How does it look from Jerusalem?

Sometimes Russian Z-propaganda, in all its arrogance and stupidity, creates a clearer picture than any opposition journalist, “foreign agent,” “Banderite,” or any other enemy it likes to invent.

This time, the picture was drawn by TASS itself.

On one page about Israel and the Middle East, Russia’s state news agency placed two stories that, taken together, say more than any official statement.

In one story, published on June 10 at 15:29 and followed by another report at 16:21, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Georgy Borisenko met in Moscow with Mousa Abu Marzouk, deputy head of the Hamas political bureau. Representatives of Hamas then thanked Russia “for supporting the Palestinians.”

In another story, published on June 12 at 10:19, Russian-speaking “compatriots” in Tel Aviv unfurled a giant Russian tricolor of more than 600 square meters in honor of Russia Day. After that, according to the same Russian information stream, there were “festive celebrations with songs, round dances and traditional Russian treats — baranki and a samovar.”

This did not happen in a vacuum.

It happened after October 7.

It happened in Israel, a country where Hamas murdered, burned, raped, kidnapped children, women, elderly people and entire families. It happened while Israel is still fighting a war against the terrorist organization that carried out that massacre.

So the question is simple: how should a Russian flag look in Israel when, in the same informational frame, Moscow officially receives Hamas and Hamas publicly thanks Russia?

This is no longer just “culture.”

It is not merely a “holiday.”

It is not harmless “nostalgia.”

It is not simply a “Russian-speaking community event.”

It is the state symbol of a country that is waging war against Ukraine, building a strategic relationship with Iran, receiving Hamas in Moscow, and still trying to present itself as a fighter against terrorism.

In Tel Aviv — the Russian........

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