by Salman Rafi Sheikh, … with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow
[ Editor’s note: This article is a classic case of a moving story. While Sheikh has a good analysis of the ceasefire intricacies at the time it began, we now have some 20/20 hindsight after it lasted only a week.
Right out of the gun, Israel denied after a day that it was not part of the ceasefire, revealing how little influence even the US and Russia together have over Israel. The reason of course is that no action is ever taken against Israel for its own Syrian aggression, so with that record, why would the Zios care what they think as long as they don’t do…