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Moscow reportedly wishes to avoid the #Iranian militias in #Syria being targeted by #Israel

JNS Russia demands Iranian militias withdraw from Syrian province September 4, 2022 Russia has demanded that Iranian militias withdraw from military positions west of the Syrian province of Hama and from other positions in central and western Syria to prevent … Continue reading

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Why is Joe Biden alternately ignoring and funding the ever-closer alliance between Iran and Putin?

TABLET MAG Totalitarians Inc. Emanuele Ottolenghi August 11, 2022 Are Russia and Iran forging a strategic alliance? Vladimir Putin’s recent trip to Tehran for a trilateral summit with Iranian leaders and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggests so. As does … Continue reading

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“Putin was supposed to be the Good Tsar. Instead he has closed the Jewish Agency. And now tens of thousands of Jews fear being trapped in Russia”

COMMON SENSE A New Iron Curtain Descends on Russia’s Jews Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt August 9, 2022 Vladimir Putin was supposed to be The Good Tsar—the Russian president who, his KGB past notwithstanding, was a friend of the Jews. In Putin’s Russia, … Continue reading

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“Moscow’s action against organization that oversees immigration to Israel seen as retaliation for Israel’s stance on Ukraine war”

TIMES OF ISRAEL Russia officially calls for Jewish Agency operations to be ‘dissolved’  Judah Ari Gross July 21, 2022 Russian authorities officially called Thursday for the “dissolution” of the Jewish Agency’s offices in the country, filing an appeal to that … Continue reading

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“A Kremlin readout of the phone call made no mention of an apology, rather stressing that Russia and Israel shared the same commitment to preserving the memory of the Holocaust’

ALGEMEINER Putin Apologizes for Lavrov’s Holocaust Comments, Israeli PM’s Office Says Ben Cohen May 5, 2022 Israel said on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had apologized to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett for the widely-panned comments of his foreign minister, … Continue reading

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A new documentary about the making of #FiddlerOnTheRoof evokes wonder at our idealization of a past that wasn’t very nice

TABLET MAG Nostalgia for the Slaughterhouse Phyllis Chesler April 27, 2022 …Remember the wedding scene in Fiddler? Tevye is warned by a friendly, local official that he was ordered to disrupt, make a little trouble, nothing too serious … but … Continue reading

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Bennett message to #CNN’s #Amanpour: Stop lying

JPOST Bennett to CNN: Zelensky asked me to speak with Putin on Ukraine war Staff April 21, 2022 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked Prime Minister Naftali Bennett to meet counterpart Vladimir Putin in Russia, Bennett said in a televised interview given … Continue reading

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“Transferring ownership of the land could cause diplomatic trouble for Israel at a time when its Western allies have been sanctioning Russia over its invasion of Ukraine”

JPOST Putin demands Russia gain control of Jerusalem church as promised Lahav Harkov April 18, 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded that Israel grant his country control of the Alexander Courtyard in Jerusalem as the previous Israeli government had promised, … Continue reading

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Israeli officials turning blind eye to program run by group of former IDF soldiers; ‘We’re not only fighting for Ukraine, but for ourselves’

TIMES OF ISRAEL ‘No other option’: Israeli ex-commandos said to secretly train Ukrainian civilians Staff March 25, 2022 A group of Israeli ex-commandos has been training Ukrainian civilians at a secret facility in western Ukraine, the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported … Continue reading

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“The Cold War was not always cold, and the war in Ukraine repeats some of the patterns of that era”

AMERICAN PURPOSE Ukraine: The Return of the Cold War Michael Mandelbaum March 25, 2022 For twenty-five years after the end of the Cold War, the world, and especially the United States, enjoyed a period of unprecedented peace. Preparations for great-power … Continue reading

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