Benjamin Netanyahu was rather wise to instruct his government to “be quiet on Russia” and focus on Iran — the archenemy of Israel. So when Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett flew off to the Kremlin to try to broker peace, informed intuition should have registered that there had to be another salient matter at hand in Israel’s interests since the whole world is trying to broker peace. And indeed there is. Outside of global politicking, it is a requisite that Israel focus on its survival — which Iran threatens. According to a BBC article:
Israel has significant relations with both Russia and Ukraine…. But Mr Bennett was flying into something he sees as strategic in the crisis. “Israel has also developed frequent dialogue with the Russians, or ‘our neighbors to the north’ as one official reportedly referred to them recently. Russia controls the skies over Syria, where Israel routinely carries out air strikes. It says it targets weapons transfers and militants linked to Iran, the country it sees as an existential threat.”
Although the BBC report states that “the relationship dynamics of one regional crisis are becoming entangled in another,” the Russia-Ukraine crisis bears a gargantuan impact on the entire world. The interests of every ideology is in some fashion wrapped up in this crisis: Democracy, Nazism, Communism, Globalism, and Islam. In the meantime, innocents are suffering, so hopefully a peace deal can be brokered quickly. For those who also have interests in Israel’s survival, Netanyahu’s advice should not be dismissed.
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