During the weeks following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on February 24, President Zelensky intervened online in front of many parliaments, each time receiving a warm welcome from the deputies gathered to listen to it and the ‘applaud. But, on March 20, in Jerusalem, the spans of the Knesset were empty, because the Israeli elected officials had refused to break their parliamentary holidays to follow from their assembly the intervention of the Ukrainian head of state, broadcast on Zoom. Zelensky then open his speech by this quote from Golda Meir, born in kyiv, and head of the Israeli government from 1969 to 1974:
“We intend to stay alive, our neighbors want to see us dead. This is not a question that leaves a lot of room in compromise.”
Recalling how “the stories of the Jews and the Ukrainians are intertwined”, he concluded:
“We can always ask why we do not get weapons from you, why Israel does not impose heavy sanctions against Russia, why he does not pressure Russian companies. But the answer is still The same. It is your choice, dear brothers and sisters. And you will have to live with this answer, people of Israel. “
” the alliance “between Moscow and Tehran
Such a discourse, far from arouse adherence to Israel, comforted the leaders in their ostensible neutrality line between Ukraine and Russia, the latter being more managed as it has in Syria D ‘A disturbing retaliation capacity: Moscow is enough to suspend the tacitly established cooperation with Israeli aviation to complicate or even prevent raids regularly carried out against the targets linked to Iran in this country.
This is fundamentally why Israel refuses to join Western sanctions against Russia, and a fortiori to deliver military equipment to Ukraine. There is nothing to defy from this line the government of Naftali Bennett, even if Yaïr Lapid, his Minister of Foreign Affairs, describes, on May 2, as “scandalous and unforgivable” the comparison daring by Sergei Lavrov, his Russian counterpart, between Zelensky and Hitler-“ what does it matter if Zelensky is Jewish. It does not change anything to the presence of Nazi elements in Ukraine. It seems to me that Hitler also had Jewish blood ” .
The Ukrainian authorities have not ceased to renew their calls for aid towards Israel, whose anti -missile defense capacities would be particularly precious for their country. These calls became even more pressing after the Russian bombing of civil infrastructure bombing which, on October 10, 11 and 17, saw the devastating intervention of Iranian Shahed type drones (“martyr”, in Persian). On October 24, Zelensky is addressed this time directly to Israeli opinion by stressing that ” The detestable sound of Iranian drones can be heard in our sky every night “, While” Iranian instructors came to teach the Russians “how to use these hundreds of drones. And he adds:
You have 46.63% of this article to read. The continuation is reserved for subscribers.