How the War in Ukraine Affects Israel’s Struggle with Iran
Jerusalem and the West face a Moscow-Tehran alliance.
June 26, 2023
How the War in Ukraine Affects Israel’s Struggle with Iran
Jerusalem and the West face a Moscow-Tehran alliance.
Over the weekend, an abortive rebellion by a segment of the Russian military apparatus seemed to expose Vladimir Putin’s weakness. Ukrainian forces, meanwhile, have pushed forward with what appear to be the preliminary operations of the awaited counteroffensive. With all this happening, Kiev’s embassy in Israel deemed yesterday an opportune time to lambaste the Jewish state for taking, in its view, insufficient steps to help Ukraine defend itself against the Russian onslaught. This undiplomatic complaint ignored not only the real limitations on Jerusalem’s options, but also the fact that, as Jonathan Spyer explains, Russia and Israel are, like it or not, aligned against one another:
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