{"id":10189,"date":"2023-11-03T22:28:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T16:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/russia-backs-hamas-terrorists-calls-israel-occupying-power-that-does-not-have-right-to-self-defense\/"},"modified":"2023-11-03T22:28:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T16:58:34","slug":"russia-backs-hamas-terrorists-calls-israel-occupying-power-that-does-not-have-right-to-self-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/russia-backs-hamas-terrorists-calls-israel-occupying-power-that-does-not-have-right-to-self-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia backs Hamas terrorists, calls Israel \u2018occupying power\u2019 that \u2018does not\u2019 have right to self-defense"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Russia this week declared that Israel has no right to self-defense and labeled its would-be ally an “occupying power” in a move that undermines years of work from Jerusalem to improve its relationship with Moscow.<\/p>\n
“The only thing [the West] can muster is continued pronouncements about Israel\u2019s supposed right to self-defense. Although, as an occupying power, it does not have that power,” Russian Amb. Vasily Nebenzya said during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly session on the conflict. Nebenzya clarified that Israel can “fight terror,” but urged the country to “fight terrorists and not civilians.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nebenzya also condemned Western “hypocrisy” over Palestinian deaths and compared it to the outcry over Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, according to The Moscow Times.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“In other situations, [Western nations] call for the respect of humanitarian law, set up inquiry commissions and impose sanctions on those who use force as a last resort to stop years of violence,” Nebenzya said, but that on the “destruction in Gaza \u2026 they play mum.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
WHY DOES US ECONOMICALLY HELP NATIONS THAT WANT TO HARM THE WEST?<\/strong><\/p>\n Russian President Vladimir Putin remained muted in the days immediately following the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, which The New York Times suggested spoke “volumes” about the state of relations between the two countries.\u00a0To underscore the seeming shift in policy, Moscow hosted representatives from Hamas and Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani.\u00a0<\/p>\n