Putin Tells Israel that Ground Assault on Gaza Is Unacceptable

Get a load of the marbles on this guy, will ya?

Photo by Sunder Muthukumaran on Unsplash

Mother Theresa has been reborn. Yes, the saint from Calcutta is alive and well but sadly trapped inside the puffy and sick body of Vladimir Putin. The man who launched a war on a made-up premise that has not only resulted in thousands of dead, innocent Ukrainians but well over 100,000 dead Russian soldiers is lecturing to Israel about the need to seek mindfulness and cease and desist. 

Genocide is Vladimir Putin’s latest crime against humanity. If Russians had just half a clue, they would understand how screwed their country is going forward, thanks to Putin’s war of aggression against a nation that has always been considered part of the family. It makes a person want to pull up outside the eastern gates of the Kremlin with a big wheelbarrow and request to weigh the marbles kicking around between Putin’s legs.

Putin’s fingerprints all over the Hamas attack?

I didn’t even want to consider that this could be the case until my wife mentioned it. A Russian citizen with distant cousins living in Israel, she once spent a summer living and working with the family. Russians, both Jewish and non-Jewish, flock to Israel because a visa is unnecessary, so there is a special place in their hearts for the country despite the anti-Semitism that is prevalent in Russia. She was very upset about the attacks and immediately began trashing Putin.

She made the connection between Moscow and Teheran and then drew the line from there to Hamas. It made all the sense in the world. When the Kremlin offered no condolences to Israel, political analysts made up excuses. Putin is upset, they said, that Israel didn’t believe that the Jewish Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, was a Nazi. I don’t think the Kremlin expects anyone to believe that nonsense except Russians and dummy civilians in other countries. No world leader is going to fall for that obvious crock of propaganda.

The Kremlin’s surreptitious activities resurfaced in a surprise attack on Israel by the terrorist group Hamas, code-named Operation Al-Aqsa. Israel’s ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor, described the attack as “the single deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust.”

It was a multi-domain assault — air, land, sea, and cyber. Well beyond the recognized capabilities of Hamas, fueling speculation that the terrorist organization received direct support from Iran, and likely from Russia as well (Fingerprints Are All Over the Hamas Attack).

Putin was unable to criticize Hamas because he was supporting them. If he tossed them under the bus and joined in condemning like most of the world, except for China and other morally bankrupt nations, Hamas could strike back against Moscow and prove their participation. Putin had to keep silent and has to this day. There has not been any condemnation of Hamas by the Kremlin yet. 

The Kremlin, of course, has found time to blame — guess who — the United States.

“The major tragedy that Israelis and Palestinians are currently experiencing is the direct result of the United States’ failed policy in the Middle East,” Putin said.

“The Americans, with the support of their European satellites, tried to monopolize” the Middle East peace process, Putin said (Putin Cautions Israel).

Kyiv has compared Moscow to Hamas, and they are spot on with that comparison. Russia is now a state that uses terrorism to make other countries bend to its will. The unprecedented attack by Hamas on Israel is straight out of the Moscow handbook. The refusal by the Kremlin to accept that Kyiv could want to create a government not poisoned by Russia’s corruption is a reality that most Russians can’t fathom. 

Russia, however, is sowing turmoil everywhere it can. The attack on the Finnish-owned Balticconnector pipeline this past week and its support for the Hamas attack. These diversions are designed to overwhelm a world already weary of the war in Ukraine. As resources spread ever thinner, each new attack and crisis permits Moscow to catch its breath.

Unable to defeat Ukraine on the battlefield and unable to train and supply an army that wouldn’t be wiped out in a matter of days in a head-to-head conflict with NATO, Moscow can only do one thing: Instigate crises that could quickly escalate things to nuclear war rhetoric.

If I were the leader of Israel, I would step before the world to repeat Putin’s warning about not assaulting Gaza, and then I would offer Putin a one-finger salute.

For the record

Israel should not demand that one million civilians relocate from the North of Gaza. This is what I can support. Those women and children had nothing to do with the actions of the Hamas terrorists.