Requesting Israel as the place for the negotiations is maybe mostly because Zelensky and virtually the entirety of the Ukraine government is Jewish, but it’s also because Russia is still at odds with Israel in Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East, where the Jews are still involved in low-intensity conflict with Russia’s allies in the region.
But ultimately: the Ukrainian president is literally a foreign agent, and he’s requesting negotiations to be mediated by the country he is loyal to. Imagine if the Ukraine had a Bolivian president, and demanded negotiations take place in Bolivia.
RT:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has expressed his readiness for negotiations with Russia. He requested that the Israeli prime minister convene peace talks in Jerusalem.
“A group of Ukrainians and Russian representatives are discussing certain issues. They began talking about something, and not just throwing out ultimatums,” Zelensky said on Saturday, during a press conference with foreign media.
Kiev is of the view that any high-profile talks with Russia should be held on neutral territory, Zelensky said, naming Israel as a potential host for such negotiations.
“We spoke with [Israeli Prime Minister Naftali] Bennett, and I said that today it is not right [to hold] meetings in Russia, in Belarus. I’m not talking about technical meetings – I’m talking about leaders’ meetings. Do I think that Israel can be such a land, and Jerusalem? Yes, I think so. And I told him that,” Zelensky stated.
However, the president said, if the outcome was to be successful, his country would need certain “security guarantees” that the ongoing conflict was settled not only from the perspective of Russia, but also from that of the West. Israel could act as a guarantor in that respect, he suggested.
That means there can’t be any settlement.
If the issue could be settled in a way that met the demands of both Russia and the West, there would not have been an invasion in the first place. Putin made the terms of the situation very clear before the invasion, consistently, and the Americans treated it like a joke. The American media didn’t really even report on it.
The State Department has said explicitly that they’ll reject any attempts to reach a diplomatic solution to the alleged crisis.
Of course, they’re eventually not going to have any choice, because no matter how many sanctions there are, no matter how many weapons the West is able to ship in, within 4-6 weeks, Russia will control Kiev, Odessa and everything east of those two points, and unless NATO is going to invade, they won’t be able to do anything other than whine.
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