{"id":1420343,"date":"2022-04-05T15:14:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T19:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1420343"},"modified":"2022-04-05T15:14:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T19:14:40","slug":"zelensky-post-war-ukraine-will-be-like-israel-wont-be-liberal-european","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zelensky-post-war-ukraine-will-be-like-israel-wont-be-liberal-european\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky: Post-war Ukraine Will Be Like Israel, Won\u2019t Be \u2018Liberal, European\u2019"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fzelensky-post-war-ukraine-will-be-like-israel-wont-be-liberal-european%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=1420343&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\">Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday post-war Ukraine will likely be modeled as a \u201cbig Israel\u201d in terms of security with self-protection, and will no longer be a \u201cliberal European\u201d city.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUkraine will definitely not be what we wanted it to be from the beginning. It is impossible. Absolutely liberal, European \u2013 it will not be like that. It [Ukraine] will definitely come from the strength of every house, every building, every person,\u201d Zelensky said at a press briefing.<\/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>\u201cWe will become a \u2018big Israel\u2019 with its own face. We will not be surprised if we have representatives of the Armed Forces or the National Guard in cinemas, supermarkets, and people with weapons. I am confident that the question of security will be the issue number one for the next 10 years. I am sure of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added he would not, however, allow it to turn into an authoritarian state which \u201cis impossible in Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn authoritarian state would lose to Russia. People know what they are fighting for,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>According to Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Michael Brodskyuch, Zelensky\u2019s remarks are \u201cnot new.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Israel has \u201calways been a role model for Ukraine, at least in terms of security and self-protection,\u201d\u00a0Brodskyuch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/world-news\/europe\/.premium-zelenskyy-says-post-war-ukraine-will-emulate-israel-won-t-be-liberal-european-1.10721395\">told<\/a> the <em>Haaretz<\/em> daily.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Zelensky established a new wing of the armed forces on Monday called the \u201cInternational Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine,\u201d intended for foreign nationals who wish to come to fight in the country\u2019s war against Russia. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QO57Zduqtk\">https:\/\/t.co\/QO57Zduqtk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1498802348168257543?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel Yevgen Korniychuk told the newspaper that Kyiv did not allow itself to rely on international security pacts, like those received after its nuclear disarmament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsraelis have lived surrounded by enemies for all of their history and Ukraine will be doing the same,\u201d Korniychuk said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow we have to retain much bigger armed forces against our two neighboring states and that\u2019s why our leadership currently sees that, no matter what happens next, [things] in Ukraine will be similar to the security situation in Israel. You will see more armed people in the streets, even when things become more peaceful than they are now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last December, amid Russian deployment on the Ukrainian border, Zelensky compared his country\u2019s struggle against Russia to the Israeli-Arab conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Haaretz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/world-news\/europe\/.premium-ukrainian-leader-compares-russia-tensions-to-israel-and-its-arab-neighbors-1.10470058\">cited<\/a> Zelensky as saying that Israel is \u201coften an example for Ukraine\u201d and that \u201cboth Ukrainians and Jews value freedom,\u201d working \u201cequally for the future of our states to become to our liking, and not the future which others want for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know what it\u2019s like not to have [one\u2019s] own state,\u201d Zelensky, who is Jewish, told the Kyiv Jewish Forum. \u201cWe know what it means to defend one\u2019s own state and land with weapons in hand, at the cost of [their] own lives.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday post-war Ukraine will likely be modeled as a \u201cbig Israel\u201d in terms of security with self-protection, and will no longer be a \u201cliberal<\/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-1420343","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\/1420343","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=1420343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420343\/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=1420343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}