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Source: Middle East Monitor
Are Russia-Israel relations facing a temporary challenge or definite deterioration?
Demonstrators gather at Habima Square in the centre of Israel's Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv on March 20, 2022 to attend a televised video address by Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky to the Israeli Knesset [JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images]
By Dr Mohammad Makram Balawi | April 28, 2022
Israel sees an existential threat in everything, because it is a state like no other; it cannot close its eyes at night and sleep soundly when the rest of the world is stormy. It was created after decades of a game between superpowers, and it maintains this balancing act today. This is very obvious during the war in Ukraine where, under pressure from the West, Israel is tending to favour the Ukrainians while hoping that Moscow understands the reasons why.
However, relations between Russia and Israel are deteriorating very fast as Tel Aviv has been forced to choose which side it is on. Claiming that the occupation state could act as a mediator between Russia and Ukraine is unrealistic; the war in Ukraine is not merely a dispute between neighbours, but a confrontation between the creators of Israel — Western Europe and the US — on one hand, and Russia on the other. Israel, of course, is indebted for its creation and ongoing existence to the Western Bloc, and no matter how much it proclaims its neutrality, the Russians know where its loyalties will eventually lie.
Israel's position on the Ukrainian war was revealed by a comment from Foreign Minister Yair Lapid which Moscow believed to be anti-Russia and biased towards Kyiv. "It is impossible to remain indifferent in the face of the horrific images from the city of Bucha near Kyiv after the Russian army left," tweeted Lapid. "Intentionally harming a civilian population is a war crime and I strongly condemn it." Palestinian civilians noted the hypocrisy and irony of Lapid's words. Israel also supported the UN General Assembly move to suspend Russia's membership of the Human Rights Council, and sent aid to Ukraine.
READ: Russia warns Israel against supplying Ukraine with defensive gear
Russia responded by describing Israel's position as "a poorly camouflaged attempt to take advantage of the situation in Ukraine to distract the international community's attention from one of the oldest unsettled conflicts – the Palestinian-Israeli one." It criticised Israeli policies and actions in the West Bank, stressing that it is part of the occupied Palestinian territories according to international law. Moscow also accused Israel of violating resolutions of both the UN Security Council and General Assembly by continuing its illegal occupation and creeping annexation of Palestinian land. The Russian foreign ministry pointed out that, as a result, more than 2.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank are now isolated from the rest of the world in separate enclaves. The ministry also criticised the Israeli land, sea and air blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip for 14 years and accused it of turning the coastal territory into an "open prison".
Israel's selective humanitarian façade: welcoming Ukrainians – Cartoon [Sabaaneh/Middle East Monitor]
Moreover, Russia has demanded that the Israeli occupation authorities should register the ownership of the Old City of Jerusalem's Church of St Alexander Nevsky in the name of the Russian state, a matter over which Israel has been procrastinating to such an extent that President Vladimir Putin sent a personal letter to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett insisting that this should be done immediately. In fact, it was supposed to have been done two years ago as part of a deal for the release of an Israeli-American citizen detained in Russia on drug charges. In a similar vein, Putin has condemned Israel's escalation of violence at Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem and has assured Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that Russia will support the Palestinians in the international arena.
Israel knows that Moscow has many cards in its hand, and losing Russia will have a price to pay, not least in Syria. Russia's permanent representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, warned Israel during a meeting of UN Security Council that its "settlement plans in occupied Syrian Golan threaten to undermine regional stability." Of course, Russia's stand on the occupied status of the Golan Heights is not new, but this time Nebenzya's warning was in a different context altogether.
From Ukraine to Palestine: The boycotting double standard
Israel is taking part in the US-led Ukraine defence summit where it will not be represented by Defence Minister Benny Gantz, a retired Chief of General Staff, but by a senior serving army officer. According to the Jerusalem Post, Gantz will be taking part in Holocaust Remembrance Day instead.
Please go to Middle East Monitor to read more.
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Have a look at these "Nazi" mercenaries from Israel who went to Ukraine to participate in killing Russian soldiers. We anticipate them to be shipped back to Israel in bloody shards of flesh packed on ice in small chilled boxes.
The Russians will not apologize.
Israeli youth want out:
Breitbart News would know wouldn't they? Conceived in Israel and born in the USA.
'New Low' for Antisemitism: Israel Slams Russia over Claim Hitler Had Jewish Blood
Breitbart News Network: Born In The USA, Conceived In Israel
The west especially the US can no longer contain the purging of what is actually going on in the world with all of these insane criminal psychopathic private networks that is about to explode in Ukraine. This is why the US corporate hierarchy that has been mostly privatized now has their own "ministry of truth."
The new head of the ministry of truth has a long history of spreading misinformation.
'New Low' for Antisemitism: Israel Slams Russia over Claim Hitler Had Jewish Blood
Breitbart News Network: Born In The USA, Conceived In Israel
The west especially the US can no longer contain the purging of what is actually going on in the world with all of these insane criminal psychopathic private networks that is about to explode in Ukraine. This is why the US corporate hierarchy that has been mostly privatized now has their own "ministry of truth."
The new head of the ministry of truth has a long history of spreading misinformation.
Related to Israel:
Now that the world's attention is on Ukraine the Israelis have been busy in Syria and Lebanon as well as on Gaza. And that's the way it has been for 70 years: bombing and shelling, bombing and shelling, bombing and shelling on their way to the return of their Messiah....
For whatever historical reasons the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin help to create Israel, present day Russians are probably wondering why as well? Is Russia really Israel's foe? It appears we are about to find out.
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