By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org
May 11, 2026
President Vladimir Putin declared that Russia and Israel make "a true common family; I can say this without exaggeration. Almost 2 million Russian speakers live in Israel. We consider Israel a Russian-speaking country...Without any exaggeration, I can say with pride that probably there has never been such a high level of relations between Russia and Israel, if, of course, we don't go back to the very first months or maybe the first couple of years of the state of Israel.