With the overthrow of former President Bashar Assad and with interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, Syria has the opportunity to join the Abraham Accords, David Friedman, former U.S. ambassador to Israel told Newsmax Wednesday.

“We don’t know how this guy is going to turn out in Syria,” Friedman told “Rob Schmitt Tonight.”

Friedman said Syria’s interim president “certainly has a checkered background.”

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