The Obama administration is still dithering.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he received assurances of military coordination in a trip to Moscow that would help Israel stop the transfer of weapons through Syria to its Iranian-backed Hezbollah enemy in Lebanon.
Netanyahu said his meeting Thursday with Russian President Vladimir Putin was “very successful.” His senior military advisers will meet with Russian counterparts to work out a plan to help “preserve freedom of movement for the Israel Defense Forces and Air Force in the places most important to our security,” according to a text message from his office in Jerusalem.
Putin greeted Netanyahu at the Kremlin where he told reporters at a picture-taking session before the meeting he was “very happy that we have regular contacts at the highest level.” The discussions were intense because of “the difficult situation in the region,” Putin said.
Netanyahu told Putin he made the daytrip because Israel must “do everything we can to prevent the transfer of sophisticated weapons from Iran and Syria to Hezbollah,” the Lebanese Islamic movement that warred with the Israeli military in 2006 and is now fighting alongside government forces in Syria.