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Assertive Turkey key to US in shifting Middle East

Source: Jerusalem Post, Dec 12 2012, 2:17pm CST

WASHINGTON/ISTANBUL - With its caustic rhetoric on Israel and its gold-for-gas trade with Iran, Turkey is not the deferential US ally it once was as it carves out a growing role in the fast-changing politics of the Middle East. The collapse ...

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Assad kills hopes of an accord

Source: Sydney Morning Herald  |   May 19 2013, 2:42pm CDT

President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, in a rare interview with a foreign newspaper, appeared to dismiss the possibility of serious progress arising from peace talks planned for next month, and to back away from earlier statements by Syrian official ...

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Syrian-Hizballah’s capture of Qusayr opens direct weapons route to Lebanon

Source: DebkaFile  |   May 19 2013, 2:23pm CDT

Shortly after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu pledged Sunday, May 19, to maintain Israeli operations in Syria against the passage of advanced Iranian weapons to the Lebanese Hizballah, Syrian troops and thei ...

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"For decades, American leaders... proclaimed democratic Turkey as a NATO, pro-Israeli bastion in the Middle East even as they knew Turkish foreign and security policy was in the hands of its military"


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Benjamin Netanyahu threatens more Israeli strikes on Syria

Source: The Telegraph  |   May 19 2013, 2:20pm CDT

The Israeli prime minister said his government would act "with determination" to prevent arms being transferred from Syria to Hizbollah, the Lebanese Shia group, which last week claimed it would soon acquire "game changing" weapons to attack Israel ...

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Report: Obama Administration Apologizes for Another National Security Leak

Source: The Blaze  |   May 19 2013, 1:14pm CDT

Israel Channel 2 broadcast this satellite image showing a Damascus airport warehouse before and after the airstrike (Screenshot: Channel 2 News) American officials apologized to their Israeli counterparts for confirming that Israel was ...

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Which Islamists Are More Dangerous Sunni or Shia?

Source: Yid With Lid  |   May 19 2013, 1:04pm CDT

There is a passionate, but somewhat academic debate, over the following issue: Which is the greater threat, the Sunni Muslim Islamists (Egypt, Tunisia, Gaza Strip, and perhaps soon to be Syria) or the Shia Muslim Islamists (Iran, Lebanon, at ...

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Israel acts to deny Hezbollah arms, says PM Netanyahu

Source: Channel News Asia  |   May 19 2013, 12:59pm CDT

JERUSALEM: Israel is "acting" to prevent weapons from Syria from reaching Lebanon's Hezbollah and will continue to do so, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. His remarks came two weeks after Israel carr ...

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Hezbollah steps up Syria battle, Israel threatens more strikes

Source: Reuters.co.uk  |   May 19 2013, 12:30pm CDT

1 of 2. A Free Syrian Army fighter is seen with his weapon in a damaged house in Deir al-Zor, May 18, 2013. Picture taken May 18, 2013. AMMAN (Reuters) - Lebanese Hezbollah militants attacked a Syrian re ...

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The Russians Are Happy with John Kerry

Source: Commentary  |   May 19 2013, 11:45am CDT

Last week John Kerry went to Moscow to persuade the Russians to play nice with the rest of the international community on Syria. While he would have liked to have them join in the effort to force the Assad regime out of office, his hope was to at ...

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Sunday Links

Source: Elder of Ziyon  |   May 19 2013, 11:41am CDT

From Ian: Howard Jacobson: It’s official: thanks to Stephen Hawking's Israel boycott, anti-Semitism is no more Why is Israel alone of all offending countries to be boycotted? Perhaps because it's that offending country which also just hap ...

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