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U.S. Elections Seen Delaying Action on Syria
(Times of Israel) Former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Itamar Rabinovich, who was also Israel's chief negotiator with Syria in 1992-95, told Army Radio on Thursday that "it's not Russia that's preventing intervention. Russia is the pretext, the alibi" for the lack of substantive international action. "If someone wanted to ratchet up the pressure on Syria, they could." The real block, he said, is the U.S. government. "The Obama administration is not looking for another major Middle East crisis before November." Rabinovich, a former president of Tel Aviv University and a visiting professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, expressed his dismay at the world's response to the bloodshed in Syria and said that President Bashar Assad was "living on borrowed time."