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Trump’s Syria Withdrawal and Mattis’ Resignation Startle Israel – and Undercut Netanyahu
Officials have tried to downplay the damage to Israel’s national security – but the defense establishment is up in arms
The resignation of U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis, 24 hours after Donald Trump’s surprise decision to withdraw American troops from Syria, has startled and alarmed much of the Western world. It is seen as an unraveling of Trump’s relatively restrained national security policies and as a harbinger of potentially dangerous instability in the months to come.
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