Public sentiment is predominantly critical of Russia's alleged support for Israel against Iran, with widespread skepticism about Russia's trustworthiness as an ally. There is a strong defensive sentiment for Iran's right to self-defense, coupled with frustration over perceived double standards and moral ambiguity in international relations involving all parties. Many commenters express disillusionment with geopolitical alliances and criticize Israel's actions as unjust.

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Kooky-Sector6880

why putin must give a fuck if xi jinping is not giving one ?

BasedAbstinent_0_

Russia was never an ally , I hope tankies can shut up now

Gintoki---

That's bullshit.

Russia simply needs to focus on its war on Ukraine.

There's a reason they withdrew from Syria.

They couldn't fight in Ukraine and back Syria at the same time.

What makes you think they will do anything for Iran.

bahhaar-blts

Putin is an opportunist and he cares about strengthening Russia’s power globally much more than he cares about allies for ideological reasons.

Actual_Nothing988

Israel, Russia, and America have so much in common culturally and/or politically. All 3 of them are rogue nuclear weapons states with aggressively warmongering governments who run on insane jingoistic nationalism and contempt against international laws. Not to mention that all of them were historically founded with colonialist ambitions that resulted in ethnic cleansing and genocide against indigenous peoples.

source: [https://x.com/DrEliDavid/status/1936537899505271165](https://x.com/DrEliDavid/status/1936537899505271165)

  
the guy is a piece of shit and a Zionist, but the video is real and the translation is accurate

Straight_Ad2258

Russia has killed thousands of muslims from Afghanistan ,Syria to Chechnya

Majestic-Effort-541

This is what the "patriotism" the Russian government is all crazy about the last few years boils down to: picking preferences/sides not over the truth or over justice but rather over how similar to you people are, just ethnonationalism with extra steps, disgraceful stuff

KGBAg3nt

Russia ultimately wants to nudge Iran to overplay its hand in closing the Strait of Hormuz. Without this strait, neither China nor Japan can meet even half of their refinery demand, which increase their dependence on Moscow. The increased revenue from higher crude prices also help Russia erase sanction pressure. 

Iran has little to gain by alienating its top customer (China) and risking US-GCC retaliation. Russia wants the US to continue redirecting hardware away from Ukraine (EUCOM) and toward the Middle East (CENTCOM).

Rey_del_Doner

Finally someone said it. There are millions of them and they prefer to speak in Russian than in Hebrew, even after 2 generations. They consume media material that is in Russian. They are the white Russian Jews and they will stay as such 

Brown Jews will be expanded on "glorious" missions, while Slavic "Jews" will continue to commute between their motherland and promised-land whenever waves of instability hit 

We don't call them Polish/Slavic immigrants for nothing. I bet they even find Hebrew oriental and thus contemptible

kyzylkhum

anoncarbmuncher

He’s right, I think Russian is the 2nd most spoken language for Israeli jews after Hebrew. Plus there’s a lot of business ties between Russian Oligarchs and Israeli investors

DiskoB0

I mean we know this anyways, most of the Jewish population is occupied Palestine is Slavic.

The-Lord_ofHate

Unless you were Assad, Russia doesn't seem like the most dependable ally.

EveningIntention

Assad, Armenia and now Iran, sums up what a reliable ally Russia really is...

Cynical_Rashid

Russia will always side with its interests, even if that means betraying its former allies and making new alliances with US and Israel

**There is a reason why Israel is not on Russia's unfriendly country list, but Australia, New Zeeland, South Korea, Taiwan are**

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfriendly\_countries\_list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfriendly_countries_list)

should a US-Israel-Russia axis form( possibly joined by India in the future), both Europe and the Arab world are absolutely cooked

dakuv

Putin is helping Iran contrary to what's being claimed here namely he already supplied weapons albeit he tried to pass that of as "previous weapons deliveries"

Alsoe Mendev is directly arguing about supplyinr Iran with nukes  
(https://www.newsweek.com/russia-says-countries-now-ready-supply-iran-nuclear-weapons-2088979)

Moist-Performance-73

MilesOfEmptiness6550

1. There are many Muslims living in Russia, both from regions of Russia (Dagestan, Chechnia) and from other countries. This people support the people of Palestine.

2. There are some jews in Russia (1 region and some organisations all over the country). Many people have connection with relatives and friends who emigrated to Israel.

3. I think other types of people aren't as interested in this fight.

So it\`s not a simple question.

Makkey105

KurufinweFeanaro

Not our conflict, but it's obvious that (1) Israel doesn't care about civilian losses, and (2) the West doesn't sanction Israel demonstrating once again that they are just a bunch of moralizing morons with woeful double standards.

FancyBear2598

In general it's divided. Many people have jewish ancestors, especially among more educated big city residents. They are mostly for Israel. Plus russian people of more conservative views I think also more for Israel. 

People who have muslim background I suppose are more for Gaza. Also leftists are also more for Gaza.

But that's not a really hot topic as I see, people in general don't have to strong opinion about the topic

mmalakhov

 Well, it's complicated. If we talk about the current conflict, then the expression "the toad fuck*d the viper" fits it perfectly (that means that both sides are equally wrong). On the one hand, radical Islam and terrorism, on the other, colonialism and ethnic cleansing.

Culturally, the average Russian is closer to Israel; there are many Russian emigrants among them and many Israeli residents speak Russian fluently. However, the problem is that politically this is often the most Russophobic part of media. If you see some radically anti-Russian activist or blogger on the Internet, then they are almost certainly radically pro-Israel, and sometimes an Israeli citizen. These are the people most prone to Eurocentric racism and hate for all cultures except the Western one.

In addition, there are quite a large number of Muslims in Russia who support Palestine on religious grounds.

Omnio-

Wardrune

PumpkinsEye

We don't have any beef with the peoples there. Terrorist for one side are freedom fighters from the other and all that jazz, as long as they don't attack us, we can try to talk.

Let me be extremely cynical for a moment, disregard the tragedy of very real human lives and take a broader look. Israel as a country is a mistake born from collective guilt towards Jewish people. It is completely artificial and alien to the local culture.

The only logical way for resolving that conflict is the only way one culture always carved the space for itself in the lands of another culture - literal or cultural genocide. As both peoples are heavily religious, cultural genocide and assimilation are next to impossible. That leaves literal genocide.
In my extremely cynical view, either Israel has to man up, stop begging for aid, exterminate its opposition by their own strength and suffer the consequences, or shut up, admit that they lost that particular piece of land and the very concept of statehood a VERY LONG time ago and give up.

ElectroVenik90

Russian Jews generally support Israel, Russian Muslims, especially practicing Muslims generally support Palestine, ethnic Russians are generally neutral and see it as a far away conflict, official propaganda supports two-states solution since Soviet times. I guess the only outlier are Russian liberals (or pseudo liberals) who rabidly support all of Israel's actions, no matter how morally questionable those actions are.

FaithlessnessBig3795

In my opinion both Hamas and Tzahal are terrorists, killing civilians. But Israel is literally began genocide of Palestinians. I support civilian in both this country

MFLetov

Generally the attitude I've seen is "a plague on both your houses". There's no love lost between us and radical Islamists, what with the wars of our own with them, but we have no blind spot when it comes to Israel either. 

There's perhaps more criticism of Israel and their leadership, because they've shown themselves a lot more incompetent (and that never evokes sympathy) and because there's more institutional support towards them from the West. While Gaza is a bit of an underdog, and it's a little redundant to criticize terrorists like Hamas for being terrorists, so you don't hear it too often. 

But like I say, there's no taking sides - not our conflict, not our business.

Dawidko1200

Personally, I wish good luck to both sides.

Korvin-lin-sognar

Well, most Russians with a conscience stand with humanity, while those with prejudice cheer for genocidal Israel. It’s not geopolitics; it’s their character on display.

WalkstheTalk

flamming_python

It seems to me that most Russians don't care about conflicts between other countries as long as those conflicts don't affect them.

InesMM78

I think there are 3 narratives in Russia. 

Pro-Israel, represented mostly by upper-middle class people from Moscow and other big cities, some IT people, supporters of the liberal opposition and some young right-wing nationalists. Contrary to stereotypes, there are not so many people with Jewish roots here, as there are almost no Jews left in Russia, except among famous or rich people.

Pro-Palestinian, represented almost exclusively by Muslims and aging Soviet Orientalists.

Anti-Israeli, i.e. people who are quite cool towards Palestinians and Muslims in general, but dislike Israel and Jews even more. Represented by neo-Nazis, Soviet patriots and those who simply troll on the topic of «why there are sanctions against Russia and no sanctions against Israel»

Most ethnic Russians who are anti-Israel are from the third camp rather than the second.

I don’t know what the percentage distribution of all three camps is. I think most non-politicized ordinary people don’t care or are slightly in favor of Israel.

SeaArachnid5423

The USSR broke off relations with Israel after 1967 and only restored them in 1991. I would prefer it if they remained broken off.

PuzzleheadedPea2401

From my point of view I see big hate towards Israel. Russia automatically supports peoples who are being oppressed.

Aleksandr_Ulyev

I dont think so. Russia has the most muslim Population in europe. In few years the muslims will be the majority

Flat-Highlight5899

Big-Presentation-368

I'm neither Jewish nor Muslim. If someone knows a better way to deal with the organisation which literally made an oath to destroy Israel and resides in densely populated area, I'm interested to know

MaximGurinov

It's wild to me that Bolshevism, which was Jewish, led by the likes of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin. Killed millions and millions of Christians through famine and torture. But Russia supports Jews, are you a Christian country? Or an Israeli puppet?

CrumpleMcForskin

I believe that both states deserved to be destroyed.

LiberalusSrachnicus

Yet another war with no one willing to admit any fault. Just as always your average person has no idea what really goes behind all the major decisions, so it's not like there's any point in having firm opinion on morality of sides. Tho, if you ask me, if the choice is one last standing, there is no situation I ever chose arab, downright heinous culture.

Slavchanza

I dislike both.

Israel forced themselves, occupied land.

Then among Palestinians there is a group that formed resistance in form of terrorism. And they attacked civillians also. And then regular Palestinians suffer cause Israel can't afford to make difference between them.

Actually I recently randomly got a vid of girl who had to rn from war in Palestine and in Ukraine. Such luck.

[https://youtu.be/MSZgBjq2fmM?si=9yZVqCCSGg2TFwui](https://youtu.be/MSZgBjq2fmM?si=9yZVqCCSGg2TFwui)

marehgul

I of course pity the palestinians who suffer. At the same time i don't think that they would act better if they had the power advantage.

Sodinc

igotdoxxedlmao

My personal opinion - not our fight. Opinion of more emotional people is likely influenced by numerous cases of israeli missile strikes on Syria.

Rubear_RuForRussia

HendrikMoebus

Mercifully, Russia is one place the Gaza-flag-waving set cannot infect. Even the Muslims in Russia are too busy grinding for such histrionics. You won't find many people who will go beyond "nu, nye 'naio, no v printsipiy ya zhelaio mira" anyway.

ComfortableOwn5751

Some people supports Gaza, some supports Israel. Some thinks that thay are both bad ("don't want to choose between terrorists and genociders"). And some just doesn't care

Available_Taste3030

I don't support anyone. Israel and the Gaza Strip have a complicated history of relations. There are aggressive actions on both sides. Therefore, it is wrong to blame only one side.

Disastrous-Employ527

One side has been stripped of their land for the past 100 years and put into the bottom of the barrel and being shot and bombed with civilian casualties in the tens of thousands and the other side is a cold western colonial state that is doing the bombing and killing and stripping of land while suffering maybe 200 casualties per year.

Then the Russian says: "They are the same. They deserve each other. Both sides are to blame. Both sides are wrong.:

This puts on perfect display the hollowness of Russian morality.

Of course you are not inclined to support Gaza, Israel has been using your moves from your colonial and expansionist past and **present**.

Every downvote means my words offend you and if my words offend you then I am right.

MafSporter

Here I would say it is ambiguous, because Gaza is supported mainly (well, that is, almost 80% - 90%) by residents of regions where Muslims and Caucasian peoples mainly live. If we talk about the non-Muslim part of Russia and non-Caucasian peoples of Russia, then opinions are definitely not unambiguous. Like, my attitude to this is that on the one hand I condemn Israel's actions towards Gaza, but on the other hand I remember very well who started this shit, and it was the Houthis who started all this, who began bombing from the very morning (this is if we do not talk about the origins of this conflict). But looking at Europe and the USA, where rallies are taking place, then I have only contempt for such people, because in a foreign country anyone can go on strike, but these parasites cannot show it with their actions, because they are unemployed, lazy and useless people who are actually afraid. In addition, they themselves are refugees. Let them go and defend Gaza if they want to, look how many of them have cowardly fled to Europe and the US, but they are not afraid to strike.

  
And if we take the situation with Muslim migrants in Russia, I would not be surprised if the majority were for Israel among the non-Muslim population of Russia.

both are the worst. Nobody wants to stop.

mikhakozhin

Neutral or more supportive of Israel, unfortunately.

TheOtherDenton

Одна сторона прикрывается мирными жителями,другая-бомбит мирных жителей вообще ничего не стесняясь. Я желаю победы обоим участникам конфликта

Relative_Schedule581

I was denied boarding on my flight from Yerevan to Moscow by Aeroflot. The airline staff informed me that I must enter and exit Russia through the same airport. However, I had booked my arrival into Sheremetyevo Airport (SVO) and my departure from Domodedovo Airport (DME). Both of these airports are listed as eligible border crossing points for the unified e-visa.

Is there an official regulation that requires travelers with a Russian unified e-visa to use the same airport for both entry and exit?

I would greatly appreciate any clarification or assistance. I am currently stuck at the airport, and my flight has already departed.

Ok_Internet_9403

Fuck Russia and their antisemitic nature.

Alarmed-Sorbet-9095

All normal People regardless of country don't support terrorist. Just quick reminder 21 Russians were killed on october 7th by Hamas and peaceful plastelin People

TheJoeGrim

The relationship between the USSR and Israel is very interesting. The Soviets were full on board with Israel at first. The relationship fluctuated over time, though.

Mushgal

Tell me about Zimbabwe-Malaysian relations next please

serious_cheese

Captainirishy

I find that typing in the name of two random countries plus "relations" at the end is a good way to learn about geopolitics, particularly when it comes to countries whose relationship we don't often think about, e.g. Mexico and Vietnam.

Peter-Andre

France didn’t “help” Israel during the Suez crisis. France and the UK were pissy about Nasser nationalizing the canal so they wanted to overthrow him. They formed a secret alliance with Israel, in which Israel would attack Egypt so France and the UK can “defend” the canal by occupying it.

Paying for 15% of the GDP of Israel during the 50’s is far from being a big amount as it was a tiny and barely developed nation. Oh and you know, the U.S didn’t do the whole concentration camp thing on Jews that made them start supporting Israel.


About Czechoslovakia- “Ideology played no role in these initial transaction. They were exclusively commercial.” (From Wikipedia)


The U.S only started supporting Israel after 1967, but with a much more substantial aid. The Europeans didn’t really help Israel, it was mostly normal bilateral deals.

uvr610

Israel has also voted with the USA and Russia in a UN vote against condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Obviously, they are supporting Russia only because of the USA but it's still ironic how Israel repays the European countries for decades of supporting them. This country has no oaths or loyalty.

naughtboi

Its rules based order, but we make the rules on the fly.

sant2060

KFSattmann

Very easy for Merkel to support Ukraine with words now after being Bundeskanzlerin for so many years and doing everything in her power to lay the groundwork the Russian invasion of Ukraine during those years. It's not an exaggeration that without Merkel there wouldn't even be an invasion at all.

TheFuzzyFurry

geostrofico

Merkel didn't even say that Israel is following international law here, which would already be disgustingly dishonest. Instead she basically said "Sure, they're violating international law, but it's OK because they feel threatened," and that's somehow even worse.

CinemaDork

Yeah thats not how it fucking works Angela.

bongabe

I am sorry, and maybe I'll sound harsh but - no one gives a shit about international law bar the pretending for the looks of righteousness.

No one is getting into Hague, no one will get reparations, there is no justice that is not gotten by your own hands - there is a joke and it's an "International rules-based order", a charade that cracks down when first signs of incompetence and impotence show up. Be it some unpunished dictator, an on-paper peacekeepers, an N-teenth round of condemnations, a failed proposals. It is dying a slow, agonizing death, pretending to still mater, and maybe in enlightened western countries it is. But it erodes away with each statement that to the outsiders, to those not in the inner club of "important" countries sounds as hypocritical as it gets. Why should anyone play by the rules if the rules are defined on vibes?

And to prelude : BOTH Israel and Iran are awful. The Wars are Awful. And there are no wars that follow law, the moment blood sheds - they become just the wind, swaying to the whims of those whose hands are on the triggers.

ensi-en-kai

&gt;I don’t quite agree that Israel does not adhere to international law. When a country’s existence is threatened by Iran or Hamas, it’s not so easy to respond strictly according to international law. If some are allowed to declare they want to destroy the state of Israel, then Israel must have the ability to defend itself.

  
So she is basically saying that Israel doesn't have to abide by international law because its existence is threatened. 

The problem is, we can apply that logic to Palestine and Iran as well.

Iran should be allowed nuclear weapons, ICBMs even, because its existence is threatened by America. 

Hamas does not have to adhere to international law because its existence is threatened by Israel and America.

International law even allows for preemptive strikes, but similar to how self defence doesn't apply if the other guy considers buying a weapon, you can't claim a preemptive strike just because the other party has the possibility to develop a nuclear weapon.

OldWar6125

Oh please, anyone with a brain has NOT forgotten who pushed the Ukraine to give up Crimea:
Merkel 

And she didn't use gentle pushes but brute force - give Crimea up, we ain't helping you. Shush now, little lamb, the important countries are talking.

AlcoholicCocoa

The Double standards the west applies to the rest of the world is truly shameful the rules based order never really applied to western nations

barryl34

Let's conveniently forget that it is Israel that is actually sitting on nuclear weapons. Iran even offered to sign up to a nuclear free middle east treaty if Israel would relinquish its own nukes. hmmmm

GoldFuchs

**Are you ready to die to boost Nethanyau's approval rating?**

Also, Jesus Christ, maybe Merkel should just enjoy her retirement befire further ruining her reputation.

gar1848

Sad that German politicians learned the wrong lesson from WWII. There is really something broken with their duty of remembrance if what they retained was "defend Israel at all costs" rather than "war crimes and genocides are bad."

TrueRignak

Simply destroying any benefit of the doubt she may have been given following her lacklustre chancellorship. 

She manages to embody the inability of many of her generation to grasp the challenges required to navigate the 21st century.

The same woman naive enough to hold a G20 summit amidst the anarchist neighbourhoods of Hamburg. 

Her hubris will go down in the history books.

Icy_Place_5785

Merkel has no position in the German government, she is retired and during her chancellorship she did a huge amount of damage by basically dismantling the Greman army, appeasing Russia, making Germany dependent on russian gas, closing nuclear power plants, imposing austerity on Greece and letting in lots of refugees (the last two causing the far right to gain a massive momentum in Europe). Not to mention basically not doing anything to help Germany maintain a technological edge with investments in infrastructure, digital services, digital economy or emerging technologies like EVs while China was closing the gap.

She is the last person whose assessment I would care for

zimon85

How about Merkel stops preaching and looks at her backyard which is going to be full of rotten AfD Nazis soon.

Sufficient-History71

\&gt;Israel’s strikes on Iran follow international law

Even targeting residential buildings because nuclear scientists live there?

fookinruski

Neither follows international law. Also the US is about to bomb Iran ( B-2s on route with, hopefully, non-nuclear payload ); illegal warfare.

This was expected, after the West bungled the RU-UA war, that illegal warfare and war expenditure will go parabolic. Thx everyone.

KernunQc7

Once again we see Germany over compensate for the Holocaust

stormhawk427

MrHyperion_

Is Merkel ok or she needs medical help.
Its getting serious

consistent__bug

guns_cure_cancer

barfly2780

You know guys, this is exactly why non-western nations have an extreme distrust of western nations. Because their “rules based world order” only seems to ever apply the non-western nations and western nations can do whatever the fuck they want.

EU is cooked with this level of leadership.

PanzerKomadant

This is so disappointing from someone who should understand the rules. It is hypocritical  to criticise Russia but absolve Israel for essentially the same action. German politicians seem to be hidebound by their guilt for WW2 and the Holocaust. That's understandable to some extent, but it is reprehensible when a nation that wasn't involved is made to suffer.

Cathal1954

It doesn’t Tf. Both Russia and Israel justify their military campaigns through the lens of preemptive strike for national security reasons. 

Some crazy mental gymnastics there.

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