Ukrainian President Zelensky complained to French reporters that Israel did not provide them with weapons and equipment, and even provided none of them. Judging from what Zelensky complained, many Western countries have provided assistance to Ukraine. As the world's top military country, Israel is leading the world's many weapons and equipment. At the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Ukraine wanted to obtain Israel's "Iron Dome" air defense system. But just like Zelensky's complaint, Israel has not provided anything to Ukraine.
As a member of the Western country and has extraordinary relations with the United States, why didn’t Israel follow the United States to provide weapons to Ukraine?
1. Russia-Israel relations are very special
In the eyes of the outside world, the relationship between the United States and Israel is very strong, and the United States attaches great importance to Israel. Israel is not afraid of the United States, and sometimes dares to say no to the United States. But the United States seems to dare not offend Israel. In many cases, the United States visits Israel more often than Israel visits the United States.
Israel is the most important ally of the United States in the Middle East, no one. Because no Middle East country can compare with the U.S.-Israel relations.
According to this logic, Israel has a good relationship with the United States, so will the relationship between Israel and Russia be very bad?
On the contrary, Israel and Russia cannot be said to be very good, but the relationship between the two countries is very special. Because Russia and Israel have a long historical origin. There were many Jews in Russia. Later, after the Soviet policy was relaxed, a large number of Jews in the Soviet Union immigrated to Israel.
Putin also visits Jerusalem regularly, and the two heads of state interact a lot. At the time when Russia commemorated the victory day of the Patriotic War in 2018, the heads of state of the West did not come, but former Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu came.
The relationship between Russia and Israel needs to be discussed from history. We all know that the Jews are a very miserable nation and they are excluded in Europe. There was an anti-Semitic incident in the Middle Ages, so the Jews migrated to Central and Eastern Europe . After Russia unified Eastern Europe, Jews also became a member of the Russian nation.
Tsarist Russian When Russia was not good to Jews, Russia also restricted the living conditions of Jews, and even expelled Jews. This is also influenced by Europe's "anti-Semitism". Since the Russian environment is not as good as , Western European , and the Tsar excludes Jews, there are not many Jews in Russia.
Later, Russia, Pu and Austria divided Poland, and then Tsarist Russia broke out in October Revolution, and Tsarist Russia was overthrown. Polish was divided twice, and Poland was also excluded from Jews, so a large number of Jews in Poland flocked into the newly born Soviet Russia.
WWII, Nazi Germany persecuted the Jews, and dozens of Jews fled to the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was generally friendly to the Jews, without discrimination, and without anti-Semitism. Therefore, the Soviet Union once exceeded two million Jews.
The Soviets knew that Jews were smart and had chaebols in the United States. Therefore, in order to build, the Soviet Union wanted to attract Jewish capital to enter, so the Soviet Union established an autonomous prefecture in the Far East where Jews lived, hoping to attract more Jews to settle. It’s a pity that the location is too remote and cold, and only a small number of Jews live here.
Soviet-German War Later, the Soviet Union defeated the arrogant Germany and rescued many imprisoned Jews. These Jews later participated in the restoration of the Jews after the war, so after Israel was founded, they were very grateful to the Soviet Union.
Israel After the reinstatement of the country in Palestinian , the Soviet Union supported Israel and also provided assistance to Israel. Moreover, some Jews in the Soviet Union moved to Israel. Therefore, Israel has special places for Jewish settlements in the Russian-speaking areas.
These Jews immigrated from Russia and they also have feelings for Russia. These people account for a large proportion of Israel. Among the more than 8 million people in Israel, one-quarter of them speak Russian.Just as Putin said, " Russians have a close relationship with Israelis." also confirms this. Russia and Israel also have a deep cultural exchange. After all, there are too many people immigrating from Russia to Israel. Some Russian-speaking areas have relatives with Russians, so Israelis have a special relationship with Russia.
During the Cold War , the United States and the Soviet Union competed for spheres of influence in the Middle East. The Soviet Union supported Arab countries, while the United States supported Israel and other countries. Therefore, the Soviet Union and Israel were not as harmonious as when they first founded the country. But the Soviet Union and Israel also had no hatred.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia experienced a period of turbulence, with backward economy and difficult people's lives, and some Jews moved to Israel again. In order to attract more Jews to return to China, Israel has formulated many preferential policies, such as living security, employment, etc.
The return of the Jews who disintegrated the Soviet Union was a large-scale migration activity. It is said that more than one million Soviet Jews moved to Israel, which strengthened Israel's strength. It is precisely this relationship that Russia and Israel do not seem to have hatred. As the saying goes, the enemy is the enemy. Judging from the relationship between Israel and the United States, Russia and Israel have an average relationship, but the relationship between the two countries is very close. Perhaps it is related to the large number of Jews from the Soviet Union in Israel.
Whether in the Tsarist Russian era or the Soviet era, Russians treated Jews very friendly, and there were no anti-Semitism or anti-Semitism issues. This is a factor in Israel's friendly to Russia.
It is precisely based on this special relationship that Israel repeatedly refused to sell any deadly weapons and equipment to Ukraine. Israeli Prime Minister Bennett has repeatedly rejected Ukraine's request to purchase the "Iron Dome" air defense system. Israel will not offend Russia, an important friend, and Israel will not have a good life at that time.
2. The existence of Ukraine Nazi
Zelensky was too strong, and Israel has no obligation to aid Ukraine. Ukraine is so bad now, don't expect anyone to save him.
Ukraine has another major problem, that is, there are too many Nazi forces in Ukraine, and the Ukrainian government is with them. One of the "special military operations" launched by Putin against Ukraine is "de-Nazization". Putin's card is very clever because the Nazis are opposed by the whole world. Since the Ukrainian Nazis are serious and the Ukrainian government supports them and even colludes with them, Russia has the right to send troops to Ukraine to strike. This is also why Western countries did not dare to provide openly to provide assistance to Ukraine at the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, and they were worried that they would be labeled as supporting the Nazis.
Since there is Nazi power in Ukraine, it is impossible for Israel to aid Ukraine. During World War II, Jews were massacred by Nazis. Israel has not forgotten this tragic history. If Israel goes to aid Zelensky, who has a relationship with the Nazi forces, Israel will lose its morality. Israel will never do this low-level routine.
3. Middle East factors
At present, in the Middle East, although some countries have achieved reconciliation with Israel, many countries are still hostile to Israel. After all, they have experienced 4 Middle East Wars , and there is too much hatred. Moreover, Israel is getting stronger and stronger as it fights, and it has become a strong country in a region.
In the Middle East, although Israel has a small land area, its strength cannot be underestimated. Even Iran is afraid of Israel. Türkiye also looks up to Israel. So if we talk about the Middle East power, Israel will definitely rank in the top three.
Israel is a Judaism country. The country can survive under the siege of Islam countries. In addition to its powerful force, its technology is also very developed. Even Germany has a high look at Israel.
It is precisely because some countries have hostile strategies towards Israel that many countries often have conflicts with Israel, such as Syria is an old rival to Israel, and Iran. During the Syrian War, Russia sent troops to Syria to preserve the military base in Syria and to break out of the US encirclement. Syria and Israel are enemies, and the two countries are enemies.But Israel has not raised any objections to Russia's entry into Syria.
What makes people feel more interesting is that when Israel attacked Syria, Russia turned a blind eye. Moreover, the Israeli air strike targets never bombed to the Russian military.
Israel wants to attack the Iranian army in Syria, which is to let the Iranian army leave Syria. Israel has many air strikes on Syria, and the Iranian army targets have also been hit. In addition, Israel also asked Russia to come forward to persuade the Iranian army to withdraw from Syria through Russia.
From the perspective of the Middle East, although it is complicated, the relationship between Russia and Israel is not complicated, but a good relationship. In addition to historical reasons, this relationship is also related to Russia and Israel's needs. Just as the Israeli Defense Minister said to Russian Defense Minister Shoigu, " Russia and Israel have a common history, and undoubtedly everything in history and memory should be preserved and sublimated. Russia and Israel have no differences and fully support each other."
Therefore, Russia's existence in the Middle East is both a realistic factor and a Russian strategy. Israel did not stop it, and also worked hard for Russia to gain a foothold in the Middle East in the future.
In order to ensure interests in Syria, Israel wants to reach an agreement with Russia, and of course Israel will not offend Russia.
At present, Russia has intervened in Libya , Yemen and other countries. If Israel wants to develop smoothly in the Middle East, it will never ignore Russia's existence. So Israel will not offend Russia by providing weapons to Ukraine.
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