The Lauder document ....

The Lauder document reads: "Israel will withdraw from the Syrian land taken in 1967, in accordance with Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, which established the right of all states to secure and recognized borders in the "land for peace" formula, to a commonly agreed border based on the line of June 4, 1967. The withdrawal will be effected in three stages and completed over a period of 18 months with the normalization implemented in the third stage and declaring an end to the state of war during the first phase of the withdrawal."

"What's important about this document," says Danny Yatom, who served as the Mossad director during Netanyahu's previous term as prime minister and as the director of the political-security staff under Prime Minister Ehud Barak, "is that Lauder wrote explicitly that all of the eight points he cites here are points about which an agreement had been reached between Israel and Syria, and that there remained other points that still needed to be completed by defining security zones for both sides. At issue are agreements, not the fanciful creations of Lauder's imagination." Yatom, who was interviewed by Yedioth Ahronoth's magazine said: "According to Lauder, this was an understanding that was achieved between Assad and Netanyahu through his agency, by means of his meetings with Assad."