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3. Even worse, this could be the Israeli backchannel to Russia -- a tool in both Putin's hand and Bibi's

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Mon Jun 1, 2026, 08:52 AM

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Israel has not sided with the west on Ukraine. Ties of Russia between Israel are deep — from fuel supply to the strong connection of Russian speakers in Israel

Netanyahu has to walk a line publicly but I doubt that he cares about anything but concentrating power.

Range of Russian-Israel relationship:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93Russia_relations#:~:text=%5B1%5D%20Putin%20has%20had%20a,as%20Prime%20Minister%20of%20Israel.
Dwell on this for a moment:

In confidential emails from private intelligence firm Stratfor leaked by WikiLeaks in 2016, the Georgian government believed that during the 2008 Russo-Georgian War, Israel provided Russia with the data link codes for Georgia's drone fleet which Israel had sold them, allowing Russia to hack them and force crash them in exchange for Russian intelligence on the Tor-M1 missile systems it had sold Iran.

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I think this is a mistake AZProgressive Yesterday #1

It's a business deal with the family business in mind. littlemissmartypants Yesterday #2

Absolutely right. And while I fully get and agree with your point, I also want to point out that it's more than just KPN Yesterday #4

Even worse, this could be the Israeli backchannel to Russia -- a tool in both Putin's hand and Bibi's lostnfound Yesterday #3