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‘Surprised?!’: Ukraine Slams Russia for Courting Palestinian Terrorists

Kyiv sends clear message to Israelis: Russia is not your friend and you shouldn't be surprised by Russia cozying up to Palestinian terrorists

 

Israel Today

September 15, 2022

 

 

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyehwas invited to Moscow by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov

 

Russia earlier this week invited the leaders of the Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas for talks in Moscow. Ukraine hoped Israelis were paying attention, but also that they wouldn’t be too surprised by this turn of events.

Ukraine’s embassy in Israel had harsh words for Russia after a senior Hamas delegation led by Ismail Haniyeh, head of Hamas’ political bureau, visited Moscow and met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to discuss their ties.

The delegation expressed its appreciation for “the Russian position in support of the rights of our Palestinian people, their valued role in Palestinian internal affairs, and their keenness on the unity of our people.”

 

Russian manned S-300 deployed in Syria. So far the missiles have not been fired at Israeli jets attacking Iranian forces in Syria.

 

Ukraine described Russia and Hamas as two peas in a pod.

In a Hebrew-language post to Twitter accompanied by an image of the Russian and Hamas flag converging with the headline “Surprised?!,” the Ukrainians stressed:

“Only a country that murders thousands of children, women, and men under the pretext that it is ‘liberating its citizens,’ can host a leader of a terrorist organization of the first order. The world must not sit idly by and watch all this madness from the sidelines.”

Israeli analyst Yoni Ben Menachem, of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA), explained that Hamas is taking advantage of the fact that it did not participate in the attack on Israel during Operation Breaking Dawn, “in order to leverage its political activity and present itself as a pragmatic and ‘moderate’ organization.”

Russia “needs every possible friend in the international arena, especially in view of the international coalition that the US managed to form against it following Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine. Russia sees great importance in its relationship with Hamas. Hamas sees an opportunity to try and improve its international status,” he wrote.