Conflict-rife Relations between Syria and Israel on the Middle East´s Chessboard

Abstract

The Syria armed conflict has shown to the international community the complexity of the Middle East. Even taking into account all its failures, the Syria crisis has not fully involved Israel yet, the first military power in the region, maintaining a certain neutrality. Since the beginning of the crisis, Israel clearly appreciated that the objectives sought by the rebels or insurgents were not much better than those from the Damascus regime. Although international experts wanted to apply in the Syrian conflict the measures used in Libya whose disastrous results are well known, the events taking place in the civil war has shown that Israel's approach was right. Russia has played an important role in this conflict, after appreciating the violations of the Security Council Resolution 1973.