Amos Harel, Haaretz: Analysis Putin's Phone Call With Netanyahu Put End to Israeli Strikes in Syria
Prior to Saturday call, senior Israeli officials were still taking a militant line and it seemed Jerusalem was considering further military action.
Russian President Vladimir Putin put an end to the confrontation between Israel and Iran in Syria and both sides accepted his decision. That’s the apparent conclusion to be reached from the chain of events this past weekend.
On Saturday afternoon, after the second wave of bombardments by the Israel Air Force against Syrian targets and Iranian installations in Syria, senior Israeli officials were still taking a militant line and it seemed as if Jerusalem was considering further military action. Discussion of that ended not long after a phone call between Putin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Update #1: Haaretz: Telephone Call Stopped Imminent Israeli-Iranian War (Middle East Monitor/The Iranian)
Update #2: Israel and Iran Are Inching Closer to Actual War (VICE)
Update #3: Russia Can Keep the Peace Between Israel and Iran (Joost Hiltermann, The Atlantic)
WNU Editor: The military strikes ended after the phone call .... so it must have worked. The question is .... what was offered (or threatened) to make it stop.
