Friday, September 6, 2013

Israel Backs Limited Strike Against Syria

  • Israel Backs Limited Strike Against Syria
    New York Times · 18 hours ago
    Sep 06, 2013 ·Mr. Obama’s limited strike proposal has one crucial foreign ally: Israel.Israeli officials have consistently made the case that enforcing Mr. Obama’s narrow “red line” on Syria is essential to halting the nuclear ambitions of Israel’s archenemy, Iran. More quietly, Israelis have increasingly argued that the best outcome for Syria’s two-and-a-half-year-old civil war, at least for the moment, is no outcome. For Jerusalem, the status quo, horrific as it may be from a humanitarian perspective, seems preferable to either a victory by Mr. Assad’s government and his Iranian backers or a strengthening of rebel groups, increasingly dominated by Sunni jihadis.
  • Pioneer Press15 hours ago
    Sep 05, 2013 · JERUSALEM -- President Barack Obama's position on Syria -- punish President Bashar Assad for using chemical weapons without seeking to force him …
  • Pro-Israel lobby backs US strikes on Syria
    news.yahoo.com/pro-israel-lobby-backs-us-strikes-syria-181159670.html
    Washington - In an important boost for President Barack Obama, two key Republicans and the Israel lobby's two most influential groups announced …
  • voiceofrussia.com8 hours ago
    President Obama’s limited war resolution against Syria cleared its initial congressional hurdle on a 10-7 vote in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, but its ...

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