"The threat for Syria is still imminent." Strategic Culture Foundation

	"According to CIA, Israel expedited the work on chemical weapons after the Yom Kippur war in 1973. The US intelligence detected the test in the Negev desert. In 1992 Israel signed the chemical weapons ban convention but never ratified the document. [4] The Israeli chemical weapons program was used as a reason for starting the Syria program. Now its agreement to join the convention is not even related to the neighbor.  Now why among all those, who possessed the weapons in the past or possess them now, only Syria is faced with an ultimatum?"ONLINE JOURNALback Strategic Culture Foundation Syria: Russia’s Chemical Weapons Proposal Offers Obama Face-Saving Chance  Everything gave a reason to believe that the US Congress will follow the example of British parliament to say no to the use of force against Syria. All of a sudden President Putin stretched a helping hand and there was no urgent need for lawmakers’ decision anymore so the vote was postponed for a long time. It’s not that Moscow is so much obsessed with the idea of Obama’s face-saving. It’s rather a collateral result. The main thing for the Russian leadership is to prevent the Syrian conflict sliding into the quagmire of chaos.  According to Israeli sources, the talks between Syria and Russia went on for at least two weeks and Iran was involved too. Allegedly the promise by Moscow to boost conventional weapons supplies to Syria was part of the chemical weapons deal…  Dmitry MININ | 13.09.2013
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