Discussion on Israel-Syria Relations

Consider ice, uh, Barack Arabi, Avram Axias. About the issue of Israel. Um, you talked about the negotiations, and as you know, the Israeli society, uh, has been traumatized by the events of October seventh. Uh, I want to ask you first

if you understand those concerns of ordinary Israelis, and what's your message to the Israeli public opinion, Israeli people, not the politicians? I understand what happened in the seventh of October, uh, for some of the innocent, uh, people. But at the same time, uh,

w-- it is not possible that all policies, uh, are set based on an incident that happened in history. Because at the same time, we need to understand what happened in Gaza, and more than seventy thousand people have been killed there, and so many children, women,

uh, have been killed and are being killed there. Uh, so, uh, what, uh, uh... It's not appropriate that what happened in the seventh of October, uh, set the policy, uh, for Syria. This is, uh, not, uh, logical, and this, uh, brings more, uh, uh, security threats. So if you want to protect your own security,

so you need to respect the security of others. So, uh, now we have a change in Syria. Uh, uh, or sorry, uh, uh, Israel needs to change its policy because it is creating problems around it in order to maintain security, and this is not working with them. So they need to change, uh,

their security, uh, their policy. Uh, so, uh, uh, there should be a mutual respect, uh, and, uh, good economy and trade, uh, relations and mutual respect with other countries. I believe that is the good track to go through.

Uh, I believe there were, uh, some, uh, policies, uh, that Israel is creating, uh, problems to Israel rather than securing Israel, because it is, uh, in-- destabilizing, uh, areas around it, and it is, uh, leading to those, uh, threats. I believe the region should be safe in order to, uh, help

that everybody feels safe and secure, so the Israeli citizens as well feel that they are safe. Why Syria has been, uh, bombed over two years every day? There are, uh, indiscriminate arrests that are taking place in Syria. Even the presidential palace have been, uh, bombed twice by

the Israeli army. Our airports are being, uh, bombed, uh, as well as all the, uh, military, uh, airports that we have. Will that bring security to the, uh, uh, Israeli citizen? Uh, look at the relations that we have in Syria with the United States, with the UK, with the Gulf States, Iraq and

Lebanon. They are successful, and they are not, uh... Those relations are not successful with Re- with Israel. So I believe the problem is with Israel, not with Syria.