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Monday, October 7, 2019
Israeli officials reportedly surprised and ‘amazed’ at Trump’s Syria pullout
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleChannel 13 reports that Israeli officials had no advance warning ahead of US President Donald Trump’s announcement on Twitter of a US withdrawal from Syria’s northern border and the apparent abandonment of the Kurds who had fought with the US against Islamic State.
Israeli sources were “amazed” at the US willingness to leave the Kurds to face alone an expected Turkish incursion into the country, the channel says.
It is not clear how seriously observers should take Trump’s announcement, as a State Department official said a short time ago that only a handful of troops were being deployed, and the US was not carrying out a dramatic withdrawal of all its forces from Syria.
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