Posted on 10/19/2022 12:45:52 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
His comments come a day after Ukrain said it would formally ask Israel to supply it with air defense systems like the Iron Dome.
“Israel is maintaining a policy of supporting Ukraine through humanitarian support, and supplying life-saving systems and defensive equipment,” Gantz told ambassadors from EU nations.
“Israel will not transfer weapon systems to Ukraine due to a variety of operational considerations,” he went on.
“We will continue to support Ukraine within our limitations, as we have done so far,” he said.
He continued by saying Israel had asked Ukraine for “data that would allow us to assist in the construction and supply of a smart alert system like there is in Israel against aerial and other threats.”
“Such a system will have advantages both in saving civilian lives and in targeting alerts and alarms to the relevant areas,” he said.
Israel’s alarm system detects incoming projectiles using radars and electrooptic lasers. Once a threat has been detected, civilians are alerted either by app, sirens, or in the media.
A day earlier, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba chided Israel for not “openly siding” with Kyiv.
“If Israel’s policy is really to consistently counter Iran’s destructive actions, then it is time for Israel to openly side with Ukraine,” Kuleba said.
Lapid is slated to meet with Kuleba this week to discuss aid to Kyiv.
According to Ukrainain reports, more than 70 people have died in the past week from Russia’s assault on cities over the past week using Iranian-made Shahed-136 drones and other missiles. The U.S. has deemed Russia’s actions as war crimes.
Earlier this week, former Russian president and Putin ally Dmitry Medvedev warned Israel any weapon sales
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Israel sees the handwriting on the wall.
Ayn Rand was right.
Do you have a problem with Israel helping to build a missile defense system, which is — as the name implies — strictly defensive in nature, and would put no Russians at risk of physical harm?
Israel doesn’t want to give them the “Iron Dome,” because it will be shown to be semi-effective only against unguided home-made Hamas stove-pipe rockets.
And, if Israel does build Ukraine a missile warning system, it will be for sale on whatever the current Dark Web’s version of eBay is within 3 months.
Zelenskyy doesn’t want stuff for defense. He wants cash, or stuff he and his friends can sell for cash.
“Israel doesn’t want to give them the “Iron Dome,” because it will be shown to be semi-effective only against unguided home-made Hamas stove-pipe rockets.”
No, because we don’t want the tech stolen and sold to someone.
We barely share it with the USA and much of it is a black box because we don’t trust certain elements of your government to keep it safe.
LOL, you win.
Both are an extremely apt metaphor with what is going on.
There are weapons that could be sent, but lots and lots of the Russian conscripts are Jewish.
Kind of “against mission” of the modern state of Israel.
I thought, based upon almost nothing, that both countries had a decent sized Jewish population?...
Israel trusting Ukraine with anything is probably not in their long term self interest.
They do.
By far the most common new immigrants to Israel are from Russia, closely followed by the Ukraine.
Literally every family I know has a relative in one or both countries.
It’s a super precarious balancing act.
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