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Israeli Prime Minister to visit Ukraine for the first time in 20 years: what to expect from a historic visit

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit Ukraine on 18-20 on August. Over the past 20 years, this will be the first official visit of the representative of the Israeli government to Kiev. Writes about this with the BBC.

Netanyahu’s plans to visit Ukraine instantly generated a wave of comments in the media. Indeed, this meeting will take place against the backdrop of the aggravation of the situation in the Middle East and also in the midst of an extremely intense election campaign in Israel, which may well become decisive in the political career of the Israeli Prime Minister.

"Score 13:0"

The first thing the media in Israel pays attention to is that “Kyiv has been out of the list of visits of the Israeli Prime Minister” for two decades.

Journalist Shimon Briman noted: “If we look at the number of Netanyahu’s visits to Moscow and Kiev, the score is 13:0, that is, 13 visits to Russia to meet with Putin in the last four years and zero visits to Ukraine in the last 20. Once Bibi (as Mr. Netanyahu is called in Israel) was in Kiev in the late 90s and he met with the President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma. Since then, four presidents have changed in Ukraine.”

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According to Mr. Briman, the impetus for the visit of the Israeli Prime Minister to Kyiv was the election of “a new president - so young and handsome, of Jewish origin, who, as we know, sympathizes with Israel.”

“One of the main reasons is the desire to balance the obvious bias towards Moscow,” he emphasized. “Also, the visit to Ukraine is aimed at meeting the president personally.”

Without Groisman

It is striking that in the plan of the visit there is no meeting between the Israeli Prime Minister and his Ukrainian counterpart Vladimir Groysman.

Israeli media note that “Ukraine is the only country, besides Israel, where both the president and prime minister are Jews.”

Obviously, Mr. Netanyahu, known as a hard-liner in negotiations with the Palestinians, has not forgotten the Ukrainian delegation’s vote in support of UN resolution 2016 of the year, condemning the construction of Jewish settlements on the West Bank.

Then Netanyahu was so furious that he personally ordered the cancellation of Vladimir Groysman’s official visit to Jerusalem several hours before it began, accusing Ukraine of “anti-Israel” behavior.

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His to his to his

And yet, most media associate Netanyahu’s two-day visit to Ukraine with early parliamentary elections to be held in Israel on 17 on September 2019.

For the first time in history, its residents will vote for the second time this year due to the inability of the Likud party, which is headed by the Israeli prime minister, to form a coalition and government after the April elections.

And this was prevented by a small but stubborn political force, Our Home Israel (NDI), which is also called the “party of Soviet immigrants.” It is the votes of immigrants from the former USSR that can become decisive during the September elections. And that is why both Netanyahu and the leader of the research institute, Avigdor Lieberman, are waging a fierce fight for them.

Jewish agency Sohnut recently released immigration statistics for Israel in the first six months of 2019. It turns out that Ukraine remains the second largest supplier of returnees, after Russia. From January to July this year, more than 3000 Ukrainian citizens went there for permanent residence.

Now more than 200 immigrants from Ukraine live in Israel. Therefore, Netanyahu's priority is to show that he is committed to the problems of immigrants from Ukraine. This, according to the media, is the “political value of Netanyahu’s visit” to Kyiv.

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Is Netanyahu a mediator?

Amid reports of this visit, both Israel and Ukraine began to hear rumors about Benjamin Netanyahu's possible mediation mission in the conflict between Kiev and Moscow.

The basis for such talk of rumors was a somewhat free interpretation of the Israeli prime minister’s answers to the question of a journalist who came from Ukraine about whether Mr. Netanyahu could join the process given his good relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The prime minister said that he had already received similar proposals from countries in Africa and Latin America, but Israel’s own problems and fears of not living up to expectations forced him to refuse such proposals. “But if you asked, I’ll think about the opportunity again,” he said.

“From the point of view of international law, Israel remains an occupier of the Golan Heights and Palestinian territories. Given this fact, it is difficult to imagine that Netanyahu will suddenly begin to harshly lobby for the de-occupation of Crimea or an option beneficial for Ukraine to end the war in Donbass,” Ukrainian media note.

“The most important thing is that Israel is interested in maintaining acceptable relations with the Kremlin, since it is on these relations that, say, the ability of Israeli troops to calmly bomb Iranian special forces in Syria depends,” the media write.

“It is naive to hope that Netanyahu will take the side of Ukraine, having finally quarreled with Putin and causing damage to the national interests of his own country,” I think the Ukrainian publications.

Ukrainian political scientist Olesya Yakhno is also skeptical about assumptions about the mediation efforts of the Israeli prime minister. In an interview with Israeli radio, she explained: “You should not exaggerate the capabilities of any intermediary, no matter who offers their services. If there are force majeure contradictions on both sides, then this is not a matter for mediators. Nobody believes this,” she emphasized.

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