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December 15, 2021

By Destroying Syria’s Chemical-Weapons Capabilities, Israel Undergirds the Regional Order

And sends several important messages.

On Monday, the Washington Post reported that the IDF had conducted two airstrikes—on March 5, 2020 and June 8, 2021—targeting Syria’s chemical-weapons program. Jerusalem is thought to have carried out similar attacks in 2018. Besides demonstrating the failure of the 2013 U.S. agreement to have Russia supervise the removal of Damascus’s chemical weapons, the Israeli attacks send a clear message to the world. Yoav Limor writes:

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