{"id":218200,"date":"2024-03-20T15:59:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T19:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=218200"},"modified":"2024-03-20T15:59:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T19:59:52","slug":"israels-relationship-with-russia-has-gone-from-fake-friend-to-outright-foe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=218200","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Israel&#8217;s Relationship with Russia Has Gone From Fake Friend To Outright Foe<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-218201\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screen-Shot-2024-03-20-at-3.56.05-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"581\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screen-Shot-2024-03-20-at-3.56.05-PM.png 581w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Screen-Shot-2024-03-20-at-3.56.05-PM-283x300.png 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu treads lightly with President Vladimir Putin.<\/h2>\n<h3>Russia is not responding in kind, with public criticism increasing.<\/h3>\n<p>By Steven Erlanger and Adam Sella<br \/>\nMarch 19, 2024<\/p>\n<p>Israel, though heavily dependent on support from the United States, Germany and other Western nations, has been noticeably out of step with them when it comes to relations with Russia during its war of conquest in Ukraine.<br \/>\n[\u2026]<br \/>\nArkady Mil-Man, a former Israeli ambassador to Russia now at the Institute for<br \/>\nNational Security Studies at Tel Aviv University, said that Mr. Netanyahu appeared<br \/>\nto ignore that \u201cIsrael is perceived as an enemy by the Russians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The relationship between Israel and Russia would only worsen, he said, because \u201cthe Russians chose a clearly anti-Israeli side.\u201d\u00a0 But Israel can hardly afford a break in relations.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/19\/world\/europe\/israel-russia-us-ukraine.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/19\/world\/europe\/israel-russia-us-ukraine.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}