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Israelis protest against Turkey's incursion into northern Syria, outside the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv on July 08, 2010. Photo by Gili Yaari/Flash 90.

Kurds withdraw from Syria-Turkey border region amid tentative ceasefire

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The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has withdrawn from a 75-mile area between the border towns of Ras al-Ayn and Tal Abyad in compliance with a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, and will move back 19 miles...
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo by Ron Przysucha.

Netanyahu meets with Pompeo amid Israeli concerns about situation in northern Syria

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday amid Israeli concerns over the withdrawal of U.S. forces from northern Syria. “Netanyahu and I had a productive meeting on...
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meeting in Ankara on Oct. 17, 2019. Source: Screenshot.

Trump’s ‘impulsive’ decision to leave Syria undermines Israel’s interests, according to experts

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The abrupt decision by U.S. President Donald Trump last week to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria has led to a major foreign-policy crisis in the region and worldwide. Equally as important are the changing roles...
PM Netanyahu Addresses the AIPAC 2019 Policy Conference

Netanyahu should spare Israel humiliation, pain

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Mr. Netanyahu, It is time for you to reflect on where you stand and how best to serve the country you care about in a time of much uncertainty and turmoil. You have served as...
U.S. President Donald Trump, June 20, 2019. Credit: White House Photo.

Trump on the Kurds in Syria: ‘They’re no angels’

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 U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday defended his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from northern Syria even as criticism points to the United States having betrayed its Kurdish allies in the region. In talking about...
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Un-Donstitutional

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A year ago Donald Trump praised the Kurds for helping the United States defeat  ISIS, but now he wonders why they didn’t fight alongside the Allies on D-Day.  Come to think of it, they...
Demonstrators rip a Turkish flag as they attend a protest march from the Turkish embassy to the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv in support of the Syrian Kurds and against Turkey's incursion into Syria, Oct. 15, 2019. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.

Israelis protest against Turkish invasion of Syria

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Several hundred protesters gathered outside the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv on Tuesday to oppose Turkey’s incursion into northern Syria. The protesters, who represented most of the local political spectrum, shouted slogans against Turkish President...
U.S. President Donald Trump participates in a bilateral meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey at the G20 Summit Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Credit: Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead.

Trump demands Turkey halt Syria incursion, authorizes new sanctions

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U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday called on Turkey to immediately halt its offensive in northern Syria and authorized new sanctions against the NATO member state. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the United States...
Kurdish Mahabad Republic leader Qazi Muhammad (middle), between 1946 and 1947. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

The Americans, the Kurds, the war

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Two days after announcing the betrayal of America’s Kurdish allies in Syria, U.S. President Donald Trump decided to belittle them for good measure. “Now the Kurds are fighting for their land,” Trump told reporters...
Turkey has invaded northern Syria, threatening the Kurdish population following U.S. forces withdrawing from the area earlier this week. Source: Screenshot.

How black and white thinking clouds realpolitik

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Black and white thinking, which divides the world into absolute camps of good and evil, is associated with religious fanaticism from medieval Christianity to the Islamic world. There are now troubling signs that a secular...