Israel has rejected a request from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to visit the country that was made in the wake of the October 7 Hamas attack, The Times of Israel reported on Monday.
Axios reported last week that Zelensky requested to make the trip to Israel in a show of solidarity. Citing Hebrew-language reports, the Times said Zelensky was told “the time is not right” for a visit.
Zelensky has issued statements expressing support for Israel and even compared Hamas to Russia. His strong support for Israel came despite diplomatic tensions that have built between Kyiv and Tel Aviv over Israel’s refusal to provide direct military aid to Ukraine.
The rejection of Zelensky’s request to visit Israel comes as Ukrainian officials are worried the Gaza war will decrease US support for its war with Russia. Last week, Zelensky expressed concern about the situation in Gaza diverting attention from Ukraine, saying, “Of course, everybody’s afraid, and I think also Russia’s counting on it, on dividing support.”
Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine’s military intelligence, has said if the war in Gaza drags on, “it is quite clear that there will be certain problems with the fact that it will be necessary to supply weapons and ammunition not only to Ukraine.”
Huh, okay. I guess this diplomatic spat is a thing thats happening now. As the world comes together to condemn Hamas’s unjustifiable terrorism and support Israel, we cant allow divisions allowed to divide us, as we can only wish the brave souls of the Israeli Defense Forces godspeed in their mission.
Brave souls of the Israeli Defense Forces……LOL
One military empire, indivisible, with entangling alliances and justifiable terrorism for all.
Tell us again about the beheaded babies … the rave rapists … the NBC dox -Hamas battle orders to attack schools -on the Sabath!!, and slaughter the children … tell us how the godsped IDF special forces slaughtered terrorists -along with their Israeli hostages. How it makes the blood of the godsped IDF lust to exact vengeance on terrorist babies, mothers, etc.. Tell us how the terrorists deny the right to exist to the 19th cent. colonial race-state that has stolen their land and killed and displaced their population into destitution.
brave souls of the Israeli Defense Forces
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Why should isolated individual cases of violence and/or extremism be an indictment against the state of Israel while the actual “Palestinian” pseudo-governments can openly call for the genocide of the Jewish people and commit, fund, and support violent acts of terrorism to further this goal. This is a deliberate distortion and should be treated as such.
“Why should isolated individual cases of violence and/or extremism be an indictment against the state of Israel”
Because that is exactly what it is. And they add up. Israeli terrorism makes Palestinian terrorism look amateurish. They just use better toys provided by the king of the terrorists, the US.
As of August, about seven times as many Palestinian Arabs had been killed by Israelis this year as vice versa.
One interesting tidbit from that same story, though, that provides a clue to why Hamas picked this particular time to try to bait the Israelis into maximum brutality:
“Gazans have been facing higher-than-normal electricity shortages lasting up to 12 hours a day, amid lack of capacity to meet soaring summertime demands. Additional funding by Qatar has increased supply by nearly two hours a day. The power cuts sparked mass protests against Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, under blockade now for over 17 years. Thousands took to the streets on 30 July, and videos showing Hamas security forces beating protestors were widely circulated. In response, Hamas led counter-protests against Israel. Hamas also sentenced seven civilians in Gaza to death for collaborating with Israel.”
When Gazans start acting like they’re sick and tired of being ruled by Hamas, Hamas always plays the “how do we make them more angry at Israel than they are at us” card.
Hilarious. Before Hamas struck back Israel had already killed 250 Palestinians this year alone. Israel has killed thousands.
Israelis walk into Palestinian homes and steal them. There are YouTube videos where they proudly proclaim that’s what they are doing. “We want to make East Jerusalem like West Jerusalem.” An Arab woman has her apartment taken from her, all her furniture, by fanatics. The Israeli government supports the thieves.
“If I don’t take it someone else will” a Zionist says in another video, after he has stolen a house with a garden.
They have systematically destroyed the Palestinian economy. They dug up Palestine’s olive groves, when olive trees take 12 years to grow before they bear fruit. They dig up water pipes and cut off electricity. Many Palestinians live with only four hours of electricity per year.
Israelis murder protesters by the Gaza border, and also murder nurses trying to help, and reporters who are simply there to observe and report on the crimes.
All this is allowed by the criminal regime.
Now your fellow Zionists are bombing apartment buildings and hospitals. Palestinians had repaired the Gaza Tower since the last time the criminals attacked it, and they spent their savings and borrowed to pay for their apartments. Now the criminals have destroyed it completely. The criminal regime is carrying out the fever dream of the extremist “Jewish Power” and Judaist coalition parties. They openly talk about ethnic cleansing and mass murder.
A video from an Israeli wedding showed them celebrating that a Palestinian baby was burned to death.
So take your propaganda elsewhere, buddy. It doesn’t work when people are informed.
Why should isolated individual cases of violence and/or extremism be an indictment against the state of Israel while the actual “Palestinian” pseudo-governments can openly call for the genocide of the Jewish people and commit, fund, and support violent acts of terrorism to further this goal. Furthermore, if you are talking about the same “protests” I think your talking about, Israeli snipers specifically targeted people’s legs in order to prevent the loss of life. If you are referring to the “Al-Jazeera” journalist (their name literally translates to “Arabian peninsula”), they were not “murdered”, they were practically in the middle of an active shootout between Israeli Defense Forces and “Palestinians” they were trying to cover in which they unfortunately did not survive (they appeared to have died from stray gunfire but the specific side is still unconfirmed). You’d have to elaborate on the nurse claim as I haven’t heard it before, but I have confidence that whatever it was it does not invalidate the overwhelmingly restrained and reasonable Israeli Defense Forces in their anti-terrorism and counter-genocide operations. This comment is a distortion and should be treated as such.
Any reader ever try deploying one bowl of food for two pet cats?
Israel Rejects Zelensky Visit
“I Snub You”
…. Iggy Pop
Selling arms has replaced selling oil for building empires.
Israel could have at least accepted the Zell boy request for a night of standup comedy in one of Tel Aviv clubs…!
Can’t he just do his little green screen hologram act?
I’d recommend a blue screen. His penchant for green costume would make him look like a literal figurehead on screen.
Z trying to latch on to Israel in another desperate attempt to be on an equal footing with Israel for American largesse.
Awful, it’s like he was excluded from sitting at the “Mean girl’s table” in the high school cafeteria. He should just trade those olive drab shirts in for a hawaiian shirt and a one way ticket to the Caribbean.
Not so soon – his 4th Reich back in Kiev hasn’t fallen yet. P4L Zelenskiyy will flee to a comfy retirement on the last chopper from the palace roof.
If late-night hosts weren’t just Biden propagandists they’d make jokes about Zelensky inviting himself to your kids’ birthday party and your grandmother’s funeral.
I miss the days before Stephen Colbert became court-jester for the Democratic Party.