Russia wants to use Israel-Hamas conflict to reduce Western support to Ukraine: ISW

T. Belman. I blame the West too. Always protecting the Palestinians and stopping Israel from defeating Fatah and Hamas.

Always ignoring the intent of Hamas and the PA to destroy Israel and forcing Israel to get in bed with them

Always financially supporting the PA and UNRWA knowing they were terrorists.

and we should cancell the deal that Biden insisted on in which we gave Hezbollah some of our gas fields.

By Tuqa Khalid, Al Arabiya English  08 October ,2023: 08:06 AM GST

Russia is already and will continue to exploit the Hamas attacks in Israel to advance several information operations intended to reduce US and Western support and attention to Ukraine, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said on Sunday.

The Washington-based think tank said: “The Kremlin amplified several information operations following Hamas attacks in Israel, primarily blaming the West for neglecting conflicts in the Middle East in favor of supporting Ukraine and claiming the international community will cease to pay attention to Ukraine by portraying attention to the Middle East or alternatively Ukraine as a zero-sum comparison.”

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who is deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, said on X (formerly Twitter): “Clashes between Hamas and Israel on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War come as an expected development. This is what Washington and its allies should be busy with. The conflict between Israel and Palestine has been going on for decades, with the US the key player in it.”<

Medvedev added: “But instead of actively working at Palestinian-Israeli settlement, these morons have interfered with us, and are providing the neo-Nazis with full-scale aid, pitting the two closely related peoples against each other.”

Prominent Russian propagandist Sergei Mardan flatly asserted that Russia will benefit from the outbreak of violence in Israel, as the world “will take its mind off Ukraine for a while and get busy once again putting out the eternal fire in the Middle East,” he wrote on Telegram.<

“These Kremlin narratives target Western audiences to drive a wedge in military support for Ukraine, seek to demoralize Ukrainian society by claiming Ukraine will lose international support, and intend to reassure Russian domestic audiences that the international society will ignore Ukraine’s war effort,” ISW said.

Hamas launched an unexpected and unprecedented surprise attack on Israel on Saturday. Supported by a barrage of rockets, Hamas militants breached the blockade from Gaza Strip into adjacent Israeli towns. This sudden incursion resulted in numerous casualties and abductions – more than 200 dead and over a 1,000 injured, according to the IDF.

The IDF said Hamas launched more than 3,000 rockets toward Israel, and the group’s militants abducted Israeli civilians and soldiers and have taken them hostage into Gaza.

In response, Israel, taken aback by the assault, initiated airstrikes within Gaza. The Israeli prime minister declared a state of war with Hamas, pledging to impose an unparalleled cost on the militant group for their actions.

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  1. The US primarily under Obama and Biden put in place the most anti-Israel and anti-American set of policies and actions that a perverse group of people could come up with.

    To his enormous credit, Bibi called out Obama’s treachery in his address to Congress.

    Israel has been up against a massive efforts from all sides internationally to prop up Islamic genocidal maniacs and make them out to be the real good guys.

    While there are lots of evil supporters of these murderers around the world, the Biden/Obama regime is crumbling under the weight of its own rottenness.

    More and more Americans are aware that Biden with Obama behind him has put the US on a downhill train running off the rails into oblivion, and has caused death and destruction in many parts of the world.

    There is this report:
    https://gellerreport.com/2023/10/muslim-terrorists-hamas-thanks-ukraine-weapons.html/

    Obama empowered Iran through the nuclear deal from hell to develop a nuclear weapon, so he began the process of empowering Iran to destroy the US and Israel.

    He used social media to foment revolt and revolution in the Middle East. Then used the same to foment revolt with Black Lives Matter in the US and the false flag operation on January 6th.

    Meanwhile he put inside the US government as many people as he could who were Islamist extremists, Black nationalists, even Iranian spies, as well as Communists and globalists all of whom are united in wanting to destroy the sovereignty of the US.

    Thus he built an empowered nuclear Iran to attack US and Israel from OUTSIDE the US and an empowered fifth column INSIDE the US government with which to attack the US and Israel.

    Biden has been his puppet in putting the final pieces into place.

  2. @Sebastien

    The aid is mostly political pork for constituencies

    Corollary to your comment here is that where this is true of ‘aid’ going to Israel, the real aid which is going to Lebanon, Hamas and the PA is not so restricted. The US and the international community have been supporting the terror infrastructure which has stood against Israel for decades to the tune of multiple of billions of dollars. Yesterday a report made by the German Finance minister addressed the preposterous nature of his govt sending aid to these terrorists and then condemning them for conducting terrorist attacks while still sending them aid, when the fact that this is not a new point of criticism against his or other governments around the world.

  3. What’s wrong with that? Is the U.S. doing anything to fight Hamas or Hezbollah? Has it ever? Has even one American soldier ever fought for Israel? Nooo. What were all those joint exercises for, anyway? What a waste of time. Like Russia, the U.S. is only interested in a comparatively stable region though, apart from Trump, it’s leadership has shown itself to be utterly incompetent. The aid is mostly political pork for constituencies in states with military factories – in competition with Israeli factories, in many cases – that get paid to make junk to send to Israel like the F35.

  4. Clashes between Hamas and Israel on the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War come as an expected development. This is what Washington and its allies should be busy with. The conflict between Israel and Palestine has been going on for decades, with the US the key player in it.

    Medvedev added: “But instead of actively working at Palestinian-Israeli settlement, these morons have interfered with us, and are providing the neo-Nazis with full-scale aid, pitting the two closely related peoples against each other.

    There is nothing in this statement which supports the title conclusion of this article. The rest of the article is pure conjecture, supporting the Neocon central spoke-thinktank, the ISW, which is of little use beyond spreading the Neocon narrative on any given topic.

    If Russia had a hand in this war, it will be made clear, but Neoconic anti-Russian rhetoric presented by anti-Russian Neocons should not be the litmus test of providing such clarity.

  5. T. Belman. I blame the West too. Always protecting the Palestinians and stopping Israel from defeating Fatah and Hamas

    Very true and, by far, not harsh enough.

  6. One more piece is now inserted in the global war Jigsaw puzzle of East vs West. Step by Step we are involved , Israel totally unaware , unprepared , impotent from heads to hearts. This war IS NOT the usual Gaza Hamas violence. It the start of an overall war from every corner , including Arab towns inside Israel.
    It would be very dumb to maintain we seek limited targets.
    It would be very dumb to knee jerk because the EU , State department looks for calming down, restraining Israel.
    But it’s 35 years Israel leadership-medias keep maskerading the colossal blunder achieved by Rabin-Péres-Barak .The same blunder is now repeated Ad Nauseam by the pseudo-right, of Bibi-Gallant . The Lapid-Gantz looks like grotesque, worn-out clowns .
    As a result of this paradigm inversion Israelis are now shopping mall addicts , not anymore fighters nor winners, their leaders are just Jelly tigers.

  7. Medvedev added: “But instead of actively working at Palestinian-Israeli settlement, these morons…”

    Medvedev thinks it is “moronic” to neglect the Palestinian-Israeli settlement. I think he is wrong.