A meeting between representatives from the US, Russia and Jordan will take place soon in Amman, to discuss the situation in the de-escalation zones in Syria, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told reporters on Wednesday, according to TASS. The announced meeting is the latest proof of Russia’s decision to embrace the new realities in the Syrian theater and to dump its strategic partnership with Iran and Turkey.
Back in the summer of 2017, Israeli and other media poked fun at Prime Minister Netanyahu for having become irrelevant in the Syrian conflict, as the “relevant” regional powers—Russia, Iran, and Turkey—met in Kazakhstan to hammer out a proposal that would end the civil war in Syria by, essentially, divvying it up among them. The plan, designed with no Israeli input, called for creating four so-called de-escalation zones under the control of Russia, Turkey and Iran.
One of those zones was supposed to be handed over to Iran, which was planning to rule over the rebel-controlled south, along the Syrian border with Israel and Jordan. It meant that Israel would have been forced to accept the Iranian army with its terrorist proxies some three miles from its Golan Heights border.
In the year or so since that low point in Israel’s influence over things up in Syria, the IDF has hit Iran’s assets repeatedly, killing many of its expedition forces and establishing an insurmountable military dominance over the Islamic Republic’s forces, forcing them to realize the enormous technological gap between themselves and the Jewish State’s military.
Also, as the NY Times revealed last week based on Pentagon documents, back in Feb. 7, in a small outpost next to a Conoco gas plant, near the city of Deir al-Zourwere, in one of the single bloodiest battles the American military has faced in Syria, 200 to 300 of the attacking fighters— including Russian mercenaries—were killed, and none of the team of about 30 Delta Force soldiers and Rangers and Kurdish and Arab forces were harmed.
Russia has realized that it is outgunned in Syria and would never be able to realize its ambition to rely on Turkey and Iran to extend its control over that country. Russian officials have already called for “all foreign forces” to leave Syrian territory, which technically includes the US and Turkey, but really means Iran.
Now Russia is invested in finding new means of holding on to its base in Syria, because it has no intention of ever leaving. What Moscow appears to be doing is switch its bet to different horses.
“The meeting will take place in Amman,” Bogdanov said, noting: “We are ready at any level. We are ready to hold such a meeting at any level acceptable to our partners.”
According to TASS, the senior diplomat noted that the Jordanian side had initially suggested a ministerial level for the meeting. “Our minister was fully ready for this contact,” he said, adding that a response from the American side is currently expected.
And just like that, the conflict in Syria might come to a halt, with Turkey controlling the areas near its border, the Russians supporting the regime along the coast, the US and the Kurds controlling the eastern part of the country, and Israel maintaining a military no-man’s zone along its north-eastern border.
It’s a status quo that could last a hundred years.
Rothschild Palwin wine numbers? There are all sorts of conjecture as to the reason for the numbers. An original guess was that they relate to the bus numbers that used to pass Whitechapel in London’s East End. It was certainly popular with the new immigrants from Eastern Europe, who found identifying numbers easier than reading the labels
@ Bear Klein:
http://rense.com/general18/rothschildslandon.htm
Between 1891 and 1894, Baron Edmond James de Rothschild purchased around 150,000 dunams of land in the Golan and the Hawran for Jewish settlement.[49] Legal and political permits were secured and ownership of the land was registered in late 1894
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golan_Heights
https://godssecret.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/israel-owns-the-golan/
@ david melech:
That is very interesting. I have never read that before. Do you have any historical references?
Almost all of the Golan almost to Damascus is legally owned by rothchilds he willed the the ownership papers to Israel land authority who passed the deeds onto j n f who now shrug their shoulders and say give money not deeds.
What is vital is that Israel has demonstrated in word and deed that Iran will NOT be allowed to setup shot in Syria in a way to threaten Israel’s security. If the US does stay in Eastern Syria this will effectively cut off the Iranians from a direct military threat to Israel.
I expect the same to occur with the Hezis.
So Israel did not enter the Syrian war and watched the Shia’s and Sunnis kill each other there. ISIS has as a state like entity been nullified and now it is time for Iran to be scaled back.
The USA sanctions are already curtailing the Iranian oil and gas revenues. Iran is suffering from a drought of Biblical proportions and their economy is poor people are rioting.
Saudi Arabia is working quietly to put pressure on Iran in Iraq. The battle for control of Iraq is important and Iran will stop at nothing to not lose influence. They are already killing politicians opposed to them.
At this point in time at looks like Bibi’s strategy of engaging both Russia and the USA to consider Israel’s security needs in Syria maybe paying off. Strength always has it benefits and the IDF is stronger than the Iranian military. Iran’s biggest threats are the Hezis and the disruption to daily Israeli life that can be stirred up from Gaza.
@ Bear Klein:
I suppose you mean the outer edge of the “no-mans zone”. In that case you would be correct. It should bring Israel close to where they were at the end of the 6 Day War, perhaps past it. The more land Israel takes the better. It will be a buffer, as well as make up a tiny bit for what we were swindled out of by Churchill and the British in the Mandate “arrangement” they made with France about the Mesopotamia oil..
@ Edgar G.:
The writer was talking about the new defacto borders within what was Syria.
Israeli – Syria borders we could possibly need to expand them if we can not keep a demilitarized zone north of our Golan border.
@ Bear Klein:
The present Syrian border has lasted over 50 years so far, with relatively little trouble. But, you are right. Everything could explode tomorrow. In the Middle East, there are no guarantees of peace and quiet. Except by the “sword”, or in Israel’s case, by the IDF and IAF.
David Israel is predicting defacto borders for 100 years anywhere in the middle east. Really?