Former Israeli official: Peace with Lebanon possible immediately

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00:00But just on the issue of normalization between Israel and Syria and Lebanon,

00:04what sort of a time frame would you imagine we'd be looking at here?

00:09Are we talking months or years, do you think?

00:12Well, as I don't know the details and what happened behind the scenes,

00:16I can only make a guess.

00:18I hope intelligent one, but not informed one.

00:21It does not need a long time.

00:23If with Lebanon, where there is no problem on borderline,

00:27it can be done immediately if Lebanon is ready and able to control its own land,

00:32and Israel definitely is, it can be done immediately.

00:36You know, there were years ago when we had the open gates between Lebanon and Israel.

00:40Lebanese people came to work in Israel.

00:42It all collapsed after that, unfortunately, in 2006 and so forth.

00:46With Syria it has never been the case, but it can be done if there's an agreement.

00:50There is a will, you see.

00:51It's quite abnormal.

00:53A country that's neighboring me and I'm neighboring them,

00:55why can't we see each other?

00:57After all, yes, there's war and problem,

00:59but if there is no war and if there's a readiness and will to know each other,

01:03both countries or all countries can benefit from it.