Edward Luce: The Big Geopolitical Beneficiary of What Is Going on in the Middle East Is Putin
Edward Luce: The Big Geopolitical Beneficiary of What Is Going on in the Middle East Is Putin

KAY: “... Senator King when he had just come back from Israel quite recently saying, look, there are parallels here between Ukraine and Israel.

The Russians are basically waiting for the West to lose interest and Hamas is basically waiting for America’s own political divisions to play out in public in such a way that it no longer becomes tenable for the White House to carry on supporting Israel.

And it’s interesting to — just to see those divisions in — I mean, Chris Van Hollen who is a supporter of Joe Biden’s, who has been very firmly on the side of the administration on very many issues, still critical of the idea that we should be giving, America should be giving arms to Israel without any kind of restrictions.

I mean, Ed, you’ve been writing about this — this idea of the kind of the the links here between Russia and Israel and the United States and how what is happening in Hamas and the impact that is — in Gaza — the impact that’s having on American domestic politics, and how this is just — you know, anytime there are divisions in American politics, it’s a win for who?

It’s a win for Moscow.”