MESOP MIDEAST WATCH :  Our Oligarch!

Jewish institutions have accepted hundreds of millions of dollars from Putin confidante Roman Abramovich. Will Russia’s invasion of Ukraine force a reckoning? DAVID KLION –  JEWISH CURRENTS   4.3.2022

In the first 48 hours of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Roman Abramovich, the 55-year-old close confidante of Russian President Vladimir Putin, boarded his personal Boeing jet in Monaco

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MESOP MIDEAST WATCH: ‘We are close to a nuclear deal,’ US State Department spokesman says

In call with IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi, PM Bennett raises issue of undeclared nuclear material found in Iran and emphasizes Israel’s expectation the UN nuclear agency to act professionally and impartially.

ISRAEEL HAYOM – 3-04-2022

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THEO VAN GOGH SPECIAL: US Ambassador Throws Israel Under the Russian Bus

By  David Israel – March 3, 2022      TIMES OF ISRAEL /U.S. Embassy Jerusalem

US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides at his favorite wall, December 4, 2021.

US Ambassador to Jerusalem Tom Nides was trying his best to get Israel deeper in trouble with its neighbor to the north, Vladimir Putin,

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MESOP MIDEAST WATCH: ONLY ISRAEL CAN FLY WITHOUT PROBLEMS TO RUSSIA / SPECIAL CONDITIONS

Israeli Lawmakers Convene at 1 A.M. to Allow Airline to Keep Flying to Moscow

El Al’s was notified that, due to sanctions imposed on Russia, aircraft flying the Tel Aviv-Moscow route would no longer be insured ■ At 1 A.M., three lawmakers approve $2 billion government guarantee

Avi Bar-Eli HAARETZ  – Mar. 3, 2022

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MESOP MIDEAST WATCH: The Beginning of the End for Putin?

Dictatorships Look Stable—Until They Aren’t

By Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Erica Frantz FOREIGN AFFAIRS – March 2, 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine has been a clarifying moment.

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MESOP MIDEAST WATCH: IMPORTANT GERMAN THINK TANK CALLS ISRAEL APARTHEID STATE / SWP BERLIN

2.3.2022 – Amnesty International is claiming that Israel is engaged in apartheid against the Palestinians. How should this accusation be classified and what are the consequences for the German government? A SWP Comment by Muriel Asseburg

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MESOP MIDEAST INTEL : “Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had aspirations to become the world’s most cryptocurrency-friendly country”

Ukraine war is being crowdfunded through cryptocurrencies, experts say

MARCH 2, 2022  JOSEPH FITSANAKIS  THE WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA and Ukraine is being crowdfunded with the use of cryptocurrencies, making it history’s first major conflict to occur in the era of cryptocurrencies,

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MESOP MIDEAST WATCH: Israel torn over ties with Russian oligarchs

Formulating its policy on the Ukraine crisis, Israel must take into account its coordination with Russia in Syria, its special relations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, its super important alliance with the United States and its large Russian-Ukraine-born population.

Ben Caspit AL MONITOR – March 1, 2022 —

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MESOP MIDEAST WATCH: ERDOGAN BEST MILITARY FRIEND OF UKRAINE!?

Ukraine’s Turkish drones put in spotlight by Russian war – Since the conflict began there has been a focus on the fate of Ukraine’s two dozen Bayraktar drones.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN  JERUSALEM POST – MARCH 1, 2022

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MESOP MIDEAST WATCH: What If Russia Loses?

Noah Rothman COMMENTARY MAGAZINE (1.3.2022)

Earlier this month, as the Russian military bore down on Ukraine, Foreign Affairs published an influential article asking what was at the time an imponderably terrible question: “What if Russia Wins?”

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