[…] Ehud Barak also described the Arab Spring that has swept regional despots from power in the Mideast and Africa as an extremely moving » manifestation of mass striving for democracy, and he predicted that Syrian President Bashar Assad would be toppled within weeks.Barak spoke on the final day of the three-day World Policy Conference in Vienna, which also showed that relations between Turkey and Israel remain strained following last year’s Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla that killed eight Turkish citizens and a Turkish-American. […]
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