Well-informed sources told Kuwaiti newspaper Aljarida that deputy Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Muqdad recently met for two hours with Netanyahu’s adviser Yitzhak Molko in New York.
The meeting took place in Helmsley Hotel in New York and hosted by a US businessman of Jewish origin, Ron Lauder who has aclose relations with Damascus since 1996 and mediated between Netanyahu and the President Hafez al-Assad.