MK Ofer Shelah (Yesh Atid) attacked the recently released Russian report on the downing of a Russian aircraft by Syrian anti-air defenses which the Russians blamed on Israel.
"Israel is not to blame for the downing of the Russian plane, and the Defense Ministry in Moscow knows it, so why does it accuse us of signaling that Syria is no longer a no-man's-land and that there are new rules of the game?"
"Netanyahu is proud of his relations with Putin," he added, "but Putin is far less romantic: he has interests, and he acts according to them, and as long as the prime minister deals only with tactical coordination and not a big move to bring the Americans back into the picture, In the field they will define the reality as they wish. "