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Al Jazeera
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Mansur Mirovalev

‘Not pro-Israeli’: Decoding Putin’s muted response to Hamas attacks

In 2020, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow [File: Maxim Shemetov/Pool via Reuters]

Kyiv, Ukraine – “I want to thank you, my friend, for what you have done,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin about four years ago.

His words followed Moscow’s transfer to Tel Aviv of the remains of Zachary Baumel, an Israeli serviceman who had been missing in action since 1982, the time of the first Israeli-Lebanese war.

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