Russia and the war of extermination on Gaza. The situation in the context of the conflict with the West

Afrasianet - Since  the start of the Western-backed Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, Russian positions have emerged against Israeli crimes, urging an end to the war of extermination and siege, which led to the deterioration of Moscow's relations with the occupation, in exchange for its growth with the forces of the axis of resistance.

Since the start of the Israeli war, supported by the West and the United States, on the Gaza Strip, Russian positions have emerged against Israeli crimes, urging an end to the war of extermination and siege, which President Vladimir Putin likened to the siege of the city of Leningrad by Nazi Germany during World War II, when more than a million people died as a result of bombing and famine.

In return for the support shown by the West for the occupation in international forums, even if it tries to evade its responsibilities in timid propaganda statements, Russia insists on condemning Israel, and behind it the United States and the Atlantic West, and demanding that the Palestinians be granted their rights, especially in the Security Council, which has become the most prominent arena for confrontations between the two sides.

From the outset, Moscow has been keen to emphasize the illegality of the war on the Gaza Strip, while calling for a complete ceasefire, accompanied by the provision of aid to the besieged enclave.

Russia's view of the war was not limited to that, but Moscow's representative to the UN Security Council, Vassily Nebenzia, explicitly accused Israel of being an occupying "state" that has no right to defend itself.

While Moscow stressed that Israel has no right to "defend itself", it stressed, through its Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, that the "Al-Aqsa flood" did not come from a vacuum, thus confronting Western propaganda, which claims that what the resistance did on October 7 is "an aggression that pushed Israel to respond."

In the face of this reality, the  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace  confirmed that Russia leads at the United Nations in condemning Israeli military actions, while relations between Israel and Russia are deteriorating, reaching their lowest levels since the fall of the Soviet Union.

The deterioration in Russian-Israeli  relations reached a head following the visit of a Hamas delegation to Moscow, with talk of Russia among Israeli security officials matching their talk of Israel's existential enemies, Iran and Hezbollah, according to the institute.

That visit, led by the head of the movement's international relations office, Musa Abu Marzouk, where Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov met at the headquarters of the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow, prompted the occupation to summon the Russian ambassador to it, with the aim of informing him  of Israel's protest.

While Israel accused Russia of "supporting terrorism," the latter insisted that "its position is unchanged," rejecting totally unacceptable attempts to distort its work on humanitarian missions.

 Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, attacked Russia for its rapprochement with Hamas, calling Moscow one of the only places where Hamas is "received on a red carpet."

Beyond the accusation of "supporting terrorism," Whitman, a member of Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, threatened Moscow, vowing to "pay a high price" for its support for the Palestinian resistance and Hamas.

In contrast to the deterioration in Israeli-Russian relations, against the backdrop of the ongoing war on Gaza, Moscow's relations with the resistance forces in the region have witnessed a remarkable growth, as the axis of resistance, given its hostility to Israel, is a natural ally of Russia, which confronts the United States, supporting Israel.

Moscow has deep and close relations with Tehran, which leads the axis of resistance, and today is working to build no less important relations with other parties to the axis, in Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen, according to the American  magazine "Foreign Affairs", which described the resistance forces as "the new dangerous friends of Russia."

His operations gave Russia the opportunity to weaken the United States and its allies, and Russia seized this opportunity, intensifying after October 7 its diplomatic support for Hamas and Ansar Allah.

Russian support for the axis of resistance was not limited to the diplomatic aspect, but also withdrew to the practical level, according to the magazine, as it provided technical and logistical assistance. In this context, she spoke of  "worrying" signs that Russia would assist Hezbollah in any comprehensive confrontation with Israel.

With regard to Yemen, whose armed forces continue to carry out operations against ships associated with the occupation in the Arabian Sea and the Red Sea (Mr. Abdul Malik al-Houthi announced  that their passage through the Indian Ocean and the Cape of Good Hope was recently prohibited ), Moscow was keen to stress that these operations are due to the Israeli massacre supported by Washington, thus supporting Sana'a's assertion regarding the implementation of operations in support of Gaza.

In Syria, Russia has intensified electronic jamming from the Hmeimim base, while its pilots have resumed air patrols along the Golan disengagement line, Foreign Affairs reported, impeding any Israeli aggression.

In Iraq, Russia is creating conditions to replace the United States "as a security partner in Iraq, in anticipation of the possibility that the United States will reduce its military presence there," according to the Center for War Studies.

Russian Ambassador to Iraq Elbrus Kotrashev has met with senior political and military officials to discuss security cooperation since late January. Kotrashev met with Iraqi cleric and politician Ammar al-Hakim on January 31, Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces chief Faleh al-Fayyad on February 1, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani on February 5, and Asaib Ahl al-Haq secretary-general Qais al-Khazali on February 20.

In light of Israel's position on the war in Ukraine, and in the face of Israel's reaction to the events of the war on the basis of the general Western position against Russia, the war of extermination that Israel continues in the Gaza Strip came to start with clear American permission and direct participation in the plans, in addition to supporting military support. Do all these developments lead Russia to treat Israel as part of the Western system and a tool to ensure its hegemony in the region?