Israel paying price on global stage for lack of support for Zelensky, ministers reported to lament

4 March 2022, 8:36 pm

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Prime Minister Naftali Bennett leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on December 5, 2021. (Emil Salman/Pool/Flash90)

Channel 12 reports that cabinet ministers are lamenting that Israel is paying a price in the international community for not aligning closely enough with Ukraine.

Israeli sources tell the network that Israel is playing on borrowed time before it’ll have to come out more forcefully against Russia.

“If things calm down in the next few days and are headed to dialogue, Israel will maintain its current approach… of humanitarian support for Ukraine, declarative condemnations of the Russian invasion and no sanctions,” an unnamed government source tells the network. “But if the situation continues to escalate, and Putin deepens the invasion, and the victims and killing mount, Israel will be compelled to join the Western effort to impose sanctions.”