Israel Sees Sykes-Picot Borders as ‘Meaningless’ & ‘Will Go Where They Want’: Trump Envoy
30th August 2025
Israel is not interested in adhering to the Middle East’s established borders set by the WWI Sykes-Picot agreement and has the “capacity or the desire” to take over Lebanon and Syria, according to US special envoy Tom Barrack.
Barrack made the assessment in an astonishing and candid interview with online personality Mario Nawfal, which went online late on Thursday. It was just one of many insights that Barrack, who is at the center of US diplomacy in the region, shared. In addition, he said that Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa will not sign the Abraham Accords with Israel and alluded to deeply strained ties between Egypt and Israel, which he said are no longer “talking to each other or cooperating”.
Israel realizes that this is a unique moment in history in which they can actually accomplish the things that they have long wanted to do but were undermined by pusillanimous U.S. administrations and Deep State foreign affairs bureaucrats. Trump has turned on the No More Mister Nice Guy sign and the Israelis are striking while the iron is hot.