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Source: http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/warning-more-shake-ups-ahead-1.401763
IDF: In the Arab World Shake-Up, Syria Is Next
(Ha'aretz) Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff - The IDF Military Intelligence appraisal for 2012, recently presented to political decision-makers, predicts the shake-up in the Arab world will continue and that Syria is next. Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who reads all the intelligence assessments, has been saying all month that Assad will fall "within weeks." Before that, he said it would be a matter of months. "Assad will not survive," a senior MI officer says bluntly. "There is no conceivable way he can extricate himself." The demonstrators in Syria appear to have overcome their fear and are continuing to take to the streets despite the clear risk of being shot. Thousands of soldiers are believed to have defected, most of them along the border with Jordan.