President Trump’s deal-making trip to the Middle East, more precisely at the US-Saudi Investment Forum in Riyadh in mid-May 2025, was a multi-purpose trip. First, Saudi Arabia signed a $142 billion arms deal with the US and pledged an additional $600 billion in American investments. That’s deal-making at its best.
Second, during his Saudi stay, Mr. Trump unexpectedly announced lifting all sanctions on Syria.
This is the first time in close to 50 years that Washington leaves Syria free of sanctions. US sanctions in Syria began in 1979. It looks like a monumental shift in US policy in the Middle East. A shift towards Middle East stability?
On the same occasion, President Trump shakes hand with Syria’s Interim President, Ahmad al-Sharaa, initiating one of the most “controversial” policy moves the US have made in the past decades.
Who is Syria’s Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa?
Born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to a Syrian Sunni Muslim family from the Golan Heights, he grew up in Syria’s capital, Damascus. Al-Sharaa joined al-Qaeda in Iraq shortly before the 2003 invasion of Iraq and fought for three years in the Iraqi insurgency.
So, Mr. Ahmad al-Sharaa, is an al-Qaeda fighter. Al-Qaeda was created by the US in 1988 in Peshawar, Pakistan. Al-Qaeda was founded as a pan-Islamist militant terrorist organization led by Sunni jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic caliphate. A later off-spring of al-Qaeda is ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria).
Syria’s current president, Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, was until recently regarded by the US as a senior figure in Al-Qaeda – with a $10 million bounty once placed on his head. No more. Friendship with Mr. Trump is overarching every previous accusation. Mr. al-Sharaa has promised to dismantle the IS (former ISIS) in Syria for better control.
Source: US Embassy Syria
Logically, Mr. Trump is friendly with one of their own (their – meaning the United Sates of America), who fought in Iraq as a counter-terrorist and started his career now in Syria in a similar fashion, but always at the behest of Washington.
What he has done for the US in Syria, making Syria a US friendly place, must be rewarded accordingly. Elimination of sanctions – which are against international law as well as against the Charter of the UN – is just a natural occurrence.
You may say that overall, this is a great move for stability in the Middle East. It allows the Saudis and Emirates to start rebuilding Syria, which was previously not allowed under the sanction regime.
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Is there maybe another yet unspoken agenda behind this sanction-lifting and sudden friendliness with Syria? If there is ground for a question there usually is a good reason.
Could it be that stability in the region, especially in Syria, is an asset for Zionist Israel’s plans of expansion towards Greater Israel?
When there is no more fighting, not internally nor against Syria’s neighbors, Israel must be happy. Israel’s way of infiltrating and gradually taking over Syria as a major junk of her Greater Israel dream (with enormous hydrocarbon resources), is made so much easier and without armed interference.
Because one thing is for sure, this Zionist plan of Greater Israel, supported by the US, is not going away and is part and parcel of the genocide in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon. As long as the Saudis and Emirates rebuild Syria – it is cost-saving for Zionist Israel later, when they are fully in control of Syria.
Trump has been supporting Netanyahu with arms and is being increasingly criticized for it at home. So, the new strategy is a “diplomatic” support for an even faster expansion of Israel, by making Syria a “peaceful”, even friendly place for the US and friends of the US like Israel.
Just think about it.
The original source of this article is Global Research.
