Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spent years creating closer ties to Russia, but Jerusalem's eventual support for Ukraine has seemingly driven a wedge between the two nations.
Russia this week declared that Israel has no right to self-defense and labeled its would-be ally an 'occupying power' in a move that undermines years of work from Jerusalem to improve its relationship with Moscow. 'The only thing can muster is continued pronouncements about Israel’s supposed right to self-defense. Although, as an occupying power, it does not have that power,' Russian Amb.
Koffler noted that Putin’s decisions could work toward 'undoing years of work suppressing radical Islamic extremism' and playing into the growing anti-Israel and antisemitic sentiments flooding the world.
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