Netanyahu's deal .. Is a pave the way to Assad's installation?

Mohamed Mohsen Wedd - Occupied Jerusalem

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli analysts say the spate - which Israel witnesses following the release of Syrian detainees - that followed the handover of the remains of Israeli soldier Zakharia Baumel, who was buried near Damascus, was about the timing of the deal.

In addition, analysts say that Netanyahu is unique in the decision to hand over detainees to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, without the involvement of cabinet ministers or members of the Cabinet of Ministers for Security and Politics (Capnet).

On April 4, Netanyahu announced the return of Baumel's remains as part of a secret operation called "a sad melody", in which the prosecution denied that this was done under a deal with the Assad regime.

But the newspaper Haaretz confirmed that Netanyahu secretly agreed with Russian President Vladimir Putin to implement after winning the election "a gesture of goodwill" towards the Syrian regime.

Good intentions
The Israeli security establishment, late in the so-called gesture of "good will", told Netanyahu to release Syrian detainees held in prisons. The agreement between Netanyahu and Putin is likely to come when they met earlier this month in Moscow to complete the handover of the soldier's remains.

Israeli analysts do not rule out the idea that the release of Syrian detainees came late at the request of the Russians, after the anger of the Assad regime after Russian troops removed the remains of Baumel from a cemetery near Yarmouk camp and handed over to Tel Aviv.

Analysts believe that what happened was a deal under the supervision of Moscow, and that it paves the way for strengthening cooperation and coordination between Putin and Netanyahu in Syria to ensure the interests of the Assad regime, and in the opinion of these, the "deal" establishes a new phase of cooperation towards future deals and the possibility of reaching understandings between Tel Aviv and Damascus And solving the problems between them by a Russian to ensure the survival of Assad rule.

Smuggling and infiltration
According to Israeli media, Zidane Tawil, 57, was born in the village of al-Khader in the Syrian Golan Heights. He was arrested by an Israeli army patrol in early July 2008 after he was arrested hundreds of meters from the ceasefire line in the Golan. The Israeli public is charged with drug trafficking and was sentenced to 11 years in prison and was due to finish his sentence and release him in July.

The other released, Khamis Ahmed, is a Palestinian who was born in 1984 in the Yarmouk Refugee Camp near Damascus and a member of the Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah). He was arrested in April 2005 for allegedly attempting to infiltrate an IDF military base in the occupied Golan.

Ahmed was convicted on security charges and sentenced to 18 years in prison. He was expected to end his sentence in 2023. During his stay in Israeli prisons he married a Palestinian girl from the Hebron district. The authorities refused to deport him to the West Bank and handed him over to the Syrian regime through the Red Cross.

Compensation for the lion
"The belief that Putin will not sooner or later ask Tel Aviv to contribute to his humanitarian gestures is naive, since Moscow does not believe in free gifts. The Russians dictated the timetable themselves to complete the deal by releasing the detainees," said Amos Harel, a military analyst in Haaretz. That weekend by Putin's envoy to Syria. "

According to the military analyst, the Israeli interpretation of the resolution is Assad's pressure on Putin, who tried to cover up the embarrassing embarrassment of Assad at a joint news conference with Netanyahu in Moscow, saying "the operation was shared with the Syrian army" Showed that Tel Aviv and Moscow could do what they wanted in Syria, so the release of detainees was required as compensation for the lion.

The main reason for Israel's approval of Putin's request - apart from the need to maintain relations with Russia - is thought to be the ongoing efforts to locate the other missing members of the battle of Sultan Yacoub, the two soldiers Yehuda Katz and Tsvi Feldman. Tel Aviv assumes that the two bodies are buried in Syria and that the intentions The goodwill towards Russia will be required to stimulate the Syrian desire at least not to confuse research.

"The release of the Syrian detainees is a necessary step not only to calm Assad, but to confirm that Moscow is the title of any future deals to locate missing persons," he concluded.

Timing and Resolution
"Netanyahu's election" is the title of an article written by Shamir Meir, a political analyst specializing in Arab affairs in Yediot Ahronot newspaper, in which she reviewed the timing of the return of Baumel's remains in conjunction with the Knesset elections and the subsequent release of Syrian detainees.

"It could be described as a deal or gesture of goodwill, but not bad, bringing the remains of Baumel and burying Israel before the elections in return for the release of two Syrian prisoners, one of which is supposed to be launched within two months."

She believes that despite the Israeli debate over the "deal," Israel's "goodwill" could help release Syrian detainees in further steps related to missing persons and prisoners of war, and motivate the Syrian regime to continue to help the future, as well as to invest in relations with Putin.

"A few weeks passed, the elections were resolved and it turned out that there was a price and a parallel to Baumel's stacks. It is likely that everything is coincidental, but the army could not have been forced to rush to grant approval for a political move," Meir said. At such a sensitive political time, especially when it is clear that the majority of vague and hidden things have been revealed. "