Posted on 10/29/2023 3:42:55 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Official tells envoy Anatoly Viktorov that by welcoming Hamas delegation, Russia signaled legitimacy for terrorism against Israel, demands unequivocal condemnation of terror group.
March 3, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90) The Foreign Ministry on Sunday summoned the Russian ambassador to complain of Moscow’s attitude during the war between Israel and Hamas, charging that Russia’s ties with the terror group give legitimacy for terror against the Jewish state.
The deputy director of the Foreign Ministry’s Euro – Asia Division, Simona Halperin, called in Moscow’s envoy Anatoly Viktorov and told him that Israel takes a “serious view” of Moscow not issuing a clear and unequivocal condemnation of Hamas, as well as of Russia’s conduct in international bodies, the ministry said in a statement.
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The move came after last week Russia hosted Hamas representatives in Moscow for a meeting with its deputy foreign minister to discuss the war, which broke out when Hamas carried out a devastating attack in Israeli territory, killing over 1,400 and abducting at least 239 people, who are still being held captive in Gaza.
“Hosting Hamas leaders who are directly responsible for the murderous terror attack on October 7, the kidnapping of hostages and with the blood of over 1,400 Israelis on their hands, sends a message of legitimacy for terror against Israel,” Halperin told Viktorov.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...
As you know, the assertion you are unable to refute, is that Russia has provided no material support to Hamas...or Iran for that matter.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4193086/posts
It is because, first, you are a Ukrainian Partisan and your sole interests are those of Ukraine.
Therefore if you can conflate your existential enemy with Hamas you feel you can preserve US support for the corrupt regime in Kiev.
Russia has weaponized Islam for decades.
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“...discuss the war...”
I guess I’m confused on this. To have a war, you have to have a country that defends a place, is recognizable as a representative of them, and is trying to protect them.
Hamas has been in control of Gaza since 2007. But they don’t have a reason to defend it concerning the religious theology of Israel. That does them no harm. So we don’t have a war, we have criminals.
wy69
Hamas and Russia are close allies.
We’ve hosted the Iranians and everybody else. The problem is that all of the western nations, including Russia, are terrified of Islam.
Russia has a big Muslim population and so do most European countries. Not to mention is here, where NYC and most major cities are being swamped by Muslim and islam supporting left wingers.
I think we are all in big trouble and we all just walked into it being nice to this savage cult.
Russia and China are winning the public relations war in the Global South which tends to be sympathetic to the Palestinians. That’s especially true with the Muslim countries. Not good for US interests.
You should support Israel’s demand for Russia to condemn Hamas.
“Hamas and Russia are close allies.”
“Allies” implies they support one another in real ways against a common enemy.
Russia has provided no material support to Hamas.
None.
Your assertion is false.
“You should support Israel’s demand for Russia to condemn Hamas.”
I don’t care if Russia condemns Hamas, or Iran or ISIS or Houthis or any other of the various jihadi death cults.
The US condemns them all, then gives them billions of dollars...or allows them to reap billions from “charities” hosted on US soil.
Russia doesn’t do any of that.
Russia is a Terror State.
Is this really a surprise?
Russia has always had long ties to terrorist groups trying to hurt “the West”
years ago, they equipped/funded creeps like the Baader-Meinhof Gang to bomb crowded spots in Western Europe - and Putin was their KGB contact in East Germany
so, he has a lot of “previous hands-on experience” helping terrorists ...
I would ask the Russian Ambassador how Putin can criticise Israel’s war ethics when he has murdered 200,000 in an unjustified and illegal incursion into Ukraine.
Putin is a Terrorist.
You have no evidence that is true.
I would not doubt it, but it is an assertion without evidence.
“According to a former member of the Red Army Faction, the far-left terrorist group in West Germany, who claimed to have met him in Dresden, Putin had worked in support of members of the group, which sowed terror across West Germany in the seventies and eighties: “There was nothing in Dresden, nothing at all, except the radical left. Nobody was watching Dresden, not the Americans, not the West Germans. There was nothing there. Except the one thing: these meetings with those comrades.” ...
“Did Vladimir Putin support anti-Western terrorists as a young KGB officer?”
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