Dan Shapiro in The New York Post: “How to make Russia back off in the Middle East”

September 25, 2018 | Opinion For the first time in decades, Israel finds itself on the receiving end of Russian threats. The tensions follow the downing last week of a Russian Ilyushin IL-20 military aircraft, and the deaths of its 15 crew members, by Syrian air-defense batteries responding to Israeli airstrikes on Iranian weapons shipments in Syria. A crisis like this one cries out for US diplomacy to help manage it. So far, there’s no sign of it. Two things have [...]