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Israel considers creating Syrian buffer zone with aid of local villages

 

Maj. Gen. Yair Golan said, “One of the defensive measures that we of course cannot rule out is creating a defensive buffer zone on the other side of the border, together with interlocutors who will have an interest in cooperating with us against other elements who threaten them too,”

By Yoav Limor

OC Northern Command Maj. Gen Yair Golan, the man who is staring down the barrel of a disintegrating Syria, so to speak, has assessments that point to the possibility that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s army has already used small amounts of chemical weapons against rebel forces.

 

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