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Filling the Mideast vacuum
...Russia, which many people a few months ago said was clinging onto Syria for dear life because it was its last foothold in the Middle East, is now actively sought after by regional leaders.Americas Middle East policies its hesitancy, its lack of clear redlines, its apparent weakness have set its allies scurrying about looking for other partners. Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman could have been speaking for many countries in the region when he said at the Sderot Conference Wednesday that it was unwise to rely on the US as much as Israel has in the past, and that Israels foreign policy should not look only in one direction: toward Washington. Indeed, with some major US missteps in the Middle East over the last three years raising questions for many regional actors about Washingtons reliability, many of Israels neighbors are looking in other directions. Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-11-21 |
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