By: Partito Comunista dei Lavoratori

In the whirlwind of world relations, it is good to keep all pieces together. Even the seemingly small, but not meaningless ones.

Netanyahu’s new criminal plan is at the center of the international scene, on par with the announced meeting between Trump and Putin on the war in Ukraine. The two issues are formally distinct, and have their own specific characteristics. But does that mean they are devoid of possible points of contact?

The daily newspaper La Repubblica (Aug. 8) provides an interesting piece of information in this regard, confirmed by Axios: Netanyahu “reportedly has already discussed [the Gaza occupation plan] with the U.S. administration and also with Russian President Vladimir Putin, with whom, according to a statement from the prime minister’s office, the premier spoke earlier this week.”

So this is official information, communicated by the criminal head of the Zionist state, and deliberately made public by him. It is a fact. It means that Netanyahu seeks for accomplices in all directions. First, of course, with the US administration, his great boss. But also with Putin, and this will come as a surprise to some. Not to us.

After its privileged relationship with US imperialism, Israel has long cultivated its own relationship with Russian imperialism. As we have already pointed out, there is an implicit understanding between Putin and Netanyahu, evidenced by facts: on Feb. 24, 2025 in the UN Israel voted together with Russia and the U.S. against condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine; Putin for his part has been very careful in the past two years not to oppose Israel’s genocidal war in Palestine; he has provided no aid to Iran when Netanyahu bombed it, and has on the contrary lavished himself as a possible guarantor of Iranian nuclear disarmament, as a guarantee to the U.S. and Israel.

Now we see another step of cynical imperialist diplomacy. Netanyahu seeks cover, and in any case non-belligerence, for his new military occupation of Gaza. Putin is willing to offer it to him, and reflexively to offer it to U.S. imperialism, if the U.S. in return will give satisfaction to Russian imperialism’s annexationist ambitions in Ukraine. Netanyahu may put in the case a good word, in his own interest.

We do not make predictions. We note the facts and interpret them.

Certainly those who see Putin’s Russia as the front line of historical progress will be increasingly subjected to shock. Meditate, people, meditate.