After making two major air strikes in and near Damascus in three days, Israel informed the Assad regime on Monday that it is not taking sides in the Syrian civil war. But of course it is. The Syrian government promptly claimed that these Israeli attacks proved what it had been saying all along: that the “armed terrorist groups” that are trying to overthrow Bashar al-Assad’s regime (i.e the anti-regime fighters of the Free Syrian Army) are really the tools of a demonic alliance between Israel, the US, conservative Arab states like Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and the Sunni Islamist fanatics of al-...
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