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There was jubilation this week when the widely detested regime of President Assad was swiftly and unexpectedly toppled by an alliance of Islamist rebel groups.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a speech to the United Nations General Assembly, in which he referred to the Bible: ‘We face the same timeless choice that Moses put before the people of Israel thousands of years ago, as we were about to enter the Promised Land.'