[…] 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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