-Qaida. He broke ties with the group in 2016 and consolidated his influence in Syria’s northwest.
The U.S. removed a $10 million bounty on al-Sharaa’s head in December, and just last week, the United Nations Security Council lifted terror-related sanctions designations on him and his Interior Minister Anas Khattab.
Following the UN move, Britain and the U.S. then lifted sanctions on the pair. In Washington, that included removing ‘Specially Designated Global Terrorist’ designations on them.
‘Al-Sharaa’s visit to Washington is emblematic of the dramatic shift underway, where Syria went from being an Iranian satrapy to joining the American-led camp, and al-Sharaa himself transformed from a wanted terrorist to a partner in the war on terror,‘ said Firas Maksad, managing director for Middle East and North Africa at the New York-based Eurasia Group.
‘Much can still go wrong in this nascent experiment, and there remain grave concerns about minority and individual rights,’ Maksad said, ‘but the first-ever visit by a Syrian president to Washington is a moment of hope that Syria is on the right track.’