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… by now ended, but his successor was someone I knew well. Menachem Digli was the officer on whom I’d bestowed my stolen Syrian Mercedes at the end of the war. His leg was now recovered from the motorcycle accident, and I returned to the sayeret at his deputy. He delegated full re...

…, Yoni let him drive on. Along with the other obvious reasons not to fire on a civilian VW, he didn’t want to alert the Syrians and their hosts there was danger ahead. But the Lebanese motorist, as well as a group of nearby farmers, were suspicious enough to deliver a warning tha...

…I’m going back,” I told him. Motta’s reply took my mind back 15 months, to our on-again-off-again mission to abduct the Syrian officers, with Motta and Dado in the command post, intent on reining in the “young bulls” of the sayeret. “Ehud,” he said, “from what I’m hearing, I don’...

… comrades, too: Amit Ben-Horn, the soldier who’d relayed the order from Motta to abort our second attempt to abduct the Syrian officers in Lebanon, and Amitai Nachmani, the officer who had 156 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028004

…, Syria enjoys the protection of Russia -- perhaps concerned for its naval base at Tartus. The Russian view is that the Syrian crisis poses no threat to international peace and HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030169

…ion consist largely of one or another variant of Sunni Islamism. AKP-led Turkey has emerged as a key facilitator of the Syrian opposition, in which Sunni Islamist elements play a prominent role. Turkey appears to be in the process of making a bid for the regional leadership also...

…, they claimed that the attack was because of an anti Islamic video. All the while, unbeknown to us, we were giving the Syrian Rebels arms, which had already been infiltrated by Al Nursa/A1 Qaeda. In order to keep it all under wraps, Benghazi took care of all credible witnesses....

…dge University Press). Article 4. The Washington Post What path now for Syria? David Ignatius February 12, 2013 -- Syrian opposition fighters appear to be making significant gains on the battlefield this week, following an offer by their top political leader for negotiations...

…Lebanon meets Syria, known as the Sheba’a Farms. But as I knew first-hand, they were not part of Lebanon. I’d met their Syrian inhabitants when I helped “capture” the villages at the very end of the 1973 war on the Golan. When Syria now publicly supported Hizbollah’s efforts to g...

but the Assads were never one of them. I could never quite understand my colleagues' fascination with the brutal Syrian regime. To me

…artnership in 1979 with the newborn Islamic Republic of Iran. And once Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982 in a bid to expel Syrian influence

…in the League have recognized. SPIEGEL: How does Saudi Arabia's foreign minister explain that his country supports the Syrian opposition, on the one hand, while at the same time sending troops to Bahrain? Elaraby: I don't ask him these questions. That's your job. You're the jou...

…k Americans especially should know the law where police officers are concerned. Obama draws a line in the sand against Syrian bombings, they cross the line, Obama does nothing. Obama offends Michelle and she promptly puts him through three degrees of hell as he well deserved. An...

…e to correct if we were to succeed in further missions. Why hadn’t I chosen a route that took us further away from the Syrian base at Banias? How had I let us arrive so unprepared, untrained and unequipped for 72 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011543

…mpossible. I also had doubts whether Assad was ready for real peace: embassies, open borders, personal contact between Syrians and Israelis, and ideally an internationally backed free-trade manufacturing area on the Golan to give Syria a tangible stake in ensuring the peace last...