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Last week, the Trump administration reportedly pressured Israel to vote against Ukraine on a European-backed UN General Assembly resolution, which accused it of invading Russia and confirmed the integrity of Ukraine's territory. As a result, Israel sided with the sides against Russia, North Korea, the US and Ukraine.
On Friday, Trump spurred Ukrainian President Voldimia Zelenkie from the White House and accused him of “gambling with World War II.”
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President Donald Trump, right, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will speak at a press conference in the Eastern Room of the White House held on Tuesday, February 4th, 2025 in Washington, DC (Alex Brandon/AP)
The “contract maker” is almost certainly mediating a settlement between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Putin and Netanyahu had an aggressive trading relationship until Biden caused a rift between Moscow and Tel Aviv by urging Israel to provide deadly weapons to Ukraine. It was based on a personal and shared belief that Islamic extremism was the common enemy and that it was impossible to compromise. In the past, Israel has not criticized Russia for Muslim wars in Chechnya, nor has it expressed a negative reaction to Putin's annexation of Crimea.
Israel has maintained a neutral stance in the early stages of the Russian-Ukrain conflict, refraining from denounce Putin for its invasion, rejecting US and EU sanctions on Moscow, and opting to provide only humanitarian aid to Ukraine, rather than military hardware.
On the left, Russian President Vladimir Putin will greet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a meeting at the Bukarov Luchie Regional Residence in Sochi, Russia on September 12, 2019. (Photo: Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)
Realpolitik-oriented and practical, Putin and Netanyahu saw their undeclared alliance as strategically valuable to the stability and security of the region.
Since becoming president in 2000, Putin has significantly improved relations between Russia and Israel following decades of hostile relations between the Soviet Union and Israel.
Putin became the first Kremlin leader to visit Israel in 2005, and pursued Israeli policies primarily as the Jewish state became the home of the world's largest Jews in the former Soviet Union.
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On the left, Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Iran's highest leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in Tehran, Iran. (Photo: Dmitry Azarov/Sputnik/AFP)
Putin never supported Iran, with 1.2 million Russians and former Soviet immigrants living in Israel, and 15%-17% of Israelis speaking Russian.
In 2010, the Kremlin adhered to UN sanctions and was banned by an executive order from selling the S-300 air defense missile system to Iran, which would strengthen the defense of Iran's nuclear sites from airstrikes. Furthermore, in 2019 amid rising tensions in the Persian Gulf, Putin rejected Iran's request to purchase an advanced S-400 missile defense system. This is probably because he responded to the shared concerns between Israel and Saudi Arabia, and he tried to maintain an active partnership with the two.
Netanyahu attended a Russian military parade in 2018, even standing alongside President Putin. For Vivi, Israel's security switches optics. The Israeli Defense Forces were heavily dependent on security coordination with Syrian Russian forces, where Russia controlled the air and Israeli fighter jets implicitly allowed strikes over Iran's proxy.
From left: President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/Getty Images via Getty Images | AP Photo/Alex Brandon | Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via ap)
However, as a result of the lift, Putin strengthened his ties with Iranian President Masudo Pezeshkian, celebrating the “very close” relationship between Russia and Iran.
Putin has begun actively working with Iran as the Biden administration is trying to suffocate the Russian economy with harsh sanctions. “We are actively working in international fields and our assessment of events taking place around the world is often very close,” Putin said in October.
Last April and September, around the time of Iran's direct attacks on Israel, Reuters reported that Russian weapons experts had visited Iran's missile production facilities.
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Trump is a pragmatist who has America's security first, and Israel is in the second. He probably understands that Moscow and Tehran, who share a turbulent history, are not as natural allies as they are trying to portray. They were forced together by wise and incompetent Washington policies that have been driven not by realism or American security, but by ideology and wishful thinking, even up to Trump.
Trump believes that he likely believes that repairing relations with Russia, promoting Putin Netanyahu's reconciliation and disbanding the Moscow Tehran axis is strategically in the interests of the United States.
Like Putin and Netanyahu, the commander with a strategic heart, strategically embraced by the chief, is not afraid of being called “wrong” optics or other calls, but is once again Putin's apologist. Trump wants to do what he needs to do to ensure America's security and global stability.
The Israeli election sign showing Chairman Likud and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the caption of Russia's Reading “Only Likud, Nowal Netanyahu” is on display in Jerusalem on September 14, 2019. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images)
Netanyahu is almost certainly riding on Trump's grand scheme, as Israel seeks to have its own influence on US policies. Jerusalem advocates that Russia can maintain military bases in Syria. Syria is now controlled by a terrorist regime following a Türkiye-backed coup.
In order to reduce the threat to the border, Israel views Russia as a Syrian ally and a Turkish ally with Jerusalem's tense relationship.
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The Trump effect is already felt. Russia invited Israel to the May 9 victory parade in Moscow, commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. Moscow, who is carefully optimistic about Trump's strategic restructuring, has given Putin a table seat with the Big Boys, saying “unfriendly nations” that include Ukraine, Germany and France have not been invited. On Saturday, Netanyahu's military chief Major General Roman Goffman was on his way to Moscow to discuss “enhancing cooperation in security interests.”
According to Putin's aide Yuriy Ushakov, Iran took part in the agenda at the US-Russia High-Level Conference in Riyadh and launched peace talks in Ukraine. Putin reportedly could also serve as a broker between Washington and Tehran in the new nuclear deal.
Trump has inherited from the Biden administration's global chaos and burning world, and he is about to come out. Take a deeper look at his game plan before you start criticizing him.
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