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September 28th, 2017 
Awake Goy 
While Obama seems reluctant to use the full force of the United States against ISIS, Putin is more than willing to reshape the Middle East in his image.
Also, It’s not that Israel can afford to lose Europe as an ally. Despite the right wing’s demagogy, there is no “European boycott” of Israel. Europe remains Israel’s biggest trading partner and its biggest economic supporter, through numerous trade agreements and partnerships that are vital to Israeli academia, science, culture, and exports. That is not going to change.
For all the right-wing protestations that the EU is “de-legitimizing” Israel, the reality is drastically different: The Israeli right-wing has relied for years on the unwavering support for Israel among European nations to essentially do whatever it wanted in the West Bank.
Netanyahu’s symbolic threats to “cut ties” with the EU, and the even more ludicrous threats made by ministers Ayelet Shaked and Gilad Erdan to sue the EU through the World Trade Organization, are designed largely to appease the “boycott Europe” nonsense that has inexplicably gained traction in Israel in recent months, thanks to poorly-conceived publicity stunts like MK Michael Oren “labeling” EU products. Israel’s reliance on Europe is so large, in fact, that it’s hard not to see the “boycott the boycotters” sentiments as anything but comical.
Nevertheless, while still dependent on European money, Israel is increasingly turning its back on Europe. Ever since the current wave of violence began, more and more Israeli politicians and citizens advocate Putin-like policies involving brutal use of force. Politicians and ordinary citizens have taken to openly mocking European values like humanism as a burdensome folly in the fight against terrorism.
In an article about the dangerous flirtation between parts of Israel’s leadership and public and the political legacy of Putin, former MK Nitzan Horowitz wrote: “Who admires Putinism? Those whose democratic backbone is bent, who view freedom of expression and creativity as signs of laxity and atrophy.” Sadly, among Israel’s population, this group is currently experiencing rapid growth.
Thus while growing increasingly alienated from its two biggest allies – the U.S. and the EU, Israel finds itself growing closer to Russia.
This is a perilous path. Just ask the pepper farmers in the Jordan Valley, who found out for themselves that the Russians are not benevolent, but have their own interests in mind: Knowing they are their only buyers, they used this knowledge to bargain for drastically lower prices. And because Russians only like very specific kinds of vegetables, much of their best produce were left unwanted, thrown away or simply left on the side of the road.
Source Article from https://zionistreport.com/2017/09/the-putinization-of-israel-netanyahu-cozying-up-to-russia-may-cost-israel-dearly/
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