Israeli attack intensifies Syrian anger, despair

Syrians on social media mock “right to respond”; US says Syrian rebels will not overthrow Assad; Syrian patriarch pleads for peace; Russia steps up diplomacy; Jumblatt sees no future for Assad; Turkey’s shadow government; Qatar and Turkey draw congressional ire over support for Hamas.
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A general view shows damaged buildings in Mleiha, on the edge of the eastern Ghouta region near Damascus airport, Aug. 15, 2014. Syrian government forces backed by Lebanon's Hezbollah took control of a town just outside Damascus from Islamist fighters. - REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki
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Syrians mock "right to respond"

Ben Caspit writes that Israeli airstrikes against Hezbollah assets in Syria on Dec. 7 were part of a broader game of deterrence between Israel and Hezbollah, not an act of provocation.

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