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2013-05-18 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israeli Official: We Underestimated Assad

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Posted by trailing wife 2013-05-18 00:24|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Report: Israel prefers Assad survive Syria conflict

Not that their opinion matters a great deal, in this case

It's our back yard. IMO, it's long past time Israel started asserting itself as a regional super power (especially now when ME oil stops being strategically important to our patron).

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-05-18 04:54|| 2013-05-18 04:54|| Front Page Top

#2 The situation that Assad survives, maintaining power in Damascus and in the corridors to the large coastal cities, would entail the breaking up of Syria into three separate states.

Israeli adopts historic British, one bite at a time, olifant eating foreign policy.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-05-18 10:35|| 2013-05-18 10:35|| Front Page Top

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