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| June 10, 2013
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Senior Israeli Minister: With Iran & Hezbollah’s help, Assad may win Syrian war

To win, Israel’s Strategic Affairs Minister Steinitz says: “It is in his (Assad’s) interest not to provoke us, so that we get involved.”

Steinitz’s assessment was quickly disavowed by others in PM Netanyahu’s coalition gov’t.

 

By Reuters

Syrian President Bashar Assad, backed by Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, may prevail in the more than two-year-old uprising against him, Israel’s intelligence minister said on Monday.

Free Syrian Army fighters eat Kibbeh

Free Syrian Army fighters eat Kibbeh, a traditional Allepian food, in Aleppo’s Karm al-Jabal district, June 8, 2013. – Photo: Reuters

Though the assessment was quickly disavowed by others in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government, it reflected the difficulties facing Israel and Western countries in predicting Syria‘s destiny and weighing intervention. Continue Reading »

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| November 22, 2012
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Barak reiterates: Gaza…Hamas, Jihad took a hard hit

Defense Minister & Finance Minister  comment on Gaza operation, supporting PM’s decisions but apprehensive in face of what lies ahead.

‘Hamas will bounce back,’ Ashdod mayor Yehiel Lasri says.

Ynet

 

“The price the other side paid was so great that it will have to think 70 times before doing this again,” said Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz in a special Ynet Live broadcast Thursday, discussing the ramifications of the ceasefire with Hamas and the aftermath of Operation Pillar of Defense.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak – Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg

“We had two alternatives, and we reached a crossroad,” the finance minister said. Continue Reading »

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