Edited sentence: A senior Israeli official said that Israel's absence from the United Nations General Assembly vote about the territorial integrity of Ukraine was viewed around the world as an extremely irregular measure, a departure from a long-standing Israeli policy of voting with the United States in the UN.Brief note on neutrality:.On April 13, 2014, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz suggests in an unconfirmed report that unnamed officials in Washington are not entirely satisfied with Jerusalem's "neutrality" regarding Crimea's reunification with Russia