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150 square kilometres of Syrian territory on the Golan Heights.

but it needs to redefine the conflict. The Iranians and Hezbollah are among those most concerned with the fall of the Syrian regime. Syria has been Iran's one significant ally

US president Barack Obama last week succumbed to calls from commentators and Syrian opposition leaders

Morality Games 303 been silent over his use of conventional weapons to kill over 100,000 Syrian civilians. A Reuters/Ipsos poll at the time found that only 9 % of Americans favored intervention in Syria, but 25 % supported intervention if the Syrian government forces used chemic...

…rs — October 14, the ninth day of the war — Israeli forces on the Golan, at enormous cost, had managed to turn back the Syrian attack. In this war, the men from Sayeret Matkal were not bystanders. Most of the unit joined the fightback in the north, where, under Yoni Netanyahu’s c...

000 Syrian refugees spilling across the Turkish

… the next morning. Then I called Motta again. “Ehud,” he said, with no trace of irony, “it is an extremely serious war. Syrian tanks are getting close to the outer fences of Nafakh” — our main command post on the Golan. “Good luck.” Uzi was waiting for me when we landed. Walking...

but 25 % supported intervention if the Syrian government

…ad gone wrong were already glaringly apparent. Some were operational. It is true we ended up overcoming Palestinian and Syrian resistance. Given the numerical balance of forces, that was a foregone conclusion. But with all the attention paid to the political aims of the invasion,...

…ad gone wrong were already glaringly apparent. Some were operational. It is true we ended up overcoming Palestinian and Syrian resistance. Given the numerical balance of forces, that was a foregone conclusion. But with all the attention paid to the political aims of the invasion,...

…y filled in for a failed traditional media, and they accelerated and enabled the creation of groups as different as the Syrian Electronic Army and Occupy Hong Kong.®” Traditionally, such a long list of hopeless exclusions (no money, no friends, no access, no power) added up to a...

… the next morning. Then I called Motta again. “Ehud,” he said, with no trace of irony, “it is an extremely serious war. Syrian tanks are getting close to the outer fences of Nafakh” — our main command post on the Golan. “Good luck.” Uzi was waiting for me when we landed. Walking...

…he New York Post The storm in Syria Amir Taheri April 16, 2011 -- Yesterday was supposed to be the first day of what Syrian despot Ba shar al-Assad had dubbed "social calm"; he hoped his mixture of promises and repressive measures would silence the pro-democracy uprising that...

…lan Heights. Still, in my formal remarks at the dinner, I urged both sides to resume our effort to negotiate an Israeli-Syrian agreement. Sharaa’s response was, again, unencouraging. But I did notice, and take heart from, the fact that it was neither polemic nor overtly hostile t...

…rs — October 14, the ninth day of the war — Israeli forces on the Golan, at enormous cost, had managed to turn back the Syrian attack. In this war, the men from Sayeret Matkal were not bystanders. Most of the unit joined the fightback in the north, where, under Yoni Netanyahu’s c...