President Barack Obama said on Friday the United States will remove the remainder of its troops from Iraq by the end of the year and that \”after nearly nine years, America\’s war in Iraq will be over.\”
President Barack Obama said on Friday he would pull U.S. troops from Iraq this year, almost nine years after the U.S. invasion, after he failed to convince Iraq that several thousand troops should remain in part as a balance against neighboring Iran.
Israel will allow more Egyptian troops to be deployed in the Sinai in order to keep order in the increasingly chaotic peninsula, according to a report in The Economist.
Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian man who entered a security zone near the Gaza-Israel border.
Israeli soldiers shot and killed three Palestinians in Gaza who were approaching the security fence in an attempt to plant explosive devices, the Israeli military said. The Israeli military said the men were approaching the fence in the northern Gaza Strip.
Israeli troops on the border with Lebanon went on high alert following the collapse of Lebanon\’s government. No additional reservists have been called up, however, according to reports. Military officials reportedly are concerned that Hezbollah, whose exit from the government caused its collapse, would initiate a disturbance on its border with Israel in order to deflect attention from the political crisis.
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The fact that a large majority of Jews opposes the war but their communal representatives refuse to speak out may accelerate the estrangement of so many from organized Jewish life, especially among younger Jews.
There is no military option in Iran. If we didn\’t learn this from the Americans\’ ongoing experience in Iraq, we should have learned it from Israel\’s recent experience in Lebanon.
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