Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Will Israel Now Face Iran And It's Nuclear Program Alone?

Israeli officials said that Obama telephoned Netanyahu as part of effort to coordinate both states' next moves regarding Syria. Fars News Agency

As Syria Celebrates Obama's “Retreat,” Israel Worries of Iran Implications -- The Slatest

A Syrian state-run newspaper did not mince words Sunday, writing in a front-page editorial that President Obama’s decision to seek congressional authorization for a military strike amounted to a “retreat” by the United States. "Obama announced yesterday, directly or through implication, the beginning of the historic American retreat," the al-Thawra newspaper said, according to Reuters. The newspaper also noted that Obama’s apparent reluctance to launch a strike comes from his “sense of implicit defeat and the disappearance of his allies,” according to the Associated Press translation.

Syria’s Deputy Prime Minister Kadri Jamil was even more blunt, telling a Lebanese television network that Obama “was defeated before the war began,” according to Israel’s Arutz Sheva. The Syrian official added that the seeming back-and-forth from Washington “has made a mockery of the U.S. administration all over the world.”

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Update: Israel fears being left alone to counter Iran nuclear programme -- Financial Times

My Comment: This is how regional wars break-out .... even Iran is now fearful that Israel will strike. On a side note .... both Israel and Saudi Arabia now have a common cause.

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