The incident will not cause a confrontation with Russia, former director of Military Intelligence said.
If Israel carried out the air strike on an airfield near Homs Monday, it was motivated by a desire to combat Iran’s buildup of military capabilities in Syria and also to signal the Assad regime that its use of chemical weapons carries a heavy price, according to Amos Yadlin, head of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) and a former director of Military Intelligence. The attack, which was blamed by both Russia and Syria on Israel, came amid high tensions over a suspected Syrian chemical-weapons attack in the Damascus suburb of Douma that reportedly killed dozens of people and wounded hundreds. It was not immediately clear if and how the US would respond, but Washington denied responsibility for the strike on the T-4 airfield.
