Why is Israel neutral amid the Russia-Ukraine war?

https://www.jpost.com/jerusalem-report/article-702796

by nhchris • 3 years ago

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jononor• 3 years ago

This is behind a paywall?

beardyw• 3 years ago

Yes and unarchivable. We will never know.

labrador• 3 years ago

I can't read the article but on Twitter someone commented that it's because Russia could cause Israel a lot of trouble in Syria and Iran could cause them a lot of trouble in Lebanon, so Israel can't help Ukraine without suffering casualties. I don't know how true it is, but it makes sense.

fromseashore5• 3 years ago

Perhaps it is also because the Soviet Army liberated Auschwitz. And made the immense sacrifice to defeat the nazi reich, while Britain and US waited till 1944 to open the second front in Europe.

helge92104• 3 years ago

Soviet Union was an ally to Third Reich up to 1941.

fromseashore5• 3 years ago

Half truth is worse than a lie. But without half truths, what would happen to US efforts to rewrite the history?

Everyone in Europe knew in 1945 who defeated the nazis. And it was neither US nor Britain.

sidibe2• 3 years ago

A Soviet army made up of also Ukrainians who suffered bigger losses proportionally than Russia.

fromseashore5• 3 years ago

Soviet army was not dividing people by nationality, they were all "soviet people".So why do you choose to do so now? (Actually, a rhetorical question).

helge92104• 3 years ago

As both Ukrainian and Israeli I have an opinion on this.

If Israel supports Ukraine, it will undermine the claim on occupied territories and Jerusalem. If Israel supports Russia, it will risk to lose the support of USA (like Iraq after being ally of USA against Iran). Also there is significant amount of Russian agents in Israeli political landscape (basically, all Russian speaking politicians).

tguvot3• 3 years ago

If Israel supports Ukraine, it will undermine the claim on occupied territories and Jerusalem

Literally, LOL.

Also there is significant amount of Russian agents in Israeli political landscape (basically, all Russian speaking politicians).

You seems to conflate russian speaking with russians. I lived in Israel for 25 years, and now I tried to recalled how many people from Russia proper I know, and I cant even reach count of 5. Besides this, russian speaking politicians (all 3 or 5 of them ? most if not all of them not from russia) have no weight in Israel politics, especially in such a strategic decisions. As good example will be a strategic decision of smaller degree, when Gazprom wanted to get into partnerships in gas drilling companies in Israel but was booted out.

weatherlite• 3 years ago

it will undermine the claim on occupied territories and Jerusalem.

No one buys this claim who is important, not the U.S, not the E.U, not China and not even Russia. Israel knows this very well, so I doubt that's the reason. Even many Israelis probably don't buy into this claim, they want to hold on to the territories due to security reasons and what happened after the Gaza withdrawal.

Also there is significant amount of Russian agents in Israeli political landscape

Significant amount? Do you have some data to support this? You're also suggesting they are all Putin supporters which sounds like a reach to me. Many of them came to Israel not loving the Russian totalitarian experience.

tguvot3• 3 years ago

Article is paywalled, yet... Israel spent a lot of effort over past 20 years in preventing russia from supplying Iran and Syria with modern air-defense systems like S400 and portable anti-tank/aircraft systems as they tend to quickly end up in hands of hamas and hezballah.

Sending any type of weapons to Ukraine will most likely result in russia paying back in the same coin, hence all of the visible assistance to Ukraine is humanitarian aid. There is also invisible aid, as Israeli ambassador to Germany stated last week, but it's invisible.

There is also an issue of russia in Syria, where it can interfere with local Israeli operations. And once in a while russia just for giggles jams signals over north Israe.

unpopdontcare6• 3 years ago

Israel is attack Iran's weapons manufacturing capacity, which is a help.

Otherwise? The answer is money. Almost every russian oligarch has bought Israeli citizenship.

Israel doesn't need to take sides It knows that Americans will never, ever, ever, ever enact any policies against Israel, because the political blowback would end their careers. We will always give welfare to Israel's army, and we will always make decisions in favor of Israel which are against American interests.

Israel knows there is good money to be made here.

morpheos137• 3 years ago

Maybe because it is not in their national interest to pick a side?

Why is Israel neutral amid the Russia-Ukraine war?

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