The Premier of Hebrew State, Naftali Bennett, spoke with Vladimir Putin, Saturday, Moscow and traded by phone with Emmanuel Macron. Nothing has filtered from this attempt at mediation, conducted by this almost neophyte in international relations.
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Never has an Israeli prime minister had seized such responsibility. By going to Kremlin, Saturday, March 5, to talk for three hours with Vladimir Putin of the war he leads to Ukraine, Naftali Bennett has left her mouth diplomats and observers in Israel. He holds a historical opportunity for his country, non-assumed nuclear power, Washington’s little ally in the Middle East, talking to the world of something other than himself.
Nothing filtered from the bottom of this mediation, carried out in full Shabbat by this leader from the extreme religious right, former special forces, ex-entrepreneur and Minister of Defense, in office for less than one year. Has Mr. Bennett passed or clarified messages, sought to keep a discussion channel open, to get a ceasefire? In the Council of Ministers on Sunday, it has gone “little chance of success”, but evoked “a moral duty”.
This quasi-neophyte in international relations has merely describe the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the manner of a divine disaster, a natural disaster without causes or responsible. His prudence, constant and unique on the western scene, has recently earned him criticisms from the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as in Israel.
Sunday, Ukraine’s ambassador in his country, Yevgen Kornichuk, “said” grateful “. Mr. Bennett followed “a friendly suggestion” of his country, “he said, by being intercessary after months of contact. With Mr. Zelensky, to whom he refused to deliver weapons before the conflict, that with Mr. Putin, who had refused, before the war, a previous mediation proposal. “Israel is the only democratic state to have excellent relations with both parties. Minsk [Capital Belarusse where opened in 2015 a diplomatic sequence supposed to end the conflict in the Donbass, buried by the Russian invasion] can not More to be a [negotiation] place for us (…). We are looking for another place and Jerusalem is a possibility “, wants to believe this diplomat.
” Lide-up “
The guarantors of the Minsk chords, of which France, seem today “burned” in Moscow. However, Mr. Bennett strives to present his initiative as an action taken in concert with Western democracies. According to the Walla website, he informed about his departure from Friday, the American National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan. It’s hard to imagine that Washington has solicited his attempt. The White House seems too busy gather the wider support for sanctions against Moscow.
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