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January 25, 2013       Share:    

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israels-barak-syria-serves-as-warning-that-countries-cant-always-count-on-outside-help/2013/01/24/abb21e66-6664-11e2-889b-f23c246aa446_story.html

Israel's Barak: Syria Serves as Warning that Countries Can't Always Count on Outside Help

(AP-Washington Post) Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Thursday that global inaction on the bloodbath in Syria is a warning to many countries that they cannot count on outsiders' help - no matter how dire the circumstances. He suggested that this applied to Israel itself. "Many of our best friends are telling us...'Don't worry, if worst comes to worst the world will inevitably (help)....It cannot be taken for granted," he told the World Economic Forum in Davos. "It's on the screens all around the world," tens of thousands of people "slaughtered by their own leader and the world doesn't move." On the threat of Iran's nuclear program, Barak said that Israel believed there "should be a readiness and capability to launch a surgical operation" if diplomacy and sanctions fail.

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