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Mark N. Katz: “Yet while the Russian government has adopted a 'balanced' position with regard to the Israel-Hamas conflict, a number of prominent Russian commentators have issued statements that have been highly critical of Israel and sympathetic toward the Palestinians (if not toward Hamas itself).
“While these statements do not necessarily reflect Kremlin views, it is doubtful that these commentators would make them if the Kremlin strongly objected to them. What seems to bother these commentators is the continued closeness of Israeli-American relations, as well as the possibility that the West will somehow benefit from this situation (Russia also has its ‘worst case analysts’).” Read the full article, "Why the Kremlin may be sweating the war in Israel and Gaza," on Responsible Statecraft.