Israel helping Ukraine by targeting Iran, Netanyahu tells Macron
WORLD 03 February 2023 - 19:51
Israel’s covert operations against Iranian targets ultimately help other countries including Ukraine, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told French President Emmanuel Macron as he sought to bolster his image as a supporter of Kyiv.
“We operate independently against Iran at different levels, but this activity is also systematically aimed at degrading or harming Iran's capabilities against us,” Netanyahu told Israeli reporters as he briefed them after the meeting, The Jerusalem Post reports.
“We operate independently against Iran at different levels, but this activity is also systematically aimed at degrading or harming Iran's capabilities against us,” Netanyahu said.
“But of course, it also harms Iran's capabilities or reduces them in relation to other arenas,” Netanyahu said.
He underscored his concern about Russia’s growing military alliance with Iran, in which Moscow is arming Tehran and the Islamic Republic in turn is sending weapons of use against Ukraine.
Some of the weapons it produces also pose a threat to Israel, so the Jewish state accomplishes two goals in working to eliminate them on the gourd before they can be put into operation.
Netanyahu has highlighted the manner in which Israel’s targeting of Iranian weapons has a positive impact on Ukraine as he has come under pressure to show the West, particularly the United States that he is standing strong with Kyiv.
Blinken urges Israel to send Ukraine aid
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters in Jerusalem earlier this week that the Biden Administration expected Israel to assist Ukraine with “all” its humanitarian, economic and security needs.
To date, Israel has provided humanitarian and economic assistance to Ukraine, as well as publicly condemned Moscow, but it has not sent it defensive or offensive weapons fearing that a step would sever its ties with Moscow.
The Russian Foreign Ministry this week has issued veiled threats against Israel for its assistance to Ukraine, noting in particular that it would target any military systems set there by Israel.
Netanyahu’s visit to Paris comes as Iran has charged that it has been behind the explosion in its weapons factory in Isfahan. Israel has neither confined or denied the charge.
His trip marks his first foreign visit since he returned to power less than two months ago, stating that one of his primary goals was to thwart Iran’s push to become a nuclear power.
It’s a move that has been made easier by the growing public sentiment against Iran due to its military support of Iran and its execution of street protesters.
Iran was also one of the top issues on his agenda with Macron, in a meeting that Netanyahu described as “one of the best” he has had with the French leader.
“We concentrated mainly on the Iranian issue. There is a very great rapprochement between Israel and France in the way we see the Iranian threat.”
Netanyahu said that Macron also seemed willing to consider sanctioning the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The Israeli leader recalled that there had been times during his previous tenures as prime minister when he led a solitary campaign against Iran, including when speaking with Europe and the US.
Now “I found much more understanding, I must say, and a willingness to act together. I can't go into detail beyond that,” he said.
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