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Netanyahu, Putin to meet Tuesday for Syria talks
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Published: 13.05.13, 13:35
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1. Lets hope the rooskies have sold them to syria
Brett L ,   JHB RSA   (05.13.13)
Because if they have then it was a serious waste of money!!
2. access
john ,   toronto   (05.13.13)
Can't this be done from Israel.The public must have access to all documents regarding a public office.
3. A Test
Adam Neira ,   Paris, France   (05.13.13)
Prayers for Syria. All decent nations should be doing their utmost to help stabilise Syria at the moment. Thus this meeting between Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Putin is a good step. The announcement late last week by Secretary of State Kerry and Russian FM Lavrov about a planned international peace conference to address the Syria issue is also promising. (BTW, Iran said they would attend !) The test now is to see which "leaders" are sincerely interested in peacemaking in the world.
4. It's a grand scheme...
David ,   Hartford USA   (05.13.13)
Putin sells defective weaponry to Syria, takes all Assad's money, and waits for Assad's demise. Israel will find no trouble defeating the missiles, even if they do actually launch. Putin has no wish to go down in history as the man who started Armageddon. But he'll be the Nobel Prize winner if he gets Assad out of power. When the missiles start blowing up on the launch pad, or maybe even be remotely controlled from Moscow and aimed at the presidential palace, Assad will know his game is up. Or has he turned into a true bastard and decided to sell Assad weapons to curry favor with his own Islamist psychopaths? "I'll sell weapons to Assad, to be transferred to Hizbollah and Hamas to be used against Israel, but only if you Muslim nutjobs stop all terrorism in Russia." If that's the case, and we'll eventually get to the truth, then Putin is a monster and needs to be arrested by the world court. Let's see what he does.
5. Bibi and the wet hands, Kabbala interlude of warmongers
Rudolph, K. ,   Columbia, MD   (05.13.13)
Bibi to shake the wet hands of a bloodshedder, of a bloodshedder, as if the meteor wasn't enough of a sign to these "rooskiies", this Gog, this arms dealer to the world.
6. Why not treat Russia as the enemy it is?
Gunnar ,   Gothenburg, Sweden   (05.13.13)
Since it is clear that neither Russia nor China IN ANY WAY are willing to give up their support for the Syrian regime, for the Iranian regime, for the North Korean regime, and subsequently for the terrorist groups that these regimes are arming, why does Netanyahu even bother visiting them?? It must be because of those luxurious airplanes he and Sara get to travel in.
7. Bibi: bring a gun with you; if you have to then print it!
tom ,   tel aviv   (05.13.13)
You'll know what to do...The World will be kissing your feet.
8. #4
(05.13.13)
No one knows why Obama took down Gaddafi, but to do it he lied to Putin. Now it is payback time.
9. Anything to even up the playing field
ben   (05.13.13)
Go Putin! Go Assad!
10. #2: No, becuase Bibi has to justify the bed on the plane!
Dee Bee ,   Israel   (05.13.13)
Anyone who believes Putin is just plain stupid! The Tzar of Russia is so crooked he can't even lie straight in bed! In any case the Russians cannot give up on Syria because without the port south of Aleppo they have no warm water harbor for their navy. Now if Bibi wants to sign an agreement to import Caviar for Lieberman, well, that will also explain the necessity of the trip!
11. @ 4. Russian Victory
Silas ,   Dartmouth, England   (05.13.13)
I agree with your post, that alot of this is down to Putin. Basically Putin does not want the USA to have a victory - they called to Assad to give up power when the protests started 2 years ago. The US supported the rebles, and then allowed their allies Saudi & Quatar & Turkey to arm and support them. Russia has said all along that they don't like the idea of regime change (Putin fears that one day it may be done to him) And they don't like the West removing dictators when they resort to tanks to stay in power (Putin again may have to do this in Russia). So basically all Russian actions are to deney the US the victory of Assad falling. To this end they will supply him with loans, money, arms and even air defences. They know the US is in a bad possition - dithering while 82,000 are dead make America look weak, but trying to interven will place the US in another draining war like Iraq that will squader it's blood and treasure to the benift of Russia. (In case you haven't got it, Putin is not a nice man...)
12. OMG! The Saudis must regret investing so heavily in Obama...
Harry Wright ,   UK   (05.13.13)
funding his education and what not, only to find out that the only things he is capable of doing are lying, blustering, bullying, bluffing and covering up - and now, all his chickens are coming home to roost. Well, the Saudis can console themselves with the fact that their nationals are SAFE in the US. They can call the shots on internal matters but they had better fend for themselves on the international stage because Obama is way out of his league in that arena. There, he is just an apprentice. Whatever happened to that Sunni axis (Saudi Arabia, Qatar & Turkey) that Obama was making up to handle the Syrian problem? Out-maneuvered by Putin, Iran and Hizballah?
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