{"id":8023,"date":"2024-01-01T19:48:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T18:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=8023"},"modified":"2024-01-18T20:00:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T19:00:05","slug":"russia-is-no-friend-of-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2024\/01\/01\/russia-is-no-friend-of-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia is No Friend of Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2020\/11\/01\/erdogans-move-toward-an-islamic-caliphate\/eye-on-the-middle-east-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7281\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7281\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/eye-on-the-middle-east-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/eye-on-the-middle-east-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/eye-on-the-middle-east-1-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s robust support for Hamas after its October massacre of more than 1,400 Israelis has shattered long-standing illusions that Russia is a friend of Israel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Russia is No Friend of Israel<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/israelmyglory.org\/article\/russia-is-no-friend-of-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Israel My Glory<\/a> | January 1, 2024<\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s robust support for Hamas after its October massacre of more than 1,400 Israelis has shattered long-standing illusions that Russia is a friend of Israel. Previously, relations between Moscow and Jerusalem were mostly cordial. Putin made three official visits to Israel; and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who used to call Putin his \u201cdear friend,\u201d visited Russia at least 11 times.<\/p>\n<p>The bilateral relationship was solidified in 2015 when Putin sent troops to Syria to prevent President Bashar al-Assad from being overthrown in Syria\u2019s civil war. During Russia and Israel\u2019s neutrality entente, Netanyahu coordinated with Moscow Israel\u2019s armed interventions against Iranian military encroachment on Syrian territory. The objective was to prevent Israeli forces from accidentally targeting Russian troops while stopping Iranian proxies from establishing military bases in southwest Syria within range of Israeli population centers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/israelmyglory.org\/article\/russia-is-no-friend-of-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s robust support for Hamas after its October massacre of more than 1,400 Israelis has shattered long-standing illusions that Russia is a friend of Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,233],"tags":[171,244,65,14,162],"class_list":["post-8023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-middle-east","tag-geopolitics","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-russia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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