 RELATIONSHIPS TESTEDTrump administration ‘insisted’ Israel vote against Ukraine at U.N. Liao Pan/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel Yevgen Kornichuk: ‘Only Israel found itself in the position of voting with Russia and North Korea. That is sad’By Lahav Harkov The Trump administration pressured Israel to vote against a U.N. resolution on Monday affirming Ukraine’s territorial integrity and condemning Russia’s invasion of the country on its three-year anniversary, according to a source familiar with the discussions. “There was a lot of pressure from the U.S., they really insisted,” an Israeli official told Jewish Insider on Tuesday. “It came at all levels, at the U.N., in Washington and in Israel.” The resolution “is not our position,” the official added, and the vote, the first time Israel voted against Ukraine and with Russia since the beginning of the war, “wasn’t easy for us … We preferred to avoid this situation. We had no choice but to take a side.” The official said that Israel “could have abstained, but I think because we asked for a lot from [the Trump administration] in recent weeks and days, the decision was to go all the way with them.” You May Have MissedPROFESSOR SCAPEGOATGW professor’s office vandalized, called ‘a pernicious symptom’ of ‘bloodthirsty Zionism’Professor Joseph Pelzman previously authored a paper on a plan similar to President Trump’s proposal to relocate Palestinians and rebuild Gaza. TWO BIRDS ONE STONELapid says Egypt should take temporary control of Gaza, in exchange for debt reliefSpeaking at an FDD event in Washington, the Israeli opposition leader said, ‘We can take these two problems and combine them into one solution’. Read more...    |
2.25.2025
Trump administration ‘insisted’ Israel vote against Ukraine at U.N.
