Israel is being asked to step up support for Ukraine from weeping diplomats and war victims pleading for the country’s Iron Dome technology on live television.
Yevgen Korniychuk, Ukraine’s ambassador to Israel, donned an Israeli army helmet at a recent press conference at which he praised Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett—who has become an unlikely mediator between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin—but complained about Israel’s refusal to send his country non-lethal military aid, including helmets, bullet-proof vests andThe game-changing Iron Dome system, developed jointly by the United States and Israel...
and Putin to announce any contacts, keeping his few comments on foreign affairs to the parallel talks underway in Vienna, where a renewed nuclear deal with Iran, which Israel opposes, is reportedly close at hand., which largely identifies with Ukraine, are met with explanations about Israel’s unique situation vis-à-vis Russia, and the blank wall of realpolitik.
“Israeli leaders have to maneuver between those two. Of course, public opinion is untethered from these interests. With ex-Ukrainians pretty dominant in the public sphere, worried for their families, and when you see how the dictator Putin is about to take over another country, most of Israel see themselves as part of what we used to call, in Cold War days, the free world.”
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