Gilboa spoke with the Post after KAN reported that officials from a regional country advised another to agree with Israel to \u201clull it to sleep\u201d before an attack.<\/p>\n
Though the countries involved in the alleged plan were unnamed by KAN, as were the foreign sources who informed the Israeli public broadcaster of the alleged scheme, Gilboa had little doubt that such a tactic would fail.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the problem with October 7<\/a>. The trauma is so significant and will last for so long that I don\u2019t think signing peace agreements in the future that require substantial security compromises,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t think that would be possible.\u201d<\/p>\n Doubting that any countries Israel currently has any kind of agreement with would risk offering such advice, Gilboa noted that several countries and armed groups are currently in a state of negotiation with Israel or are being pushed by Washington to begin such talks.<\/p>\n A possible agreement with Damascus has been widely discussed since the fall of the Assad regime, despite interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa\u2019s terrorist history as the leader of the Islamist group Hay\u2019at Tahrir al-Sham and his own history of anti-Israel commentary.<\/p>\n Peace agreement requiring concession of Golan Heights ‘isn’t in the cards,’ Gilboa says<\/p>\n With a peace agreement likely requiring Israel to hand over the strategically vital Golan Heights, something that Gilboa said \u201cisn\u2019t in the cards\u201d for Jerusalem, US President Donald Trump has pushed to see a security agreement between the countries that would not require such a concession.<\/p>\n Gilboa said the rough idea would see Israel withdraw from areas in Syria beyond the 1974 separation line, agreed upon by the Disengagement Agreement, for Damascus to \u201ccommit to some kind of non-belligerence agreement, pledging not to attack Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n Regardless of what Trump may want, Gilboa said he couldn\u2019t see such an agreement materializing because neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a> nor whoever is in power following the upcoming election is likely to withdraw from the territories in exchange for \u201cf commitments that you never know whether the other side will implement or respect.\u201d<\/p>\n On the Lebanon front, where there are discussions and processes in play to perhaps see an Israeli withdrawal, Gilboa said Lebanon had a genuine desire to end the war, even if Hezbollah was focused on creating more instability.<\/p>\n \u201cIf Hezbollah were to disarm, I think there\u2019s a good chance for Israel to take a chance on peace with Lebanon,\u201d he said, adding such a gamble would only be made if the Lebanese Armed Forces can demonstrate its capable of policing Hezbollah in the pilot zones.<\/p>\n Israeli experts say BoP 15-point plan is insufficient\u00a0<\/p>\nEytan Gilboa (credit: BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY)<\/p>\n