Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the US, is worried. Not about Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, not about the 56,000+ civilians Israel has killed there in the past 19 months, not about the crimes against humanity. No — he’s worried that the United States might, in some hypothetical future, support Syria’s internationally recognized claim to the occupied Golan Heights.

Tom Barrack, US ambassador to Türkiye and special envoy to Syria, on Sunday slammed the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement that carved up the Middle East for "imperial gain-not peace." The division of Syria was a historic mistake, he emphasized, stressing a that the fall of the Assad regime in Syria would open the door for prosperity and security.