“I'm speaking about defense equipment to protect Ukraine's civilian population.” We've been attacked by missiles from Iraq and rockets from Lebanon and Gaza,” Shai, a former military spokesman, told The Associated Press. “We in Israel have a lot of experience in protecting our civilian population over 30 years. “It will destroy all interstate relations between our countries,” he wrote.īut Shai doubled down on Tuesday, while stressing his view did not reflect the government's official stance. Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Telegram that providing military aid to Ukraine would be "a very reckless move” by Israel. “The time has come for Ukraine to receive military aid as well, just as the USA and NATO countries provide.” “There is no longer any doubt where Israel should stand in this bloody conflict,” Nachman Shai, Israel’s minister of diaspora affairs, wrote on Twitter. The Iranian government has denied providing Moscow with the drones, but American officials say it has been doing so since August. Iran and its proxies in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen have threatened Israel with the same delta-shaped, low-flying Shahed drones now exploding in Kyiv. The debate burst into the open on Monday, as an Israeli Cabinet minister called on the government to take Ukraine’s side. “We’re looking at it closely and thinking about how these can be used by the Iranians toward Israeli population centers,” he said.
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