Insider: The United States believes that there will be no breakthrough in the normalization of Israel-Syria relations before October

On June 30, the Jerusalem Post quoted people familiar with the matter as saying that the U.S. government believed that the possibility of normalizing relations between Israel and Syria before the Israeli parliamentary elections in October was "very slim." Reports said that Syria demands Israel to withdraw its troops from the buffer zone, but the United States believes that Netanyahu is unlikely to approve the withdrawal before the election, which will become a major obstacle to the two sides 'efforts to normalize relations.