Israel has assumed a position of quasi-neutrality on the invasion of Ukraine: condemning it in the United Nations, but refusing to join in U.S. and European sanctions.
On Saturday night, while Russian forces entered the Ukrainian city of Volnovakha, and blocked convoys of food and medicine intended for the nearby besieged city of Mariupol,, called Naftali Bennett, the Israeli Prime Minister. The two spoke for more than an hour and discussed, Zelensky tweeted, “Russian aggression and the prospects for peace talks”—which, earlier in the day, Zelensky had suggested might take place in Jerusalem.
So what can Bennett do, other than provide Zelensky an ear to convey his desperation, and Putin a voice to amplify his ultimatum? Bennett, whose government has a shaky one-vote majority in the Knesset, has reasons to present himself as a trusted statesman, which is how his predecessor, Benjamin Netanyahu, soldto Israeli voters. But, so far, Putin seems far from wanting a peace process, in spite of continuing talks.
Bennett’s office firmly denied the reports; a Zelensky adviser tweeted a more cryptic response, saying that Israel, “just as other conditional intermediary countries, does NOT offer Ukraine to agree to any demands of the Russian Federation.” But, in a statement on Saturday night, the Ukrainian Defense Minister, Oleksiy Reznikov, seemed to suggest that Zelensky—when expressing gratitude for Bennett’s interventions, or even speculating about a Jerusalem summit—was being, well, diplomatic.
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