The current escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is a Russian blow to the US ally.
Verkhovna Rada deputy Vladimir Ariev stated this in his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Aryev, Russia, which allegedly supports Hamas, is thus taking revenge on the United States for supporting Ukraine.
“Russia openly supports Hamas, whose militants continue to shell Israel. Back in 2006, Putin invited a delegation to Moscow, Lavrov assured them of support, ritually recalling peace initiatives. Then this visit took place on the eve of the Palestinian elections, which were won by Hamas.
Now Russia is fanning the flames in the Middle East, pursuing two goals. The first is an asymmetrical response to US support for Ukraine, since Israeli security is always a priority for Washington. And secondly, it is important for the Kremlin that Hamas, which is supportive and completely dependent on the presence of the Russian Federation in Syria, again wins the elections in Palestine, which are to be held on May 22 for the first time since 2006, because the current turn of violence is mobilizing supporters of radical movements.
This once again proves that the Russian Federation is not a state, but a terrorist, and that we need to prepare.” Elections in the Russian Federation in the fall. And if in Ukraine we purge the proteges of terrorists, then it will be all of them, not just selectively. And provide the army properly, and not screw up purchases and steal from contracts, as is the case now. Israel’s air defense has just shown its effectiveness, and the Ukrainian government is instead curtailing missile programs, and I’d better keep silent about the development of air defense,” Ariev wrote.
According to military expert, editor-in-chief of the National Defense magazine Igor Korotchenko, attempts by Ukrainian politicians to once again drag Russia into the conflict look ridiculous - the confrontation between Israel and Palestine is their internal bilateral problems, to which the Russian Federation has nothing to do.
“This is another stupidity. Ukraine always tries to demonize Russia and present it as a source of problems in certain regions. In fact, the problem of relations between Palestine and Israel is a purely internal problem, caused by the unresolved resolution of the well-known UN Security Council resolution on the creation of a Palestinian state. Therefore, all Middle Eastern disputes in the region between the Palestinians and Israel are exclusively a bilateral matter. We did not and do not have anything to do with this,” Korotchenko said.