Posted on 04/02/2019 11:50:04 PM PDT by NorseViking
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will fly to Moscow on Thursday to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Israeli leader's office said on Tuesday.
The statement did not elaborate on the intended topics of discussion. The two leaders will meet five days before Israel's April 9 election in which the right-wing Netanyahu faces a strong challenge from a centrist candidate.
On Monday, Netanyahu told reporters he and Putin spoke by telephone about Syria, whose Russian-backed president, Bashar al-Assad, has been gaining ground in an eight-year civil war.
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Interesting....
That’s an understatement.
FWIW:
An explanation from Debka:
The removal from Damascus to Aleppo of Iran’s IRGC command HQ brings Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’ to Moscow on Thursday, April 4, for an urgent meeting with President Vladimir Putin - five days before Israel’s general election - to reset their coordination arrangements.
DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources report that the Iranians completed the transfer of their commands and military facilities, lock, stock and barrel, from Damascus to Aleppo in the second half of March. They hoped that this move would get them out of range of Israel’s serial air and missile raids, calculating that the IAF would be reluctant to risk running into the Russian S-400 and S-300 air defense batteries deployed nearby at the Khmeimim Air Base.
They were proved wrong. No sooner had the Iranian command staff moved into its new premises, when the Israeli air force on March 27, conducted one of its broadest raids hitherto on Iranian targets in Syria. Casualties of dead and injured were heavy and the devastation extensive.
According to our sources, that raid was just the opening shot. Israel has finished with Damascus as the arena for destroying Iran’s military facilities and shifted its campaign to Aleppo. However, the geography makes it incumbent on Israel to draw up fresh rules of coordination with the Russian forces posted in northern Syria. This imperative was behind the official Kremlin account of the phone conversation conducted by Netanyahu and Putin on Monday, April 1 – “pressing bilateral issues including military contacts” - which made a face-to-face meeting between the new leaders essential.
All of the above aren’t presidential issues. Might be resolved between militaries.
Now Bibi is colluding with da ruzzians? Trump is gonna get it now!
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Nah. Just politics 5 days before an election. He hosted Bolsanaro 3 days ago.
Note that Bibi has met with Putin many times in the last couple years.
Putin and Netanyahu have had a very strange frenemy relationship for years now. They’re nominally on opposite sides of the Syrian civil war, but coordinate their operations in such a way as to minimize interference with and risk to one another. They have opposite alliances and agenda in the region but still seem to like one another politically and personally: Putin’s press encourages Russian Jews in Israel to support Netanyahu, Netanyahu opposes sanctions against Russia over Crimea.
“Putin’s press encourages Russian Jews in Israel to support Netanyahu, Netanyahu opposes sanctions against Russia over Crimea.”
BINGO.
And for now we support Bibi over those light loafer morons Gantz and Lapid (watch Gantz walk, IMHO he’s gay).
This meeting gets a pass so Israel doesn’t bomb Russians in Syria and Bibi needs the Russian-Israeli vote next week.
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