{"id":1399049,"date":"2022-03-24T16:30:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T20:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1399049"},"modified":"2022-03-24T16:30:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T20:30:31","slug":"zelenksy-aide-israeli-intelligence-cooperating-very-closely-with-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zelenksy-aide-israeli-intelligence-cooperating-very-closely-with-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenksy Aide: Israeli Intelligence &#039;Cooperating Very Closely&#039; with Ukraine"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fzelenksy-aide-israeli-intelligence-cooperating-very-closely-with-ukraine%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=1399049&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--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Ukraine\u2019s intelligence services are\u00a0 working in \u201cclose cooperation\u201d with their Israeli counterparts, a senior aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s said Thursday according to the <em>Haaretz<\/em> daily.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have very big respect for the leaders of your intelligence services,\u201d Andriy Yermak, head of Zelensky\u2019s office, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/.premium-top-zelenskyy-aide-israeli-intelligence-cooperating-very-closely-with-ukraine-1.10696343\">told<\/a> Israeli reporters. \u201cI know many of them personally. These are very big professionals and patriots of Israel and patriots of the whole free world. So I do know that our intelligence is satisfied with this cooperation, but of course there is always more that can be done,\u201d he said.<\/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>He added that Israel\u2019s intelligence community was \u201cone of the best of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yermak praised Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett\u2019s efforts to mediate between Ukraine and Russia,<\/p>\n<p>He added that he considered Jerusalem \u201cas one of the priority venues for the meeting of President Zelensky with the president of the Russian Federation.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt is high time now for that meeting of the presidents to take place. The war has been going on for too long,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed his hope that Israel would become a guarantor of any security guarantees for Ukraine in a future peace accord.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett offered to act as a mediator between Russia and Ukraine during a phone call with President Vladimir Putin on Sunday, a statement from the Kremlin said. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2sGt1mMAFu\">https:\/\/t.co\/2sGt1mMAFu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1497988103738429441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yermak dismissed reports that Bennett had pressurized Zelensky into accepting Russia\u2019s demands for territorial compromise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere hasn\u2019t been any pressure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>He added Russian demands have softened, although fundamental differences remain, and Ukraine is now cautiously optimistic.<\/p>\n<p>While territorial concessions are off the table, the question of Donbas and Crimea can be discussed, he said.<\/p>\n<p>He did, however, criticize Israel for not doing more in terms of helping the Ukraine with weapons and spyware.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have given clear expectations we need Iron Dome system and other types of weapons,\u201d he said. Israeli defense experts have maintained that Israel\u2019s missile defense system would be useless in the type of conflict that Ukraine is facing, however.<\/p>\n<p>He slammed\u00a0Israeli criticism of Zelensky\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/middle-east\/2022\/03\/20\/invoking-holocaust-in-speech-to-israeli-lawmakers-zelensky-calls-to-prevent-russian-final-solution\/\">speech to the Knesset<\/a> earlier this week in which he compared the Russian invasion with the Holocaust as \u201c100% fake news and lies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZelensky has never compared [this to] the Holocaust of the Second World War, when millions of Jews were exterminated and I\u2019d like to remind you that our President is a Jew and I have Jewish blood as well,\u201d Yermak said. \u201cThere is no need to tell us, we understand the tragedy of the Jewish people. He never made that comparison. He was saying the Russians\u2019 behavior on our territory, destroying our cities and killing civilians, is very similar to what the Nazis were doing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine\u2019s intelligence services are\u00a0 working in \u201cclose cooperation\u201d with their Israeli counterparts, a senior aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s said Thursday according to the Haaretz daily. \u201cI have very<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"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-1399049","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\/1399049","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\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399049\/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=1399049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}