The “axis of evil” includes Iran and North Korea, which have been described today as “bigger, bolder — and more evil.” As Israel’s Ambassador to UN Gilad Erdan points out, “Russia will be hosting a Hamas delegation in Moscow! And not for the first time!” Erdan goes on to describe the “red carpet” treatment that is being accorded to Hamas and Yemen’s Houthis. Also this week, in a Russian-North Korea arms-for-food deal, 6,700 containers of artillery was shipped to Russia by North Korea in exchange for “much-needed” food. What does North Korea have to do with the war in Israel? Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, founder of the Israel Law Center, writes in Newsweek about the North Korea-Palestinian nexus:
North Korea has been providing military and financial support to Palestinian terror groups as far back as 1966, particularly those groups that shared its socialist and communist ideologies. North Korea provided pivotal assistance—weapons, money, documents, and covert diplomatic cover—to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the inventors of hijacking, and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the terror group that perpetrated the slaughter of more than 30 children in Ma’alot, Israel, in 1974.
While Trump the Washington Post claimed that Trump idolized Putin, and John Bolton called Trump a “Putin-loving moron,” America had stature while Trump was president. China North, Saudi Arabia and North Korea are among those countries which view Biden as a joke. Iran considers Biden to be a better option to Trump, who stymied the regime with sanctions. At no time has America fallen so low on the global front as under Joe Biden . Its enemies are emboldened everywhere. Israel now faces a global gang-up which is intensifying, and it cannot depend on America as it did under Trump, despite whatever offense Trump caused with his words and personality.
“Russia deepening ties with global axis of evil, Israel charges at UN,” by Tovah Lazaroff, Jerusalem Post, February 27, 2024:
Russia is deepening its ties with global forces of destabilization, chiefly Iran, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, told the General Assembly on Monday. Erdan’s comments came ahead of the parley Moscow is holding this week with Palestinian factions, including Hamas.
“This week, Russia will be hosting a Hamas delegation in Moscow! And not for the first time!” Erdan told the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, which held a debate to mark two years to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “Russia is one of the only places outside of the Middle East where Hamas terrorists and Houthi Jihadists are given the red-carpet treatment, even after October 7,” Erdan said.
“Russia is hosting those who are responsible for intentionally murdering babies, raping women, and burning families alive,” Erdan stated. He also added that “this meeting in Moscow is a result of something more dangerous. Russia is now deepening its ties with global forces of destabilization.”
His words underscored the shift in Israeli policy regarding Moscow since the start of the war, a conflict for which Jerusalem had initially attempted to hold a neutral line and maintain strong ties with both Russia and Ukraine.
The reason for Russian-Israeli ties cooling
The growing ties between Tehran and Moscow come as Iran has increased its military activity against Israel through attacks by its proxy groups: Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis. It has cooled Russian-Israeli ties while strengthening those with Ukraine.Erdan told the UNGA that “It is no secret that Hamas is merely one tentacle of Iran’s terror armies. This horde of death and destruction includes Hezbollah, the Houthis, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other terror organizations. They are funded, trained, armed, and directed by Iran.”…