Escobar: Russia's Neutrality Ballet On Israel-Palestine Escobar: Russia’s Neutrality Ballet On Israel-Palestine Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Cradle, Photo Credit: The Cradle Is it possible that the philo-Semitic Russian President Vladimir Putin is slowly but surely re-evaluating his geopolitical assessment of Israel? To call this the key riddle in Moscow’s corridors of power is …