Tag: Vladimir Putin
Israeli prime minister says Putin apologized for Lavrov’s Holocaust-related remarks
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett claimed on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized for comments by his foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, that said “Adolf Hitler had Jewish blood.”
The Prime Minister’s Office released a statement on Twitter:...
Why Russia has once again turned on the Jews
Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, caused outrage earlier this week after he was asked on Italian TV how Russia could claim to be “de-Nazifying” Ukraine when its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, is Jewish.
Lavrov replied: “I...
Is ‘Never Again’ an empty promise?
Growing up as a Jew in traumatized post-Holocaust Germany, I have been haunted by the imperative of “Never Again.” As the Russian army retreats from areas north of Kyiv and we are collectively getting a...
Israel’s US ambassador: Bennett no longer leading Ukraine-Russia mediation
Domestic critics of Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said he has lost focus on internal political considerations while taking on more international concerns, such as trying to intervene diplomatically in Russia’s nearly seven-week war...
Russian businessmen resign from Jewish group after giving $10 million to Ukraine
Three Russian oligarchs who founded the Genesis Philanthropy Group have stepped down from the Jewish charitable foundation after it pledged to donate $10 million for humanitarian needs in Ukraine, reported Business Insider.
Banking and business billionaires...
Biden’s unconscionable empowerment of both Russia and Iran
In his address to the U.S. Congress this week, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky told U.S. President Joe Biden in a plea for American air defenses against Russian bombardment from the sky: “You are the leader of...
Jewish lawmakers moved by Zelensky address, mixed on next steps to support Ukraine
After Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke by video to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday morning, Jewish members were moved by Zelensky’s speech, though expressed slightly varied positions on what to do next.
During...
Bennett speaks with Putin, Zelensky as mediation efforts on war continue
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky separately on Monday as the Israeli leader’s mediation efforts continued.
Bennett spoke with Putin for about an hour-and-a-half with the two...
America hasn’t learned the grim truth of asymmetric warfare
In an interview about the war against Ukraine, the former Soviet dissident turned Israeli public figure, Natan Sharansky, made a key observation.
Commenting in Tablet that both Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, were far from the...
Opposing Putin is about more than sympathy for an underdog
Americans are so polarized that even when almost everyone basically agrees about something, their instincts tell them to distrust it. That’s what’s happening in the discussion about Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. Virtually...