Chairman Yair Lapid of the Yesh Atid party said Thursday that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin was futile.
Writing on Facebook, Lapid said, "The Russians have already announced that they have no intention of changing their policy, and will continue to cooperate with the Iranians in Syria, allowing them to establish themselves 20 kilometers from the Israeli border, with the possibility of establishing a military port and an air base opposite our front door. This is a huge failure of Israeli foreign policy."