Russian President Vladimir Putin is a very “eccentric” and “diverse” dictator who had a pretty good working relationship with Israel until quite recently, says The Australian’s Greg Sheridan.
“The current Prime Minister of Israel Yair Lapid has criticised Russia’s shocking, unjustified, absolutely disgusting invasion of Ukraine,” he told Sky News
host Andrew Bolt.“And so he has now lashed back by not only being unhappy with Israel but being unhappy with the Russian Jews who had stayed there all this time.”
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