“Firstly, the violence is disproportionate. Yes, Hamas committed atrocities on October 7th that should be condemned but Israel has killed at least 30,000 Gazans,” said Jeremy Kuzmarov, an author and the managing editor of Covert Action magazine joined Sputnik’s The Final Countdown. “So, the scale of atrocities is obviously much higher on the Israeli side, and that's what even people who supported Israel's right to self-defense have been now speaking out against because they say Israel's response is disproportionate.”

“The horrific bloodshed and suffering of these Gazan and Palestinian populations doesn't really strike the consciousness of most Israelis,” Kuzmarov suggested. “I mean, there is a small peace movement in Israel, and that may be true of the Jewish community in North America.”

“This is an indication that Russia wants to exercise a global role, particularly in response to what it perceives as NATO and American encroachments on its areas of vital interest,” said Petro, a professor of political science at the University of Rhode Island, who responded to the development on Sputnik’s The Critical Hour program. “As Putin said recently – I'm paraphrasing – the more you do it to us, the more we're going to do it to you.”

“I think congressmen and people who comment in major media outlets are not going to want to make that equation, ‘look at what we are doing, therefore, we understand why they would be doing the same thing to us in order to establish parity and mutual respect,’” he argued. “I don't think that's how they're going to respond because that's not how they think. They think in terms of America's, frankly, God-given right to be the global hegemon.”