ANALYSIS
“The risk is a direct confrontation between Israel and Iran that will encompass Syria and Lebanon,” Sami Nader said in an interview with Bloomberg.
“The jet crash represented a severe blow to Israel’s prestige and could mark a major change after years in which it acted against targets in Syria with relative impunity,” Isabel Kershner, Anne Barnard, and Eric Schmitt write for the New York Times.
“[Israel] uses Russia as an intermediary to convey its messages to the Syrian-Iranian-Hezbollah axis. And if they don’t pick up on those messages, Israel uses its air force, which, since the beginning of the Syrian civil war, has attacked Syrian and Iranian targets on at least one hundred occasions,” Yossi Melman writes for Middle East Eye.
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