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ssue. They fear, I think rightly, that the United States puts a much higher stake on the nuclear issue than on rolling back Iranian power in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and other places that the Saudis are concerned about. So that's a major difference. The United States wants Syrian president Bashar al-Assad
d will exacerbate a rift that is already widening between American and Israeli leaders. Two recent examples of the divide: Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon's unacceptable comments about America, and the fact that Israel did not vote in the United Nations in favor of an American resolution condemning R
making than with the blurring 4 the lines drawn in Arab sands decades ago. On the map, Tripoli, on the Med=terranean Sea, lies within the borders of Lebanon and is the country's s=cond-largest city. But Tripoli, staunchly Sunni, with an Alawite minority, has always been within the orbit of the S=rian cit
to be funneled from Syria to Hezbollah. Although Israel took care not to assume official =esponsibility for the specific attack, Minister of Defense Moshe Yaalon pu=licly stated that Israel's policy was to prevent the passage of strategi= weaponry from Syria to Lebanon. But parallel with that messaging, Israe
el should not attack Iran: 1. The Iranians would retaliate with great fury, closing the Strait of Hormuz and unleashing the dogs of terror in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iraq. EFTA00687003 2. The entire region would be set ablaze by irate Muslims; the Arab Spring would turn into a frigid Islamist winter. 3.
e should not be so certain or so cavalier. Another is that you're trying to scare us about Iran's future capabilities against America. According to Moshe Yaalon, your deputy prime minister, Iran is "getting ready to produce a missile with a range of 10,000 kilometers." I think that's news to us. Indeed, ma
Entities connected to both Lebanon and Moshe Yaalon

Barack Obama
PERSON
George W. Bush
PERSON
Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
Bill Clinton
PERSON
Benjamin Netanyahu
PERSON
Tehran
LOCATION
Damascus
LOCATION
Middle East
LOCATION
Jerusalem
LOCATION
Vladimir Putin
PERSON
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
Hosni Mubarak
PERSON
Tunisia
LOCATION
Fatah
ORGANIZATIONthe West Bank
LOCATION
Mahmoud Abbas
PERSON
Ehud Barak
PERSONMediterranean
LOCATION
John Kerry
PERSON
Tel Aviv
LOCATION