Israel Hayom | An uneasy Israel.
Dan Margalit
In a routine article for journalists published on Saturday, former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Professor Itamar Rabinovich focused on Winston Churchill's famous distinction between “the end of the beginning” and “the beginning of the end.” Bashar al-Assad is on the seamline between the two situations. But even the world-renowned professor of Middle Eastern history was cautious about predicting how long the president would continue to fight the rebels and under what terms he would surrender.