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| Israel defence secretary Moshe Ya'alon (left) with his US counterpart, Chuck Hagel. The EU has agreed to lift its arms embargo on Syria's rebels |
guardian | Russia
said on Tuesday that it would supply one of its most advanced
anti-aircraft missiles to the Syrian government hours after the EU ended
its arms embargo on the country's rebels, raising the prospect of a
rapidly escalating proxy war in the region if peace talks fail in Geneva
next month.
Israel quickly issued a thinly veiled warning that it would bomb the Russian S-300s if they were deployed in Syria as such a move would bring the advanced guided missiles within range of civilian and military planes in Israeli air space.
"The
shipments haven't set out yet and I hope they won't," Moshe Ya'alon,
the Israeli defence minister, said. "If they do arrive in Syria, God
forbid, we'll know what to do."
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