Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a September 2015 meeting in Moscow. Photo: www.kremlin.ru.
Algemeiner: Netanyahu and Putin to Hold Syria Talks, Amid Iranian Threat
JNS.org – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in the Russian resort city of Sochi to discuss the situation in the Middle East.
The issue of Iranian forces attempting to establish a permanent military presence in Syria — right on Israel’s northern border — is reportedly high on the agenda for the upcoming meeting.
Iran’s activity makes “an open channel of communication between Israel and Russia even more important than it was some years ago,” Professor Eyal Zisser, a senior research fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, told JNS.org.
Putin and Netanyahu have held five other bilateral meetings during the past two years to discuss regional issues — and to help maintain a protocol that prevents friction between the Israeli and Russian air forces when they operate over Syrian airspace.
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