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What Matters Most On Thursday, August 29, 2013

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Undated photo posted on Syrian President Bashar Assad's official Instagram account showing Assad visiting with soldiers in Baba Armr, Homs province. (photo credit: AP/Syrian Presidency via Instagram)

As Damascus readies for war, Assad speaks of victory

By Elhanan Miller

Bellicose Syrian statements precede possible Western strike, and pro-Assad daily warns of Iranian, Hezbollah action

Iran army chief warns ‘Zionists will burn’ if US attacks Syria

Obama affirms Assad to blame, but officials say gas attack intel incomplete

By Deb Riechmann and Kimberly Dozier

Russia, France deploy warships to eastern Mediterranean

Israelis carry gas mask boxes outside a distribution center in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, on August 29, 2013. (photo credit: Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Flash90)

Thousands crowd gas mask centers in Haifa, Tel Aviv

By Haviv Rettig Gur and Stuart Winer

Jerusalem branch closed after mob took protective kits by force; civilians worried by Syria threat overwhelm distribution points

Israelis carry boxes with gas masks at a distribution center in Tel Aviv on August 28, 2013.(photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

Gas mask centers boost hours as Israelis line up for protection

By Haviv Rettig Gur and Stuart Winer

Distribution centers for gas masks were inundated in late August with Israelis trying to get their gas masks as Western intervention in Syria looked likely (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

Reporter's notebookVital sarin antidote missing from gas mask kits

By Ilan Ben Zion

Dancing, suspecting and respecting

No matter how good it feels to see IDF soldiers dancing Gangnam at a Palestinian wedding, that was still really, really dumb

An IDF soldier dancing at a party in Hebron earlier this week. (Screenshot: YouTube)

Soldiers under fire for partying with Palestinians

IDF unhappy after video shows uniformed troops dancing to Gangnam Style with young Hebronites, some of them Hamas members

Israelis carry boxes with gas masks at a distribution center in Tel Aviv on August 28, 2013. (Photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

Analysis

No reason to panic… probably

By David Horovitz

Members of a Muslim congregation pray during a service at the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge mosque in Brooklyn, NY, earlier this month (photo credit: AP/Bebeto Matthews)

NYPD designates several mosques as terrorist organizations

By ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO

Documents reveal police investigated countless Muslims since 9/11 as part of surveillance program

Two Falash Mura girls who became new Israelis in August 2013 wave their flags after reaching the airport (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/ToI)

For Ethiopian Jews, the end of a 30-year road to Zion

By Michal Shmulovich

Baby Usa'ma, found near the Damascus gate in Jerusalem last week (photo Credit: Flash90)

Police find mother of baby abandoned in Jerusalem

30-year-old Palestinian woman left her two-day-old daughter after getting pregnant out of wedlock

Take a bite out of Cafe Christopher's veggie burger, only in Jaffa. (photo credit: Courtesy Phyllis Glazer)

Food for thought

The veggie burger in Jaffa

By Phyllis Glazer

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Comedian Yisrael Campbell (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

The Times of YISRAEL #3: Forgive me…

By Yisrael Campbell

BlogFunny ha ha or funny gas mask?

The Kvar Takfu website, Thursday 29 August, 2013. (screen capture: kvartakfu.com)

Yes or no?‘Strike on Syria’ site says it simply

By Stuart Winer

Catherine Zeta-Jones, left, and Michael Douglas in New York City, April 2012 (photo credit: David Shankbone/Wikimedia Commons/File)

Degrees of separationZeta-Jones, Douglas ‘taking time apart’

By AP

In this photo taken on a government organized media tour, Syrian army soldiers are seen deployed in the Jobar neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013 (photo credit: AP)

Arabic media review‘A graveyard for the invaders’

By Michael Bassin

Distribution centers for gas masks were inundated in late August with Israelis trying to get their gas masks as Western intervention in Syria looked likely (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewWarning: Danger at any moment (maybe)

By Yossi Nachemi

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