Russian-Israel Tensions Continue To Rise

Missed missile issues dismissive missive

Previously we wrote about Russia’s low-key threat to Israel, where Russia remarked to Israel that:

[…] if you start supplying drones to Ukraine, Iran will have new modern air defense systems […]

Russia in May fired at one of the Israeli jets over Syria, which Israel downplayed on the 26th July, calling it a “one-off incident”:

Israel said on Tuesday that its military jets came under Russian anti-aircraft fire over Syria in May but they missed their target, describing the confrontation as a "one-off incident".

Now this might not seem connected, but why did Israel wait for 2 months before making this disclosure? Obviously, the connection here is air defense systems (or anti-aircraft systems),.

This is Israel’s very subtle response to Russia: ‘go ahead, your anti-air defences don’t work anyway, you tried to shoot our jets down and missed’. There’s also another side to the wording: “one-off incident”, where Israel are trying to suggest Russia wasn’t intentional in their response.

This seems kinda PR-ish, in that Israel are trying to downplay evidence of a rift between themselves and Russia in the public sphere. These developments could get interesting.

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