According to several Israeli media, the Israeli and Turkish mediations launched this week are doomed to failure, because Vladimir Putin would only be ready to negotiate following having made territorial gains. However, the initiative of the Prime Minister of Israel, Naftali Bennett, is not useless.
Saturday, March 5, under exceptional circumstances, the Israeli Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett – a religious nationalist – broke with the Orthodox ban on any activity on a Shabbat day and embarked on several trips. In Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, then in Berlin to meet Chancellor Olaf Scholz, then in Brussels to talk to Charles Michel, the head of European diplomacy, not to mention telephone exchanges with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Overall, the Israeli press did not attach any particular importance to this mediation initiated by a Prime Minister trapped by the right, center and left wings of his heterogeneous government. In Ha’AretzAlon Pinkas is the most scathing:
Turkey’s and Israel’s offers of mediation are a doomed illusion. Despite (or because of) a slower than expected military advance, Russia is not going to negotiate anything now”.
Russia will only negotiate with
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