“Free Palestine” is a weapon of Russia: why the slogan “From the river to the sea” is part of the Kremlin axis.

There are slogans that sound humanitarian only until you look at how they are used, who amplifies them, and what political result they produce.

“From the river to the sea” is one of them.

For some people in the West, it is presented as a phrase of solidarity. For others, it is a street chant, a protest formula, a convenient emotional shortcut. But for Israelis, Jews, and anyone who understands the basic geography of the region, the meaning is much harder to ignore. Between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea there is the State of Israel. A slogan that imagines this space without Israel is not a call for coexistence. It is a call to erase Israel from the map.

And this is exactly where the slogan becomes useful far beyond the Middle East.

It becomes useful to Moscow.

Because the Kremlin does not need every protester in London, Paris, Copenhagen, Madrid or New York to consciously support Russia. It only needs them to repeat a political language that destroys the difference between victim and aggressor.

That is the real battlefield.

Not only Gaza. Not only Israel. Not only Ukraine.

The battlefield is moral perception.

The same mechanism used against Israel is now being prepared against Ukraine.

After attacks on Russian territory, parts of the Western media often begin to write about Russian suffering as if there is no chain of cause and effect. As if there was no full-scale invasion. As if Ukrainian cities were not destroyed by Russian missiles. As if millions of Ukrainians were not forced to live under air alerts, occupation, deportation, torture, and daily strikes.

Suddenly the question is not why Russia started the war.

The question becomes why Ukraine dares to hit back.

This is not accidental. It is a familiar propaganda mechanism: first, remove the original crime from the frame. Then focus only on the response. Then slowly present the victim as the new aggressor.

The same mechanism is used against Israel.

First, the massacre, terrorism, hostage-taking, missile attacks, and open calls for Israel’s destruction are pushed to the background. Then the focus moves almost exclusively to Israel’s military response. Then comes the familiar language: “disproportionate force,” “collective punishment,”........

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