Ukrainian President Zelensky spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu by phone on Thursday. The leaders discussed how Tel Aviv could support Kyiv’s fight against Russia and the potential deployment of Israeli police to Ukraine to support Jewish pilgrims.
According to a press release from Zelensky’s office, the Ukrainian leader requested more assistance from Netanyahu. “The President emphasized the importance of Israel’s support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” the press release said. “The parties discussed possible ways for Israel to support Ukraine in countering Russia’s invasion.”
Netanyahu’s office said Zelensky requested air defenses. “The two leaders discussed the continuation of Israeli assistance to Ukraine, including… the advancement of development assistance of civilian air defense systems,” Tel Aviv wrote in its statement on the call.
The leaders also discussed the possibility of Tel Aviv sending Israeli police to Ukraine to support Jews making pilgrimages to Uman, a city in central Ukraine. “The Israeli side estimates that about 50,000 Hasidic pilgrims may arrive in Uman this year. It was emphasized that at present, the bomb shelters at the pilgrimage sites in Uman can accommodate only about 11,000 people.” The Ukrainian press releases added, “The possibility of sending additional Israeli police forces to the pilgrimage sites was also discussed.”
Early in the war, Tel Aviv emerged as a potential broker to end the war between Russia and Ukraine. Then-Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett reported that Tel Aviv made significant success in reaching an agreement, including securing concessions from Russian President Vladimir Putin. Bennett said the talks were ultimately squashed by Washington.
Since those negotiations fell through, the White House and Kyiv have pressured Israel to break its longstanding ties with Moscow and provide Ukraine with military support. Israel has provided Ukraine with non-military aid only.
Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com, news editor of the Libertarian Institute, and co-host of Conflicts of Interest.
Wouldn’t it be more sensible of Netanyahu to be discouraging pilgrims to travel to war zone (rather than being manipulated by Zelensky into embroilment)?
“Israel’s support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” from a country that violates other peoples’ “sovereignty and territorial integrity” on a daily basis? I don’t know if I should laugh, cry, or vomit? …So, I decided to do all three at the same time. (Sarcasm)
I have bern training myself to not react. Just like lion cannot help it killing a little gazelle, and no moral judgement applies, so I had to accept that human beingss are different. History and experience shapes us. Some people have a long history of needing no principles. Standards do not exist except as a measure of utility to ourselves.
Norms and standards of relationshios among humans developed strong among thousands years old agricultural cultures that relied on consensus behavior to secure their crops from destruction and accumulate reserves to last until next season. These clans had rules that had rules and tabus to contain agressive urges of young and respect council of old.
States eventually took over the “protection” of agriculture and used the wealth to create stratified societies of rulers, military , rich merchants and religious establishment,
It is amazing but today historians believe that “civilization” does not arrive until such stratified societies were established! It is a shame. Because sovieties that created rules that were based on golden rule were more civilized than societies of people who cannot survive without coercive power of state. And indeed it became a necessity. Those that engaged in governance, soldiering, priesthood, merchants or money changers — had one rule: good is what is good for me.
And until today same drama is playing out. Some find the acts of selfish, cruel and predator begavior nnausiating. Others who engagw in such acts today find it absolutely normal to lie, cheat and steal — and think of us who expect decency and fair play — laughably stupid.
Well said. Especially true when God is on your side. (Sarcasm)
Anthropologically the logic of the present picture is elementary. Without sublimation (Good-True-Beautiful) the behaviour of humans parallels that of the jungle primeval – “nature, red in tooth and claw”, the “food chain”, “strong eat the week”, etc.. Russia still maintains its High Tradition, -History, Church, Arts. The West has disccarded; Bible, Plato, Dante, Shakespeare, …, in favor of scientistic competition and the pleasure principle -“the guy that dies with the most toys wins.” Given this structural logic the “Ukraine War” is overdetermined.
Presidential candidate Dr. Cornel West calls humans a “wretched “ species.
Truer words were never spoken…
It takes very few wretched demons to start world wars. It only took one of them to start both WWI and WWII. There’s bad and there’s a more demonic level of evil bad. I consider myself bad. But I would never start a world war. LOL.
I’m a bad girl myself 😉
I’d have paid money to see that NA 😂
Does Zelensky ever speak to anyone without asking for aid?
No. When I see him talking, I cover my nipples even though I’m a man and never breastfed anyone. …What’s that? …That was too much sharing? (Sarcasm)
Man, that brought a chuckle. Thankfully I wasn’t drinking anything or out the nose it would have come.
😂
I need a chain-mail bra, NA 😳
Well, He could speak about how great life is in Ukraine for everyone but unfortunately his nation was invaded by the alleged second biggest armed force in the world.
Sure, everyone.
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asking… demanding.How about any aid the US gives to Ukraine, comes from money that was to be given to Israel?
did Zelensky discuss Israel’s support for Palestine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity ??
Zelenski has one principle — good is what is good for me. He would rather see Russian people gone, Israeli wants to eventually get rid of Palestinians. Zelenski was impatient. Wanted it faster. I an not sure that he and his enablers acually believed thatvRussia was going to respond and by acting take on the collective West.
And be fully cognizant of the implications.
Israel is too smart to get involved. The only way Israeli’s start providing lethal aid is if the USA pays Israel to do so; plus a premium. Otherwise known as bribes.
Israel sold spy programs to any country that wanted them. It was their spy program that enabled the surveillance of people like Khashoggi who was eventually murdered and chopped to bits.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-israel-pushed-spyware-firms-to-work-with-saudis-despite-khashoggi-murder/
The point being the people they “sold to” actually paid for it. Zelensky doesn’t “pay” for anything; he just “demands stuff” for free. As I said, if WE pay Israel to provide the stuff to Zelensky, they will do it happily, and it won’t come cheap.
Fair.
Israel is already involved (and controls) the US government via Blinken, Nuland, Yellen, Garland, Mayorkas, Haines, Klain, Sherman, Lander, Cohen on and on and on.
Israel can send their settlers, kill two birds with one stone.
Don’t give them any ideas …..
They would be hit by artillery which would be blamed on Russia.
Too far-fetched? Let’s see:
-All foreign dignitaries visiting Kiev are exposed to air-raid alarms, with the claim that “the Russians are bombing us,” so they have to sit in a bomb shelter for a while, which the poor dears describe as “a harrowing experience” and blame on the Russians.
-The Bidensky regime claimed an Ottoman mosque was bombed by Russia, to get Turkey involved. It was false.
-The Bidensky regime claimed a Jewish WWII site was bombed by Russia, to get Israel involved. This was also false.
-They made a big show of a picture of a woman “with blood in her face,” who turned out to be a member of the 72nd Info Warfare Center, as shown in a staff picture.
-They kept Ukrainian refugees holed up in a train station with police cars with sirens driving around outside the windows twice an hour, for the benefit of foreign camera crews inside, even though there were plenty of empty hotels.
-They have bombed the Zapo nuclear plant and blamed it on Russia, even though the Russians hold the power plant and it is needed for electricity to Crimea.
-They bombed the Kherson dam and blamed it on Russia, even though this dam is also needed for Crimea and other liberated Russian land, and blowing up the dam served to sweep away Russian mines by the river bank and to anger the West, claiming the Russians did it.
-And of course, the pipeline to Germany was destroyed just like Biden and Nuland said it would be, and this was blamed on Russia.
You forgot:
-Ukrainians just killed 16 in a market while Beta Boy Blinken was in Kiev and blamed it on Russia just a few days ago.
-At the “Burning Man” fiasco Ukraine used American taxpayer money to install a giant steel phoenix in the fire to symbolize Ukraine raising from the ashes.
-Ukraine attacked Poland and killed two people with an S300 missile and blamed Russia.
-Ukraine hired the Syrian White Helmets to help teach them how to stage false flag events and blame them on Russia.
-On 8 August 2022, Ukraine murdered citizens in town of Bucha and blamed it on Russia: 458 bodies—419 with signs of shooting, torture, or violent trauma.
-Ukraine claimed that the Ghost of Kiev was shooting down Russian jets when the story was fake.
-When António Guterres, the ninth Secretary-General of the United Nations visited Kiev, Ukraine blew up a building near him and blamed the Russians.
-When senile Joey Biden visited Kiev the Ukrainians staged a fake air raid with sirens blaring for 30 minutes and blamed it on Russia.
And on and on and on!
Ukrainians are the most corrupt liars in the world along with Joey Biden!
–“When senile Joey Biden visited Kiev the Ukrainians staged a fake air raid with sirens blaring for 30 minutes and blamed it on Russia.”
They had to let it go for 30 minutes. Joey thought it was just ringing in his ears for the first 29.
Excellent ….
Well you’ll recall folks that ZelBoy wants to turn Ukrainazia into “a big IsraHell “.
And any “aid” rendered by the Apartheid Nation would theoretically STILL be wrung from the pockets of Amerikkkan taxpayers.
That objective is still on the table.
How touching! So they kised and made up? If one ever believed that.