The capable and competent President Volodymyr Zelensky recently visited several Middle Eastern countries where he signed defense agreements with Qatar and Saudi Arabia, exchanging Ukrainian drone expertise for air defence missiles. He also met with the equally capable King Abdullah II of Jordan.

For several years, President Zelensky has been personally avoiding the repugnant Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu-- an ICC-indicted wanted war criminal like Russia President Vladimir Putin-- to prevent Netanyahu from getting a photo opportunity with him and therefore a propaganda win for ethnic cleansing. Zelensky can't demand the ICC prosecute one war criminal, Vladimir Putin, while meeting another, Benjamin Netanyahu.

Israel has been attacking Syria and occupying southern Lebanon, in complete contravention of international law and decency. France recently provided the Lebanese Army with 39 armored vehicles for use in maintaining "territorial integrity," but has done little else to help their former League of Nations mandate against brutal Israeli aggression. Source: France Not Helping People of Lebanon Enough Against Israel

Syria President Ahmed al-Sharaa appears to maintain balanced relations with Moscow whose air force used to attack him during the 14-year civil war which led to the ouster of Bashar al-Assad and his subsequent exile to Russia.

In January, President al-Sharaa met President Vladimir Putin in Moscow and so far he has not asked Russia to withdraw from its military bases on Syrian soil. Moscow Summit