Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met with Putin in Moscow for 3 hours.

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1. Israel won't condemn Russia, last I heard.

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They wouldn't help arrange peace talks either. On edit-In the UN-"Israel also was among 96 countries that co-sponsored Wednesday’s resolution — a step it refused to take last week when a similar resolution came before the Security Council. That decision led US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield to express her disappointment to Erdan." So initially Israel would not vote for the resolution to condemn the invasion and did so after the Us intervened? Also note that for the second vote- "Israel sent its Deputy UN Ambassador Noa Furman to address the emergency session on Tuesday, instead of Ambassador Gilad Erdan, in an apparent effort to downplay the Israeli stance and avoid a diplomatic spat with Russia."

Previously "Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Thursday avoided condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine — or even mentioning Russia by name — in his first remarks since the incursion began.

“The world order as we know it is changing,” he said, speaking at an IDF officer graduation ceremony in southern Israel. “The world is much less stable, and our region too is changing every day.”

“These are difficult, tragic times,” said the prime minister. “Our hearts are with the civilians of eastern Ukraine who were caught up in this situation.”
That is sick.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/un-general-assembly-including-israel-votes-overwhelmingly-to-condemn-russia/