"The deal that has been on the table for the last several weeks has already been accepted on the Syrian side. It has already been accepted on the American side," Charles Lister, director of the Syria Initiative at the Middle East Institute, said. "Popular opinion on Israel is not great, but the government has made it very clear that it wants to make this deal, that it has accepted a number of concessions that would have been seen as concessions by the Syrian population in order to agree to that deal."
Anticipated Israeli-Syrian pact stalled by domestic disagreement
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Charles Lister, a longtime Syria expert, said while most of the international community has written off the conflict as either frozen or finished, the armed opposition has never given up and has been training for such a scenario for years.
Is Syrian President Bashar Assad's rule at risk of collapse?
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