{"id":16224,"date":"2018-09-24T23:26:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T23:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16224"},"modified":"2018-09-24T23:26:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T23:26:11","slug":"can-russia-curb-israels-actions-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16224","title":{"rendered":"Can Russia curb Israel&#8217;s actions in Syria?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"84.6566104703\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/russia.html\">Russia<\/a> is the main ally of Syrian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/middleeast\/2007\/07\/200852518514154964.html\">President Bashar Al Assad<\/a>, who Israel has repeatedly targeted.<\/p>\n<p>Russia sells arms to Iran and supports the nuclear deal with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/iran.html\">Tehran<\/a> &#8211; which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/israel.html\">Israel<\/a> has vociferously lobbied against.<\/p>\n<p>But Russia and Israel have steered clear of confronting each other.<\/p>\n<p>That changed last Monday, when Syrian government forces mistook a Russian reconnaissance plane for an Israeli jet and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/09\/russia-israeli-role-syria-plane-downing-premeditated-180924112220025.html\">shot it down<\/a>, killing all 15 people on-board.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Defence Ministry said Israeli fighter jets deliberately used the Russian plane as cover.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military insists it&#8217;s not to be blamed, adding that it did not &#8220;hide behind any aircraft&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So, how will this incident impact the Russia-Israel relationship?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Elizabeth Puranam<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Samuel Ramani &#8211; Specialist on Russia and Middle East Relations, and a contributor at the Russian International Affairs Council think-tank.<\/p>\n<p>Houchang Hassan-Yari &#8211; Professor of <span>Military<\/span><span>\u00a0and Strategic issues and\u00a0<\/span><span>International Relations<\/span>\u00a0at Oman&#8217;s Sultan Qaboos University.<\/p>\n<p>Asaf Ronel &#8211; Journalist at Haaretz newspaper and its former World News Editor.<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia is the main ally of Syrian President Bashar Al Assad, who Israel has repeatedly targeted. Russia sells arms to Iran and supports the nuclear deal with Tehran &#8211; which Israel has vociferously lobbied against. But Russia and Israel have steered clear of confronting each other. That changed last Monday, when Syrian government forces mistook&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}