[marcusmaximus]

“We have long recognised the Palestinian State since the Soviet Union era. Our approach in this regard has not changed,”

[ncfool]

Laughable

[Long Jon No Silver]

Bit rich coming from RasPutin. Grozny, Ukraine. Puck Futin.

[Roadrunner383]

Russia has always been an enemy of Israel, and the U.S.

[faithhopecharity]

pray for the world when its two most massive nuclear powers are led by demented antiques increasingly unable to mentally associate with reality

[wastedyears]

People are noticing.

[Darksheare]

Yeah, so?
Our current government “recognizes” imaginary peoples, genders, and countries too.

[Thunder90]

Do not underestimate Russia!!! Also, Russia is still communist.

[PIF]

the Gaza Strip, where Israel has killed more than 36,000 Palestinians since 7 October and left most civilians homeless and at risk of famine

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Good Start. Go Israel!!

[RAldrich]

News for Putin: the “Palestinians” don’t want a “two-state solution.” Never have, since it was proposed in the 1930’s.

But he probably knows that. Just playing to the peanut gallery. (An old trick of rulers - to focus on the Jews, in order to distract attention from domestic and other problems.)

[Ancesthntr]

While it is understandable that Putin wants to take attention away from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (which, under international law makes Russia and its leaders responsible for ALL of the casualties and deaths) by drawing attention to Israel and Gaza, it is an absurd comparison and also lies.

First, as mentioned above, Russia was the aggressor against Ukraine, whereas Israel was the victim party in its conflict.

Second, on a proportional basis, Israel lost more dead in one day than Russia did in probably 1 year - and, again, Israel wasn’t the aggressor.

Third, of the supposed 36,000 Arab dead (a figure put out by Hamas, hardly a paragon of truth-telling), roughly half are actual Hamas fighters - so you have maybe 20,000 civilians have died. Now, that’s a tragedy - but: a) the blame for that is squarely on Hamas for not just starting the war, but also for purposely using its own civilians as human shields - they WANT casualties among their own people, just for propaganda purposes; and b) considering other conflicts, the ratio of civilian to combatant deaths is literally the lowest in this conflict (IOW, Israel is being extraordinarily careful - moreso than even we and the Brits in the Mideast in the last couple of decades. Vlad and his ham-handed army have absolutely inflicted MANY more civilian casualties in the Ukraine was (that he started), both in absolute numbers and relative to the number of military casualties.

So, in short, Putin would have been better off to say nothing.