{"id":38760,"date":"2023-10-12T05:07:53","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T05:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=38760"},"modified":"2023-10-12T05:07:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T05:07:55","slug":"russia-israel-friendly-relations-vanish-with-the-start-of-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/10\/12\/russia-israel-friendly-relations-vanish-with-the-start-of-the-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Israel \u201cfriendly relations \u201c vanish with the start of the war"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has long portrayed himself as a friend of Vladimir Putin. In a memoir\u00a0published\u00a0during Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine, Netanyahu repeatedly lauded the Russian leader for his intellect and his \u201cparticularly friendly attitude\u201d toward the Jewish people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putin, too, has over the years cast himself as a loyal ally of the Israeli state, promoting cultural ties and visa-free travel between the two countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But\u00a0after the worst attack on Israel in decades, the much-touted friendship appears to have vanished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Four days after the start of Hamas\u2019s surprise attack, Putin is yet to call Netanyahu, while the Kremlin has not published a message of condolence to the country, a diplomatic gesture of goodwill that\u00a0Russia\u00a0routinely sends out to global leaders following deadly incidents on their soil:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel\u2019s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has long portrayed himself as a friend of Vladimir Putin. In a memoir\u00a0published\u00a0during Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine, Netanyahu repeatedly lauded the Russian leader for his intellect and his \u201cparticularly friendly attitude\u201d toward the Jewish people. Putin, too, has over the years cast himself as a loyal ally of the Israeli [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":38761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[5304,10632,12246,12921,5930,3095,8662,1152,9336,3174,1511,71,3457,5217,6584,5180,5647,694,5251],"class_list":["post-38760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-attack","tag-attitude","tag-diplomatic","tag-goodwill","tag-hamas","tag-israel","tag-jewish-people","tag-kremlin","tag-memoir","tag-prime-minister","tag-prime-minister-israeli-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-travel","tag-ukraine","tag-visa","tag-vladimir-putin","tag-war"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38762,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38760\/revisions\/38762"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}