Russia’s Return to the Middle East, and What It Means for Israel
As Putin tries to supplant the U.S., Jerusalem must remain realistic.
October 13, 2016
Russia’s Return to the Middle East, and What It Means for Israel
As Putin tries to supplant the U.S., Jerusalem must remain realistic.
Above all, writes Yaakov Amidror, Moscow’s intervention in Syria, along with its cultivation of closer diplomatic ties with Cairo and Tehran, is aimed at restoring Russian influence to what it was at the height of the cold war, and ultimately at supplanting the U.S. as the dominant force in the region. While Israel continues to make the best of a bad situation, the horizon is not bright:
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