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Trump Administration "Insisted" Israel Vote Against Ukraine at UN

(Jewish Insider) Lahav Harkov - The Trump administration pressured Israel to vote against a UN resolution on Monday affirming Ukraine's territorial integrity and condemning Russia's invasion of the country. "There was a lot of pressure from the U.S., they really insisted," an Israeli official told Jewish Insider on Tuesday. "It came at all levels, at the UN, in Washington and in Israel." The vote, the first time Israel voted against Ukraine and with Russia since the beginning of the war, "wasn't easy for us.... We preferred to avoid this situation. We had no choice but to take a side." The official said that Israel "could have abstained, but I think because we asked for a lot from [the Trump administration] in recent weeks and days, the decision was to go all the way with them." Jerusalem declared its support for Kyiv in the first days of the war and sent humanitarian aid, including the first field hospital in Ukraine. However, Israel drew criticism from Ukraine in the early months of the war for not sending military aid. Israel maintained that it could not be more active in backing Kyiv because Jerusalem needed to communicate with Moscow about its presence in Syria and to keep an open channel to the Jewish community in Russia. Ukraine has not voted with Israel once in the last decade on UN resolutions targeting the Jewish state. It voted against Israel 75% of the time, abstaining the rest of the time, according to UN Watch.
2025-02-27 00:00:00
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