Bangladesh, March 3 -- Joining the US, Israel voted against a UN motion condemning Russia, this being the first time the country voted with Moscow and against Kyiv since 2022. This interesting development, is not so significant in itself (Israel and the US votes were subdued and the motion is largely symbolic anyway), but it does mark an interesting shift in Israeli-American relations

One may recall that Israel had been struggling to maintain a certain pragmatic neutrality with regards to the conflict in Ukraine. Back in June 2023, Israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in an interview, explained why his country blocked the transfer of Iron Dome batteries to Ukraine: “weve expressed our sympathy [to Ukraine, but] there is a lim...