{"id":1367048,"date":"2022-03-09T13:01:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T18:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1367048"},"modified":"2022-03-09T13:01:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T18:01:43","slug":"report-israel-believes-ukraine-talks-at-critical-juncture-ceasefire-or-catastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-israel-believes-ukraine-talks-at-critical-juncture-ceasefire-or-catastrophe\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Israel Believes Ukraine Talks at Critical Juncture &#8212; Ceasefire or Catastrophe"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-israel-believes-ukraine-talks-at-critical-juncture-ceasefire-or-catastrophe%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1367048&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Israel believes Russia and Ukraine are at a critical juncture and pending a possible ceasefire, but if talks fail, the Russian invasion of Ukraine could become far more brutal, the\u00a0<em>Axios <\/em>news site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/israel-russia-ukraine-ceasefire-critical-point-5cb18c61-deba-46fb-b637-571614138dd8.html\">reported<\/a> Wednesday citing government officials.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has been acting as mediator between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, speaking with each leader multiple times since the weekend and even making a lightening trip to Moscow to meet with the Russian president on Saturday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>According to Israeli officials, Putin is has softened his stance and is no longer demanding a regime change in Ukraine and its demilitarization. The Russian president is now willing to pull out his troops if only the eastern Donbas region is demilitarized. Putin has also demanded that Ukraine recognize Crimea as Russian. Meanwhile Zelensky has told ABC News that he has \u201ccooled down\u201d regarding plans to join NATO.<\/p>\n<p>However, senior Israeli officials cited both by Axios and the Hebrew-language Maarive newspaper said the situation could drastically deteroriate\u00a0if Zelensky refuses to give in to Russia\u2019s ceasefire terms, triggering a far more calamitous conflict in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20138570\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/400-Ukrainian-refugees-arrive-in-Israel-interior-minister-warns-of-surge.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Three flights carrying more than 400 Ukrainian refugees arrived in Israel on Sunday following Russia\u2019s invasion of the country. (Debbie Hill\/UPI)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Israel, which will not advise Zelensky to choose either way, maintains that Putin is determined to ratchet up some kind of victory and that any refusal of his terms by Ukraine will compel him to double down on the attack front.<\/p>\n<p>Israel is one of few Western democracies that is an ally of both Russia and Ukraine and has been cautious about taking sides since Moscow\u2019s invasion. Russia also has heavy military presence in Syria and controls its skies and as such, Jerusalem coordinates all military strikes on Iranian targets in Syria with Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>While Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid condemned Russia\u2019s invasion as a \u201cbreach of the international order,\u201d the country has stopped short of offering military assistance or directly condemning Russia.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1.5 million Israeli citizens are from Russia and In addition, both Ukraine and Russia have large Jewish communities and Israel sees itself as a protector of Jews in the Diaspora.<\/p>\n<p>However, on Monday Lapid said Israel would continue to condemn Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsrael is totally committed to do everything possible to stop the war in Ukraine,\u201d said Lapid on Monday. \u201cWe have condemned the Russian invasion, and we still do.\u00a0 And Israel is a partner in the global effort to make sure and verify that this war must be stopped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way to stop a war is to negotiate. Israel is speaking with both sides, both with Russia and Ukraine, and we are working in full coordination with our greatest ally, the United States, and our European partners.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel believes Russia and Ukraine are at a critical juncture and pending a possible ceasefire, but if talks fail, the Russian invasion of Ukraine could become far more brutal, the\u00a0Axios<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1367048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1367048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1367048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1367048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1367048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}