Israel’s Objectives in Syria

Israeli forces look to be settling in for a long occupation of strategic areas in the Golan Heights.

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By Andrew Davidson Bashar Assad’s abrupt flight from Syria left behind a power vacuum. The rebels who overthrew him are hard at work reassuring the public and foreign leaders that the transition will be orderly and as peaceful as possible. But in the meantime, foreign powers are jockeying for position – none more dramatically than […]

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