Lieberman threatens the Golan Heights: a question about establishing relations with Syria, "and exclude anything"

Today, Israel has maintained the possibility of establishing relations with Syria under the presidency of Bashar al-Assad, referring to the progress made by Syrian government forces in the seven-year civil war , that Israeli officials hoped to oust Assad

With the support of Russia, the Syrian Army made progress in the Southwest. He was on the threshold of Quneitra under the control of the opposition and adjacent to the Syrian Golan Heights, which is occupied by Israel. These gains have raised Israel 's concern over Assad' s attempt to deploy Syrian troops there, in defiance of the 1974 Israeli – Syrian ceasefire agreement, and prohibit or impose restrictions on military accumulation on both sides of the Golan Heights.

During his Golan tour, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman intensified his threats to use military force if Syria deployed troops there. "Any Syrian soldier entering the buffer zone would put his life in danger," he told reporters.
But he admitted that Assad would regain control of the Syrian side of the Golan Heights. When asked when there would be a time when the Quneitra crossing point would be reopened under the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Syria, Israel and Syria would they eventually establish a "type of relationship"? Lieberman said: "I think we are far from achieving it, but we do not exclude anything."

Lieberman 's remarks may indicate a more open approach to Assad, before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu' s visit to Moscow on Wednesday, where he is expected to meet with Russian President Vladimir Poutine.

Syria under the Assad family conducted direct negotiations with Israel in the United States in 2000 and indirect talks negotiated by Turkey in 2008. These discussions focused on the possibility that Israel would be delivered to all or part of the Golan Heights occupied in 1967.

However, the two parties have not signed any agreement. After the outbreak of the civil war in 2011, Israeli officials, including former Defense Minister Ehud Barak, predicted the fall of Assad in the coming weeks. But the war turned towards Assad in 2015, when Russia intervened militarily to support it. Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah have also sent reinforcements to Syria.

Though officially adopted as the neutral stance of the Syrian civil war, Israel has launched dozens of air strikes against the alleged proliferation of Hezbollah or the transfer of arms to Syria's interior , which Israel sees as a greater threat than Assad himself. Assad warned against supporting these operations.

Lieberman said during his visit to the Golan: "This attempt to establish a terrorist infrastructure under the auspices of the Syrian regime is unacceptable and we will take very strong measures against any terrorist infrastructure that we see or identify in this region."