Time Might Not Be on Bashar al-Assad’s Side
He can win battles, but can he win everything?
October 7, 2016
Israel has done exactly what the U.S. wanted.
On Wednesday the State Department, invoking the sort of language usually employed for acts of terror, “strongly condemned” an Israeli announcement that 98 houses would be built in the West Bank town of Shiloh. The condemnation is hardly coherent, and Jonathan Tobin suspects ulterior motives:
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Israel has done exactly what the U.S. wanted.
A boatload of anti-Semites.
Renewing the covenant.
A frequent refuge from persecution.