The Netanyahu-Zelensky Spat

It all makes Ukraine’s president look less like a statesman and more like a schemer.

AP/Efrem Lukatsky
President Zelensky, left, and Prime Minister Netanyahu at Kyiv, Ukraine, on August 19, 2019. AP/Efrem Lukatsky

For a glimpse of a certain reserve that obtains in respect of President Zelensky, even among many friends of Ukraine, feature the telephone call that Prime Minister Netanyahu placed to the Ukrainian leader over the weekend late last week. His purpose was to ask Ukraine to oppose a United Nations resolution calling for the International  Court of Justice to opine on Israel’s presence in Judea, Samaria, and Jerusalem. That measure passed the General Assembly. 

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