The brief conversation between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky became a genuine media sensation, since the leaders of two countries locked in existential conflicts had not met in three years. The very fact of this absence of contact looks strange, all the more so against reports that the Israeli prime minister’s office had rejected the Ukrainian side’s proposal for a bilateral meeting. But to speak seriously — had it not been for the funeral of American senator Lindsey Graham, who was ready to help both Ukraine and Israel, there would have been no proposal for a meeting, and........

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