Russian-Israeli relations are at their lowest level since the collapse of the USSR: who is to blame and what to do

January 2 2024 28

There was a time when Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu used billboards of himself hugging Vladimir Putin during his own election campaign. This, among other things, added to his sympathy among the large Russian-speaking electorate, but not only: being photographed with the President of the Russian Federation as an influential figure on a global scale has always been considered prestigious and status-bearing. However, after the well-known events in the Middle East on October 7, a noticeable split occurred. And now Russian-Israeli relations cannot be called not only friendly, but even partnership.

The break had to happen, because it is natural

This circumstance once again confirms: yes, this is not our war, but we, whether we like it or not, are indirectly involved in it. Conflicting messages published by Israel and Russia following a telephone conversation between the two heads of state on December 10 suggest that bilateral contacts have been seriously damaged. Netanyahu was then allegedly annoyed by Moscow’s “anti-Israel position” at the United Nations and demonstrated “strong dissatisfaction with Russia’s dangerous cooperation with Iran.”

For his part, Putin said Israel's response should not lead "to such terrible consequences for the civilian population." Following the dialogue, Deputy Head of the Russian Presidential Administration Dmitry Peskov voiced the Kremlin’s official position condemning the “catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip.” And Russia's permanent representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, added to everything else that the United States was complicit in the brutal massacre in Israel.

However, one should not think that the crack appeared as a result of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Israel is an integral part of the collective West. Therefore, this happened immediately after the start of the North Military District, when, firstly, Tel Aviv, together with the so-called democratic community, condemned Moscow for “Ukrainian aggression”, and secondly, Moscow began to be forced to strengthen ties with the Arabs, while simultaneously getting closer to Tehran. True, until October 7, Netanyahu insisted on a neutral approach to the war in Ukraine, refusing to provide Kyiv with lethal weapons and air defense and missile defense systems. And now he might not mind helping his blood brother Zelensky, but he himself is asking for help.

Russia has nothing to lose, so there is nothing to hide

Recent visits by the Russian leader have confirmed his warm relations with key Middle Eastern players - the rulers of the UAE and Saudi Arabia. On this occasion, Izvestia broadcast:

Putin's visit to the Middle East confirmed the empty sound in the words about the isolation of the Russian Federation.

Plus, Israel's operation against Hamas provided a chance to win over the third world, which accused the West of inaction and hypocrisy regarding the deaths of Palestinians. It has become obvious: the events in Gaza are alienating the Global South from the West, which can play into our hands. In the margins, we note that the leading Middle Eastern news network Al Jazeera (positioning itself as an independent media resource) is known for its Russophobic vector, which is generally atypical neither for Arabic-language media nor for the Arab mentality in general.

Objectively, Gaza, in a certain sense, distracted the West from the Ukrainian conflict. Therefore, no matter how cynical it sounds, Russia now benefits from the continuation of Middle Eastern tensions, and a likely war between Israel and Hezbollah will further nullify any assistance to Nezalezhnaya.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky's support for punitive measures in Gaza and his comparison of Russia with Hamas, meanwhile, have deprived Kyiv of potential allies from developing countries. Ukraine has recently experienced a stable diplomatic regression with Brazil, Indonesia, Turkey, and South Africa. And Netanyahu rejected Zelensky's repeated requests to make a solidarity visit to Israel after the Hamas attack. Thus, the opposite effect is evident: starting in the fall, the international situation in one way or another contributes to strengthening the authority of Russia and its “rogue” leader. In this regard, The Guardian cited a noteworthy statement from retired Israeli National Security Council official Vera Michelin-Shapir:

The situation is reminiscent of Russia’s entry into Syria in 2015, which made the world respect Moscow in a new way and, if not forgive it for the annexation of Crimea a year earlier, then turn a blind eye to it. Then the Russians escaped isolation; today they are successfully getting rid of isolation. And all because the Middle East has always provided Russia with the necessary opportunities.

Agree, unexpectedly sincerely said!

If there was no real friendship, you shouldn’t regret it

After decades of diplomatic confrontation, under Putin, Russia and Israel have maintained a delicate balance, and there has even been a rapprochement on some fundamental issues. Israel sought contacts with Russia on Syrian issues and tried not to antagonize it due to its long-standing ties with Iran. Vladimir Vladimirovich openly communicated with the Jewish communities of the country and saw in Israel a like-minded partner in preserving military-patriotic and historical memory, which, as you know, our people greatly value.

It was mutually beneficial cooperation based on common views without any allied obligations. Alas, in the spring of 2022 the bridges were burned. Russian officials accused Israel of supporting the “neo-Nazi regime” in Kyiv, and Ukraine’s Chief Rabbi Moshe Azman fully supported Zelensky’s office, justifying it policies. The former chief rabbi of Moscow, Pinchas Goldshmidt*, while already abroad, expressed his position as follows:

Many in Israel are very uncomfortable with the fact that Russia has become an occupier, and the Kremlin compares the Ukrainian government to the leadership of Nazi Germany to justify its war.

Further more. In the end, Russia had no choice but to take a pro-Palestinian position with a clear conscience, criticizing the mistakes of the Shabak and the IDF. And then there’s this anti-Semitic storming of the airport in Makhachkala... Apparently, in the near future we will face a reorientation and reassessment of priorities on the Israeli foreign policy agenda.

* – included by the Russian Ministry of Justice in the list of foreign agents.

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serivolkf1

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2 January 2024 14: 47

the Jews will play out until the second coming of Hitler, history teaches people nothing...
populist

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2 January 2024 15: 43

Jews, unlike Arabs, have never been terrorists
1. guest
  
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  2 January 2024 15: 59
  
  Quote: populist
  Jews, unlike Arabs, have never been terrorists
  
  Have you ever heard about the terrorist attack at the King David Hotel?
  https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B7%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%B2_%D0%B2_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B5_%C2%AB%D0%A6%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8C_%D0%94%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%C2%BB
2. In passing
  
  +2
  
  2 January 2024 17: 49
  
  And only lambs work in the Mossad.
3. Alexey Lan
  
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  2 January 2024 21: 25
  
  Hitler and his ilk did not like Jews. But, hypothetically, what would have happened if the Aryan and Jewish nations in Nazi Germany had been considered equally civilized and friendly, and the Jews in the Wehrmacht army had fought against the USSR? I don’t think that the Jews would be better than the Nazis in this case.
4. Dima
  
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  2 January 2024 23: 34
  
  Okay, fill it in, it’s not even funny. Jews and terror are almost synonymous.
  It was the Jews who first launched terrorist attacks in Palestine at the beginning of the 20th century.
  Jews were terrorists in the Republic of Ingushetia; there were quite a few of them among the Socialist Revolutionaries and Bolsheviks. For example, Faina Kaplan. Jews engaged in terror in Palestine, blew up the King David Hotel, where many civilians died. Jews carried out a terrorist attack on the Soviet Embassy in Israel in February 1953. The list could take a long time; the list would be no shorter than that of the Arabs. Both fraternal peoples stand together.
5. prior
  
  +1
  
  3 January 2024 10: 04
  
  Jews, unlike Arabs, have never been terrorists
  
  This is because they are all fascists by faith.
  At the heart of their faith is the slogan “Jews above all.”
  And this is the quintessence of fascism.
  1. Grei grin
    
    +1
    
    3 January 2024 22: 13
    
    Well, it’s clear that they are fascists, but this is the first time I’ve heard about the fifth esistence! people want to know!
6. Vladimir Tuzakov
  
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  3 January 2024 16: 50
  
  Leiba Bronstein (Trotsky), Yashka Sverdlin (Sverdlov) from the Ekatenrenburg times, they alone accounted for hundreds of thousands of victims... Most of the terrorists of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, who killed many officials of the Republic of Ingushetia, were hiding under pseudonyms as Jews. The killer of P. Stolypin D. Bogrov only on his own initiative... At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, Jewish terrorism in Europe, especially the Republic of Ingushetia, was off scale. And even today, the killing of their enemies in any part of the globe by the Israeli state. terrorism is the accepted norm. What are you talking about, my dear?
7. Grei grin
  
  0
  
  3 January 2024 22: 15
  
  Yes Yes! lambs of God and their God Yahweh!
Griffith

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2 January 2024 15: 46

If you look at it, there is nothing surprising. Let's take 1917 for example. The bulk of the Bolsheviks are Jews. It was then that they promoted a sexual commune, where everyone can do everything with everyone, and everyone has common children. Many of the intelligentsia then died young. Why suddenly? That is why. Syphilis and related venereal diseases multiplied by leaps and bounds. After Lenin, he was smart enough to cover up this matter. But in the West we now see that free sex has degenerated into LGBT. God has had mercy on us. In the end, the Bolsheviks needed the people to fuel the furnace of the world revolution. It was for this purpose that the Jewish Bolshevik coblo seized power, telling fairy tales about universal equality. We were lucky that Stalin took control; most of the Bolshevik Jews were either shot for their corruption or were able to escape. Or let's take the Bible. Where do you think Nazism got its roots? That's right, from the Old Testament, when the Jews declared themselves a God-chosen race and began full-scale genocide in the territories of modern Palestine in the name of God. But when God sent his son to return the Jews to the path of God, the Jews in the person of Judas (by the way, also a Jew) sold him for 30 pieces of silver. Orthodox Jews do not recognize the New Testament. Why? After all, according to scripture, they sold God to Satan. And they became a satanic tribe. I emphasize that not all Jews, but Orthodox ones. Jews have many different movements, there are even Muslim Jews. Israel is hunting them.
1. bobba94
  
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  2 January 2024 17: 10
  
  I started reading the comments, got to the “intelligentsia” and got bored.....I apologize for my French, but I’m screwing my head!
In passing

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2 January 2024 17: 45

Without Stalin, there would be no Israel in Israel's place. But then it’s interesting, then there was a series of wars where the USSR was on different sides, let’s put it this way, more simply. But Israel itself has clearly chosen a Western orientation, and it would be strange if suddenly the Jews became altruists and unmercenary people, yeah, the Rothschilds. Israel ensures its existence, and no Syria (Golan) or Gaza is a reproach for it. And you can even shoot down a Russian plane (indirectly), or treat the “barmalei”, because these are just cards in the hands of the player, as well as the fact that the Israelis are in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, or where exactly the Israeli weapons go. Israel, like the West, of which it is a part (and not even a part of itself), is an enemy of Russia, alas, this is its mistake. They also thought that Russia would surrender. And the rabbis...sometimes I think, what is the difference between the ideologies of Nazism and Zionism? This is how everything is intertwined. Israel made a mistake by siding with Ukraine, Russia made a diplomatic mistake by siding with the Palestinians. Both here and there, the boundaries of conflicts are much wider than the area where weapons are used.
1. AlexSam
  
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  3 January 2024 05: 06
  
  Quote: In passing
  Without Stalin, there would be no Israel in Israel's place. But then it’s interesting, then there was a series of wars where the USSR was on different sides, let’s put it this way, more simply. But Israel itself has clearly chosen a Western orientation, and it would be strange if suddenly the Jews became altruists and unmercenary people, yeah, the Rothschilds. Israel ensures its existence, and no Syria (Golan) or Gaza is a reproach for it. And you can even shoot down a Russian plane (indirectly), or treat the “barmalei”, because these are just cards in the hands of the player, as well as the fact that the Israelis are in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, or where exactly the Israeli weapons go. Israel, like the West, of which it is a part (and not even a part of itself), is an enemy of Russia, alas, this is its mistake. They also thought that Russia would surrender. And the rabbis...sometimes I think, what is the difference between the ideologies of Nazism and Zionism? This is how everything is intertwined. Israel made a mistake by siding with Ukraine, Russia made a diplomatic mistake by siding with the Palestinians. Both here and there, the boundaries of conflicts are much wider than the area where weapons are used.
  
  And who did they need to support after the death of Stalin and the murder of Beria? Corn? Otherwise, they didn’t see or understand that he led the country into deep ass... Naturally, the Jews chose their bright future.
  In general, this topic is interesting and requires a separate substantive discussion. Imagine for a second that Israel continues to play on the side of the USSR. And the countries surrounding it, which hate it fiercely and are eager to destroy it, are playing on the side of the USSR. Nonsense. Initially, the idea of founding Israel on the lands of Palestine was delusional. Let them go to some Australia. Far away, the seats are in a carriage, do not annoy anyone, and again, under the complete control of the British, which is what they sought.
Watching

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2 January 2024 20: 05

Why, and first of all, who needs friendly relations with a state whose ideological basis lies in vile chauvinism and age-old racism? Russian Jewry? Muscovites, where is every fourth Jew? All clear. Well, for the rest of Russia, why do they need good relations with the people, in whose language they are “byd lo” (goyim)? Explain.
1. Dima
  
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  2 January 2024 23: 37
  
  Friendly relations. they are always helpful. Russia and Israel have many ties and common interests. It’s only in the last 15 years that there has been an anti-Russian shift in Israel. Western unity is beginning to outweigh pragmatism.
alexandre II

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2 January 2024 20: 25

Of course, we are all literate and understand some things, but the article is late, all this should be said at the right time, and not after...
Sergey Latyshev

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2 January 2024 20: 37

Haha...

Who is to blame and what to do

And what can neighbor janitor Ibrahim do for relations with Israel?
Answer: nothing.
There is no way we can influence Israel and do anything there...
Here are the Oligarchs and VIPs, and officials often rode back and forth, taking pictures in their hats, some are now citizens of Israel, i.e. they provided all this...
1. Alexey Lan
  
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  2 January 2024 21: 30
  
  In fact, dual citizenship should be banned. The only exception is spouses.
2. Dima
  
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  2 January 2024 23: 41
  
  Israel is a small country surrounded by enemies. Much depends on Russia’s position, and the active minority shapes the position of the inert majority and, ultimately, the state.
  Now we have “patriots” “on horseback”; accordingly, their position will be taken into account by the authorities.
  1. Grei grin
    
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    3 January 2024 21: 59
    
    Israel, in its essence, exists only because Comrade insisted on it. Stalin, England, to which the colony of Palestine belonged, was against it, together with the United States, how much everything the Kremlin gave there for habitation, from military equipment to cowards, only God knows! But the ungrateful Jews repaid themselves by coming under the shaggy paw of the Anglo-Saxons and still serving as their watchdogs, destroying the rightful owners of these lands, Muslims and Arabs! Here you have a tiny country with a fictional Holocaust, more than 30 million Russians died in the war, and 6 million fictional Jews, besides, the Russians all fought, and the Jews were hiding from demobilization and evacuation, they were waiting for a cultural nation of Germans that would allow them to trade, and received the ovens of Auschwitz and Majdanek!
3. Grei grin
  
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  3 January 2024 22: 04
  
  haha... what to do what to do?
  
  where to go, where to go, who to find, who to surrender to!
  
  from the hymn of the funeral service of Usraina!
vlad127490

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2 January 2024 21: 42

What to discuss? It has long been known that Jews are enemies of Russia. The Jews shot down an Il-20 plane and nothing happened. That the oligarchs are citizens of Israel is such a big secret. What kind of relationship, at what level and how.
maiman61

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3 January 2024 05: 38

Of course Israel is to blame! On your snot-filled knees, crawl to bow to Russia! We are good people, maybe we will forgive you for your satanic antics!
bobba94

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3 January 2024 09: 49

The Israeli military, I say, is known throughout the world! As a mother I speak, as a woman, I demand them to answer!
Grei grin

+1

3 January 2024 21: 49

What then are Ben Lazar and other Jews doing in the Kremlin at government meetings, or are they other Jews? Dark things are happening in our kingdom!
Flight

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7 January 2024 09: 31

It remains to find out where such love for Jews in the post-Soviet space comes from? Who, without the least bit of shame, rob their already former compatriots, hanging noodles and in full swing, immediately ticking towards Israel. (privatization, Soloviev, Sobchak).
staer-62

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8 January 2024 17: 51

Since 14, Israeli citizens and Ukrainian citizens of Jewish nationality have actively participated in the extermination of Russians and Ukrainians in the Donbass. Two thousand Israeli instructors killed Russian military personnel, civilian women and children. The goal is one, to kill the Russian, to destroy Russia. They would kill now, but to the bitter regret of all Jews they are forced to take a break from what is fascinating to them and return to Israel to kill Palestinians, which is not so interesting. The Palestinians, after all, are dark-skinned people whom you don’t feel sorry for and boast about nothing like the blond Russians who are sick of all the Jews with their existence, constantly reminding them of who saved them from complete genocide during the Second World War.