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  • Theresa Fallon
    Theresa Fallon “Many people would like to see China play a constructive role, but I think now that we're in the third year of the war, this idea is wearing a bit thin.” 5 hours ago
  • Mahjoob Zweiri
    Mahjoob Zweiri “What we have witnessed in the past few hours is that they talk about an agreement on the first stage. It could be understood that Hamas wants to release itself from the pressure globally, including the United States. So, they are giving concessions on the first stage, which leads to 40 days of ceasefire and exchange of captives. I think 33 old and sick captives. And then moving on to other stages. But we are seeing that we are going back to the main conditions, which means we are still talking about the main principles [complete ceasefire and withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza] that Hamas talked about. As the time of some sort of agreement on the first stage came, the Israeli military and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to say actually, there is no agreement: We will go to Rafah regardless of any agreement. It reflects the divisions within the Israelis and crisis within the Israeli politics. On the other hand, Hamas has been more cautious. They do not want to show real progress made but they also do not want to say things have not changed. I think it's obvious some change has happened otherwise we would not expect [CIA chief] William Burns to be in the region.” 5 hours ago
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#Bashar al-Assad

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“They've got themselves in this terrible position where they're upholding a Syria foreign policy that's based on 10 years of bad assumptions and wrong analysis, which is that Assad [Bashar al-Assad] was going to fall. And how do you back away from that without losing face? You can't. You have to lose face at some level, and you have to hurt your allies that you've built up over 10 years.”

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US-based Syria expert who heads the Center for Middle East Studies at Oklahoma University
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“What we have not done and what we do not intend to do is to express any support for efforts to normalise relations or rehabilitate Mr Assad [Bashar al-Assad] or lifted a single sanction on Syria or changed our position to oppose the reconstruction of Syria, until there is irreversible progress towards a political solution, which we believe is necessary and vital.”

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U.S. Secretary of State
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“What the regime [of Bashar al-Assad] is desperate to achieve is to end the US and EU sanctions and restore diplomatic relations with Arab countries and the west. King Abdullah appears to be putting these on the table and saying 'let's give these to Assad in return for limited behavioural change'. Assad will not engage in a transactional relationship as described in the paper. Instead, he will likely exploit the channels extended to him to undermine whatever leverage the west/Arab states have.”

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Syria watcher close to the Syrian opposition
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