{"id":36304,"date":"2023-02-06T13:44:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T02:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/?p=36304"},"modified":"2023-02-06T13:45:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T02:45:12","slug":"west-blocked-russia-ukraine-peace-process-former-israeli-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/west-blocked-russia-ukraine-peace-process-former-israeli-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"West \u2018blocked\u2019 Russia-Ukraine peace process \u2013 former Israeli PM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Both Moscow and Kiev appeared to have been ready for a ceasefire, Naftali Bennett says<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

RT.com<\/a> | 5 Feb, 2023 15:06<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FILE PHOTO: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu (C) gives a thank you speech during the peace talks between delegations from Russia and Ukraine at Dolmabahce Presidential Office in Istanbul, Turkiye on March 29, 2022. \u00a9\u00a0 Cem Ozdel \/ Anadolu Agency via Getty Images<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Peace might\u2019ve been agreed between Russia and Ukraine shortly after the start of the conflict, but Kiev\u2019s Western backers blocked the negotiations between the two neighbors, former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who mediated those contacts, has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bennet, who gave an almost five-hour-long video interview to Israel\u2019s Channel 12 on Saturday, claimed that his efforts as a middleman came close to succeeding as both Moscow and Kiev appeared to be ready to make concessions and agree to a truce.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It didn\u2019t happen because \u201cI think there was a legitimate decision by the West to keep striking [Russian President Vladimir] Putin\u2026 I mean the more aggressive approach,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked by the host if the US and its allies \u201cblocked\u201d<\/em> the peace process between Moscow and Kiev, the former PM replied: \u201cBasically, yes. They blocked it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI claim there was a good chance of reaching a ceasefire. But I\u2019m not claiming it was the right thing,\u201d<\/em> he clarified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Both Moscow and Kiev appeared to have been ready for a ceasefire, Naftali Bennett says RT.com | 5 Feb, 2023 15:06 Peace might\u2019ve been agreed between Russia and Ukraine shortly after the start of the conflict, but Kiev\u2019s Western backers blocked the negotiations between the two neighbors, former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who mediated… Read More »West \u2018blocked\u2019 Russia-Ukraine peace process \u2013 former Israeli PM<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,115,102,34,7,97,27,4479,517,684],"tags":[3003,8916,94,226,148,318,35,1690,5914,392,1116,8917,1499,3319,63,8919,2944,270,10,7238,45,37,664,1725,4059,8918,1460,2670,6187,6082,515,6013,8642],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/west-blocked2.jpg?fit=540%2C304&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36306,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36304\/revisions\/36306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}