As Türkiye, the Gulf countries and the United States prepare to invest in Syria’s reconstruction, Haaretz wrote that Israel should focus on reaching a security agreement with Damascus to avoid being left out of the process. The analysis said that the government of Binyamin Netanyahu could be excluded from the region’s transformation process if it continued its confrontational stance toward the administration of Ahmed Şara.
It was stated that the United States’ removal of Syria from its “terrorism” list, where it had been since 1979, cleared the way for investments. Saudi Arabia has pledged more than 5 billion dollars in investment, while Qatar is interested in rebuilding Damascus Airport, and the United Arab Emirates in projects involving the Damascus metro and the Port of Tartus. Türkiye and Syria also aim to increase their trade volume to 10 billion dollars.
Why it matters
This development is turning Syria’s reconstruction from merely an economic issue into an area where regional relations will be re-established. The United States’ decision to remove Syria from its list is important because it reduces the political and legal obstacles facing infrastructure projects planned with Gulf capital; for this reason, the process directly concerns the Damascus administration, countries planning to invest and Türkiye, which seeks to expand its commercial ties. For Israel, the issue is whether its confrontational approach will result in its being left out of the economic and diplomatic networks taking shape. The open question is whether the Netanyahu government will choose to join the process by pursuing a security agreement with Damascus or continue its current stance.
Background
Syria is not a new name in the FikirPilot archive: in the past 90 days, we published a news report mentioning this name; that article is dated August 26, 2026. The development here will be added alongside those records in our archive; readers can follow the earlier articles bearing the same name through the archive and see the timeline as a whole.