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ompensate Egypt for lost American military assistance. The Syrian crisis and the US administration's reluctant position towards acting against the Bashar Al-Assad regime came to add to the sources of difference, particularly after the Obama administration retreated from its threats to strike Al-Assad's regime
reats to strike Al-Assad's regime and engaged in a deal on Syrian EFTA00705807 chemical weapons, which gave another opportunity of survival to Al- Assad. The major source of the US-Saudi difference, however, came on Iran — particularly after the initial agreement on its nuclear programme, which Saud
would push for a change in diplomatic strategy, perhaps by offering an American peace plan, instead of simply walking away from the negotiations. Robert M. Danin, a former American official involved in the Middle East now at the Council on Foreign Relations, said such a plan would be the last card Mr. Kerry
nt position towards acting against the Bashar Al-Assad regime came to add to the sources of difference,
compensate Egypt for lost American military assistance. The Syrian crisis and the US administration's reluctant position towards acting against the Bashar Al-Assad regime came to add to the sources of difference, particularly after the Obama administration retreated from its threats to strike Al-Assad's regim
would push for a change in diplomatic strategy, perhaps by offering an American peace plan, instead of simply walking away from the negotiations. Robert M. Danin, a former American official involved in the Middle East now at the Council on Foreign Relations, said such a plan would be the last card Mr. Kerry
clipse the regional and international focus on Syria, where hundreds of people have been slaughtered on a daily basis for the past year and a half. Assad will likely exploit this by ratcheting up his brutality against Syrian rebels and civilians while eyes are gazed elsewhere. While the course of Ope
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Barack Obama
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George W. Bush
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United States
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Lebanon
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Tehran
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Hosni Mubarak
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Middle East
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Cairo
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Marc Rich
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Jerusalem
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Fatah
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Mahmoud Abbas
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West Bank
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John Kerry
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Morocco
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Mohamed Morsi
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