ISRAEL – Israel turns to Russia to get out of the quagmire into which it has sunk.
The Israeli Deputy Minister of Diplomacy in Prime Minister Michael Oren’s Office has expressed Benjamin Netanyahu’s willingness to put aside the US and turn instead to Russia to prevent an escalation of tension between Israel, Iran and Syria.
In this kind of situation, the United States should help Israel, but since they lack influence in Syria, Israel has decided to turn to Russia instead:
“The United States does not want to take any risk in Syria because they are no longer part of it,” Oren said in a telephone interview with the US news channel Bloomberg, which had already reported direct contact between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian officials after the F-16 affair shot down by Syria.
For Bloomberg, it is a kind of criticism from Israel to Washington for its indifference to the incident. She is not wrong too much. The American newspaper Daily Beast is clear about this when he writes: “On Saturday, February 10, we realized that Israel has illusory ideas on two issues: the first, Israel imagines being able to be at the shelter from the internal war in Syria. And the second, he hopes that under Donald Trump’s presidency, the United States would be a more reliable ally for Tel Aviv. But twelve hours after the Saturday incident that resulted in the destruction of an Israeli army F-16 by the Syrian DCA, the United States remained silent.”
On Saturday, February 10, the Pentagon issued a statement in which it sympathized with Israel, while stressing that it was not involved in the Israeli intervention in Syria.
However, Michael Oren hoped that Russia could prevent a war with the axis of the Resistance.
“The Russians are expected to ease the tension, because I do not think anyone wants the war right now,” he said.
The IRO has repeatedly denounced the Israeli intoxication campaigns against it, recalling that the Iranian presence in Syria took place at the request of the Syrian legal government and for the purpose of the fight against terrorism. The Iraqi and Syrian governments have more than once praised the role of Iran and its allies in eliminating terrorists in the region.
Knowingly, relying on Russia, although it seems to be the best option for Israel, with the aim of “limiting Iran’s influence in the region” has not yet produced any results desirable for Tel Aviv. The Israeli Prime Minister has tried, during all his visits, in recent months, in Russia, to draw “the red lines of Israel about the Iranian presence in Syria” and thus convince Russian President Vladimir Putin to change strategy without influencing him in any way: Putin always remained calm, even cold.
Putin’s most publicized reaction on August 23, 2017, the day the Israeli Prime Minister visited Moscow, reminded Putin that “the Guard Corps of the Islamic Revolution and the forces of Hezbollah are as stressed as they are anxious” Lebanese were ready to attack Israel via Syria. “Very calm, the Russian president noted that Iran was Russia’s strategic ally in the Middle East, but that Israel is also an important partner for Russia in the region,” announced at the time the Russian newspaper Pravda.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had always indicated that the Iranian presence in Syria was legal and that Moscow had given no guarantee for a withdrawal of Iranian allied forces from Syrian territory.
