[FI-P] AW RE: [jplo-olpj] Former Israeli PM Bennett Says US ‘Blocked’ His Attempts at a Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal

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JPLO �:  It is clear here that this war in Ukraine-Russia reveals the contradiction between Sovereignty and Self-Determination, as rights. This is because Sovereignty is the right of a State, it is Self-Determination which is the right of a People. That is to say, including the Self-Determination of a People who are a Nation without a State. Such is the case with both the Donetsk and the Lugansk People’s Autonomous Republics. Likewise, Self-Determination for the Jewish People-Nation is a right, but not when it infringes on the very same Right of the Palestinian People-Nation. The hold of Zionism still on a core of support that is determinant, is not so much on financing but rather based on the failure of the Jewish solidarity campaign to provide a response to the claim that Zionism is the civil rights movement of the Jewish People. To counter such a claim by dismissing the concept of the Jewish People, as if Jewish people don’t count, is deeply ingrained Antisemitism. This is even found in the 19th Century Marxist paradigm. To counter the Zionist claim and so defeat Zionism as a base of support, there must be a Jewish civil rights movement that is not Zionist. And also Anti-Zionist to be coherent. While Jewish thinkers have become Anti-Zionist by necessity, there is now a developing awareness of the necessary role of the Jewish Bund, in forming a Jewish revolution against both Zionism and Antisemitism – by necessity. This is what happened to form the Berlin Jewish Antifa Bund Chapter. 

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            Another conclusion that follows from this report here, it that this war is not about Ukrainian Sovereignty but rather Ideology. This ideology is what we are calling Americanism. This social Ideology is composed of both, elements from the Anglo-Saxon political culture and as well as the German-American heartland of the USA confederation.  This is the ideology of what was called Manifest Destiny to prevail in South American and Canada-Québec. Americanism has become a World Ideology of hegemonism and a World Order that remains outside of Internal Law and corresponds to the USA State Department and the CIA. This USA position is the same as that of President Truman who kept out of the war until the oncoming defeat of the Nazi State machine by the Red Army. The Truman Doctrine was to support the USSR to weaken Germany and to support the Nazi war to weaken the USSR. This currently is the same strategy.

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ps: It is astonishing to have read that one may consider my right to freedom of expression in this Jewish media is being abused by my postings and writings, which are labelled rubbish as if a Jewish position does not count. Why. It is as if we were engaged in the practice of denouncing the ‘particular’, as opposed to the class position. This is the definition of reductionism as a methodology. A simplification to absurdity. 

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Jennifer Loewenstein <sarinj111 at gmail.com>



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Excerpts: [U]ltimately, the Western leaders opposed Bennet’s efforts. “I’ll say this in the broad sense. I think there was a legitimate decision by the West to keep striking Putin and not [negotiate],” Bennett said. �When asked if the Western powers “blocked” the mediation efforts, Bennet said, “Basically, yes. They blocked it, and I thought they were wrong.” …

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Later in April, � <https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/nato-allies-want-longer-ukraine-war-to-weaken-moscow-turkey-173158> Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said �there were some NATO countries that wanted to prolong the war in Ukraine. “After the talks in Istanbul, we did not think that the war would take this long … But, following the NATO foreign ministers’ meeting, it was the impression that… there are those within the NATO member states that want the war to continue, let the war continue and Russia gets weaker. They don’t care much about the situation in Ukraine,” Cavusoglu said.

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http://www.defenddemocracy.press/former-israeli-pm-bennett-says-us-blocked-his-attempts-at-a-russia-ukraine-peace-deal/

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Former Israeli PM Bennett Says US ‘Blocked’ His Attempts at a Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal

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February 6, 2023

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Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett �said in an interview posted to his YouTube channel on Saturday <https://youtu.be/qK9tLDeWBzs?t=10774>  �that the US and its Western allies “blocked” his efforts of mediating between Russia and Ukraine to bring an end to the war in its early days.

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On March 4, 2022, Bennett traveled to Russia to meet with President Vladimir Putin. In the interview, he detailed his mediation at the time between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, which he said he coordinated with the US, France, Germany, and the UK.

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Bennett said that both sides agreed to major concessions during his mediation effort. For the Russian side, he said they dropped “denazification” as a requirement for a ceasefire. Bennett defined “denazification” as the removal of Zelensky. During his meeting in Moscow with Putin, Bennett said the Russian leader guaranteed that he wouldn’t try to kill Zelensky.

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The other concession Russia made, according to Bennett, is that it wouldn’t seek the disarmament of Ukraine. For the Ukrainian side, Zelensky “renounced” that he would seek NATO membership, which Bennett said was the “reason” for Russia’s invasion.

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Reports at the time reflect Bennet’s comments and said Russia and Ukraine were softening their positions. Citing Israeli officials, � <https://www.axios.com/2022/03/08/israel-russia-ukraine-ceasefire-critical-point> Axios �reported on March 8 �that Putin’s “proposal is difficult for Zelensky to accept but not as extreme as they anticipated. They said the proposal doesn’t include regime change in Kyiv and allows Ukraine to keep its sovereignty.”

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Discussing how Western leaders felt about his mediation efforts, Bennett said then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson took an “aggressive line” while French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz were more “pragmatic.” Bennett said President Biden adopted “both” positions.

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But ultimately, the Western leaders opposed Bennet’s efforts. “I’ll say this in the broad sense. I think there was a legitimate decision by the West to keep striking Putin and not [negotiate],” Bennett said. �When asked if the Western powers “blocked” the mediation efforts, Bennet said, “Basically, yes. They blocked it, and I thought they were wrong.”

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Explaining his decision to mediate, Bennett said that it was in Israel’s national interest not to pick a side in the war, citing Israel’s frequent airstrikes in Syria. Bennett said Russia has S-300 air defenses in Syria and that if “they press the button, Israeli pilots will fall.”

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Negotiations between Russia and Ukraine didn’t stop with Bennett’s efforts. Later in March, Russian and Ukrainian officials met in Istanbul, Turkey, and followed up with virtual consultations. According to the account of �former US officials speaking to <https://news.antiwar.com/2022/08/31/report-russia-ukraine-tentatively-agreed-on-peace-deal-in-april/>  �Foreign Affairs, the two sides agreed on the framework for a tentative deal. Russian officials, �including Putin <https://news.antiwar.com/2022/10/28/putin-blames-west-for-killing-ukraine-peace-deal-in-march/> , have said publicly that a deal was close following the Istanbul talks.

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But the negotiations ultimately failed after more Western pressure. Boris Johnson visited Kyiv in April 2022, urging Zelensky not to negotiate with Russia. According to a report from � <https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/05/5/7344206/> Ukrainska Pravda, �he said even if Ukraine was ready to sign a deal with Russia, Kyiv’s Western backers were not.

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Later in April, �Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said <https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/nato-allies-want-longer-ukraine-war-to-weaken-moscow-turkey-173158>  �there were some NATO countries that wanted to prolong the war in Ukraine. “After the talks in Istanbul, we did not think that the war would take this long … But, following the NATO foreign ministers’ meeting, it was the impression that… there are those within the NATO member states that want the war to continue, let the war continue and Russia gets weaker. They don’t care much about the situation in Ukraine,” Cavusoglu said.

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A few days after Cavusoglu’s comments, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin admitted that one of the US’s goals in supporting Ukraine <https://news.antiwar.com/2022/04/25/after-kyiv-visit-lloyd-austin-says-us-goal-is-for-russia-to-be-weakened/>  �is to see Russia “weakened.”

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