Obama Talks Human Rights, Syria, Israel

Impact

I'm not sure I'm reading this right, but it looks like Obama plans to continue the American policy of diplomatically supporting the Syria opposition (as opposed to military aid).

The shout-out to Israel comes in advance of his trip there next month, which I wrote about earlier.

Edited to add: The Council on Foreign Relations also heard the Syria line as continuing a primarily diplomatic, non-confrontational policy: