- February 23, 2025
- 12:21 am
- World News
“In Putin’s worldview, Jews are a quiet, strange people: boys with violins or comedians, like Zelensky, oddballs with beards. But they are not presidents, not stormtroopers, not fighters.”
On February 21, 2024, well-known Israeli military expert Yigal Levin expressed his opinion about Putin’s personal hatred toward Ukrainian President Zelensky, analyzing Trump’s interview. Levin emphasized that the relationship between these two leaders goes beyond political conflict and has personal, irrational motives.
The expert pointed out that Putin, being an antisemite, cannot bear the fact that a Jewish president from Ukraine is leading the country against his aggressive policies:
“Trump in an interview with Brian Kilmeade (Fox News) revealed that Putin does not just hate Zelensky, but hates him with all his soul.
Interestingly, when he said this, he changed his tone from his typical aggressive presidential voice, lowered his voice, and with an elderly sadness said to Kilmeade: ‘He hates him so much… You, my friend, are a lucky man, you don’t hate anyone like that.’
By the way, this all ties into the irrational motives in this war — including personal animosity.
In fact, what I keep repeating: Putin has a fierce hatred for Zelensky, including because of his deep-seated antisemitism. It’s not by chance that he has repeatedly emphasized that Zelensky is Jewish but, as he says, leads ‘Ukrainian Nazis’ (whatever that means).
In Putin’s worldview, Jews are a quiet, strange people: boys with violins or comedians, like Zelensky, oddballs with beards.
But they are not presidents, not stormtroopers, not fighters.
No, maybe in some faraway, tiny Israel, they are fighters, but not in his ‘palaces’. He considers the entire post-Soviet world his palaces. His collapse, I remind you, by his own words, was the greatest catastrophe of the last century.
And here, some Jewish kid from Kryvyi Rih doesn’t obey him — Putin. And the state under his leadership has ground up more than half of all Soviet weapon supplies and destroyed hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
And this jerk continues to disobey and even demands rights. We won’t accept this, we’ll do it this way, here we disagree.
It’s good that Trump said it out loud. Well, and now it’s clear why he wants to replace Zelensky — he really sees him as an obstacle to the deal and freezing the conflict.
Trump understands that the Russians are fine with Putin, and he’s not going anywhere, he’ll be in power for years. But Zelensky is the leader of a democratic country, and you can pressure him to force this irritant of Putin to disappear.”
Understanding the antagonisms between Putin and Zelensky is important for Israelis, who may see parallels in the struggle for independence and protection of their national identity.
Ukrainians, like Jews, face threats to the destruction of their identity, and the fight for freedom and security has become a central theme for both Ukraine and Israel.
Trump’s statements confirm the importance of Israel and Ukraine as allies in resisting aggressive regimes like Russia. It is essential for the international community to realize how personal motives and antisemitism influence strategic decisions.
