Timothy Birdnow

Interesting; the Israelis and Ukrainians have generally despised one another as the Ukrainians have a long and sordid history of anit-semitism.

In First, Zelensky Confirms Israel Sent Patriot Missile Battery To Ukraine, With More On Way

This shows the Ukrainians are desperate - desperate enough to ask for help from Israel.

It also shows a very poor lack of judgement on the part of Netanyahu and the Israelis as they can ill-afford to give up any weapons at this point; they are going toneed everything they have.

Trump will have to punish them for this, I fear (unless it was Trump himself who asked them to do it - not an impossibility.)

Israel has sought to stay out of the fray in Eastern Europe, sending humanitarian aid but little else. They do not want to provoke Rrussia, which can still drive events in the Middle East.

It is theorized Israel did this in response to deepening ties between Russia and Iran. But it couldlead to Moscow intervening in the war in Palestine in favor of Hamas.

This may be a far more serious escalation than anyone believes at present. Moscow is mad about losing Syria as it's warm-water Mediterranean port anyway. They may try to find a new port; an independent Palestine could well serve.

Imagine the Russian navy based in Jaffa, next door to Tel Aviv!

I doubt Israel would allow that, nor the U.S., and if there was a danger of such a thing happening it could lead to war.

Russia only has a few year round ice-free ports. St. Petersburgh on the Blatic (of which they own atin sliver), the ports on the Black Sea (all of which can be closed easily by blocking the Bosporus and Dardenelles), Vladivostok (at the end of everywhere), and that is pretty much it.

During WWII the Russians had to be supplied via deliveries to Archangel and other Arctic ports, which were closed much of the time.

So the Russians have always needed a Mediterranean port from which to operate and run their navy. It used to be Syria.

The Russians have long held a pro-Arab policy, too, in defiance of America's support for Israel. It was Russian meddling in the region that has led to the constant terrorist warfare against Israel. (The Russians figured there were a lot more Arabs than Jews.) The Palestinian cause is the cause for the Arab world, and largely because they believe that where Islam sets it's flag it must never be moved. They want to take back Spain and Bulgaria and Greece too, but it infuriates them the Jews took the Holy Land away from them. The call Israel a "Crusader state" and conflate that with colonialism. But it's not; the Jews were always there, before, during, and after. Just more Jews came in and made a new nation from the British territory, territory won in WWI from the Ottoman Turks. It was the Turks who were the colonialists, from the time the Seljuk Turks conquered the region.

At any rate Russia has always championed the Islamic cause and they support Iran now. If Israel meddles in the war with Ukraine they will take action of some sort. Depending on how the war is actually going (we get lies from our media about it) the Russia response will be either muted or not. But respond they will; they'll have to. Giving weapons to an enemy in time of war is an act of war.

The Russians can get the Arab world on their side by backing Palestine in the conflict.

So little by little we keep ratcheting this thing up. I know; Putin is as guilty of that as anybody. But SOMEBODY has to be the adult in this room. This is how nuclear wars start.

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