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Fast Forward Kerry Postpones Israel Trip To Join Syria Talks
The Obama administration could decide this week to approve lethal aid for Syrian rebels and will weigh the merits of a less likely move to send U.S. airpower to enforce a no-fly zone over the nation ripped by two years of civil war, officials said Sunday. White House meetings are planned as Syrian President Bashar…
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Fast Forward Israel Aims To Stay Out of Syria Conflict, Despite Golan Friction
Israel aims to stay out of Syria’s civil war, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, despite violence eroding security on the Golan Heights border area. The strategic plateau, most of which has been occupied by Israel since the 1967 war, saw fierce fighting last week between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces and Syrian rebels…
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Israel News Israel Could Benefit From Syrian Civil War as Hamas and Hezbollah Face Setbacks
In the world of realpolitik, one country’s devastation is, at times, the other’s advantage. And the Syrian civil war, with tens of thousands of casualties and millions of refugees, is no different. For Israel, its neighbor in the South, the disintegration of the Syrian state entails some suprising short-term national security benefits. Analysts looking at…
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Fast Forward Israel Threatened To Attack Assad Troops Along Syria-Israel Border
UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said at a closed emergency session of the UN Security Council on Friday night that Israel threatened to attack President Bashar Assad’s troops near the border with Syria, during clashes Thursday between rebels and the Assad regime. A senior IDF official confirmed Saturday that Israel did indeed pass that warning…
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Fast Forward U.N. Says No To Russia Peacekeeping Force in Golan
The United Nations on Friday thanked Russia for offering to replace peacekeepers from Austria in the Golan Heights but said an agreement between Israel and Syria bars all permanent members of the Security Council from the U.N. observer mission there. President Vladimir Putin made the offer in Russia on Friday after Vienna said it would…
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Fast Forward Austria Will Yank Peacekeepers From Golan Amid Syria Chaos
Austria will withdraw its peacekeepers from the U.N. monitoring force on the Golan Heights given worsening fighting between Syrian government forces and rebels, it said on Thursday. Austrians account for about 380 of the 1,000-strong U.N. force monitoring a ceasefire between Syria and Israel, and their departure will deal a serious blow to the mission….
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News Little Sign of Change at Syrian Charities After Scandal
An organization that declared its intent to bring transparency to charitable donations in Syrian Sephardic Jewish communities has gone silent three years after its inception. Shortly after the July 2009 arrests of three prominent Sephardic rabbis who had used charity funds in a money-laundering scheme, the Sephardic Community Federation instituted a compliance plan for charitable…
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Fast Forward Syria Built Chemical Arsenal to Counter Israel
Syria, defeated by Israel in three wars and afraid its arch enemy had gained a nuclear arsenal, began in earnest to build a covert chemical weapons programme three decades ago, aided by its neighbours, allies and European chemical wholesalers. Damascus lacked the technology and scientific capacity to set up a programme on its own, but…
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