Benjamin Netanyahu wandering the Syrian countryside like he owned the place has backfired, as Russia are now taking out a lease... Right, so Israel has spent months treating the Quneitra frontier like a bit of empty countryside nobody would miss, pushing in a little further each week and assuming Syria would just swallow it because the new leadership has been too busy rebuilding a state in its Al-Qaeda castoff image to fight over every inch of soil. And for a while that was true. Syria tried playing the good diplomatic citizen after sanctions were lifted, tried talking, tried keeping the West onside, and what did it get for that restraint? The Israeli prime minister strolling straight into the UN-monitored buffer zone with cameras rolling, as if the 1974 agreement between the two states was something he could wipe off with a spit polish. Here we  ...