to men who are as they used to the israelis do have some considerable leverage with the russians mr ramani how much action you know can russia take against israel given things like we had from israeli minister. earlier this year who was very quick to remind russia that. you know israel didn't join and western sanctions against russia for its actions in crimea it didn't kick russian ambassadors and diplomats out of its country like a lot of other countries did following the poisoning of the former russian spy in england. i think israel has many points of leverage that are suresh are first of all and most the most proximate is that israel can launch another set of airstrikes against military defenses or against iranian military defenses in selden syria could kill many or any revolutionary guard members who are vital for russia's military campaign may tenth that's the most proximate example in other ways is it reveals important to russia because it's a major trade partner in the middle east is also very important partner for russia's broader collective security goal russia wants to be involve

anti missile defense systems that they previously had and mr ramani is this to keep russian plane safe or to curtail israel's freedom of movement and syria. i think that this is the two prong message firstly it is to keep the russian jets safe because they've argued that the s two hundred is radius and zone of influence is inadequate and the s three hundred can extend to two hundred fifty kilometers which would give them a greater degree of security but i also think that this is a warning shot that's being fired at israel much like the way russia did not react very strongly to the americans allegedly killing three hundred russian mercenaries a few months back russia's basically trying to warn israel that if there is another violation of the convictions and they will be serious consequences and making an unprecedented step by delivering equipment that would only been used by the russian military to another forest and one of israel's arch enemies bashar al assad is a very clear way of making that warning shot mr now how do you think israel is going to respond now to these anti missile de

relations or escalate or drastically it doesn't want retaliation from jerusalem but will russia mr ramani continue to you know turn the other way as it has been so far in this conflict it doesn't sound from like it's going to at all from what other guests a saying i think that the russian defense ministry certainly will be a lot more aggressive towards israel for a period of time and russia could retaliate by potentially not supporting israel on un resolutions about the settlements it could retaliate by more directly providing military assistance and that could be threatening and quite scary for israel i think in the very long term if you're looking past a few months i think ultimately they'll be some kind of a normalization and some kind of consensus will be reached regarding to him flexion and this kind of crisis while simply simmer down with a warning that if israel violates the convictions on again the consequences will be much more severe lesser but now what do you make of that is this just you know a minor cop in the historic relationship between these two countries. thing that firs

anti missile defense systems that they previously had and mr ramani is this to keep russian planes safe or to curtail israel's freedom of movement and syria. i think that the two prong message firstly it is to keep the russian jets safe because they've argued that the s two hundred radius and zone of influence is inadequate and the s three hundred can extend to two hundred fifty kilometers which would give them a greater degree of security but i also think that this is a warning shot that's being fired at israel much like the way russia did not react very strongly to the americans allegedly killing three hundred russian mercenaries a few months back russia's basically trying to warn israel that if there is another violation of the convictions on they'll be serious consequences and making an unprecedented step by delivering equipment that would only been used by the russian military to another forest and one of israel's arch enemies bashar al assad is a very clear way of making that warning shot mr now how do you think israel is going to respond now to these anti missile defense systems