Why Benjamin Netanyahu stays quite on Russian policy in Syria

Israel has purposefully remained silent while Russia amasses forces near its northern border and works intensively to help Bashar Assad's regime, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained in a recent interview with CNN.
When asked why Israel hasn't condemned the Russian invasion to Crimea, Netanyahu replied that Israel has enough problems and it wasn't interested in opening up another front.
Netanyahu mentioned his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin last month, which ended with the two agreeing on coordination of military activity in Syria's skies, saying that he went to Moscow in order to clarify the point that the two countries should avoid entering a conflict with each other.

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