(Ha'aretz) Zvi Bar'el - Turkey and the U.S. presented Russia with a plan whereby Assad would agree to resign within three months, during which there would be an orderly transfer of power to the Syrian National Coalition. If Assad accepts the proposal, he will receive political asylum, and Syria will enjoy massive Western aid in its reconstruction. For the moment, however, Assad is refusing even to meet with the UN envoy, Al-Akhdar al-Ibrahimi, and appears to have made a strategic decision to continue fighting.
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