Arabic → English transcript

The 1974 agreement,

the Disengagement Agreement signed by President Hafez al- Assad,

mediated by Kissinger, They should return there. And the Golan is another matter,

meaning either through negotiations,

And President Hafez al- Assad had started negotiations with them,

meaning Farouk al- Sharaa was in talks with Barak, What's his name,

Al- Moallem and Webb Limitation were holding talks with...

And they were reaching an agreement,

but they disagreed on the area east of the lake. East of the lake,

in the armistice agreement,

Israel has 10 meters east of the lake, But we were right on the lake.

Meaning the villages, I know them, I've been there, like Al- Naqib al- Arabiya, Al-

Kursi, Al- Douka, Al- Husseiniya, Umm Hajar, all of these are adjacent to the lake.

And there are farmers there who grow, who grow vegetables,

And in this area they grow early vegetables, they call them winter crops,

cucumbers, tomatoes, Green beans and so on,

which don't grow in other areas because it's a valley area, you see?

I remember I went back to the Sykes- Picot Agreement, we have half of the lake,

half of Lake Tiberias, but where is it located? It was held by the French and

the British, they wouldn't give it up. So Hafez al- Assad told them,'

I want the farmer to put his foot in the lake.'

And the Syrians, of course, did not back down.

The Israelis wanted to push the Syrians back about 500 meters east of the lake.

With 500 meters,

all those villages I told you about would be gone,

because they are right on the lake, and they have farms, for example. There is

Fouad al- Youssef.