The past 48 hours have seen a burst of diplomacy by Russia regarding the Middle East crisis. On October 16th Vladimir Putin spoke to Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, and the leaders of Egypt, Iran, Syria and the Palestinian Authority. Mr Putin expressed his condolences for the murdered Israelis, but failed to denounce Hamas’s attacks. Russia’s autocrat also called for a ceasefire, and blamed the crisis on America.
But Russia has maintained friendly relations with the Iranian-backed organisation since it came to power in Gaza, believing that it might one day come in useful. Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, warmly welcomed a member of Hamas’s leadership, Khaled Meshaal, to Moscow in 2007. When Israeli forces entered Gaza in 2014 in a seven-week operation, they found themselves on the receiving end of a large number of Russian anti-tank missiles, supplied by Iran.
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