Posted on 01/31/2020 10:35:18 AM PST by rintintin
MOSCOW — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for his speedy decision to pardon and release Israeli-American backpacker Naama Issachar, who had been held in a Russian prison for some 10 months on drug charges.
“I want to thank you in the name of the entire Israeli people for your quick decision to grant a pardon to Naama Issachar. This moves all of us and our gratitude is on behalf of all Israeli citizens, from the heart,” Netanyahu said at the beginning of their meeting in the Kremlin.
During a whirlwind visit to the snowy Russian capital on the heels of his three-day trip to Washington, Netanyahu told Putin he also wanted to discuss “regional matters” with the Russian leader.
“We conducted a number of talks with our American friends in relation to these things, and I’d like to update you on a certain development that occurred,” he said, without elaborating.
The prime minister noted that Putin was “in effect” the first foreign leader he was speaking with after the US administration’s peace deal was unveiled on Tuesday.
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Some of the things our nationals pull on foreign territory are not too well thought out.
Sure does seem some of the important world leaders are making an effort to shine a positive light on Benjamin Netanyahu......and I for one appreciate it.
Ten months is quick? It took Putin longer to release a wrongly arrested individual than the House to conduct a phony impeachment of a President. We’re officially underwater.
Israeli media have reported that the Israeli government was willing to relinquish ownership of a complex in Jerusalem - symbolic to the Russian Orthodox Church - as a goodwill gesture ahead of Issachar's release.
All that, for 9 grams of weed. Putin got exactly what he wanted. Netanyahu got a pot smoker.
Uh, oh. Wasn’t Bibi just in Washington recently? How long before Schifty accuses Trump of giving him a secret message to pass on to Vlad?
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