Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Black Sea resort city of Sochi that Israel is willing to act to prevent Iran from consolidating its military presence in Syria. The meeting between both leaders lasted for three hours.
"Most of the discussion addressed Iran's attempt to gain a foothold in Syria in places where the Islamic State has been defeated and is leaving," Netanyahu said after the meeting.
«The victory over the Islamic State is welcome. Iran's entry is not welcome, it endangers us and, in my opinion, it endangers the region and the world," Netanyahu added.
Netanyahu stressed that “I spoke with President Putin very clearly about our positions on this issue and about the fact that this is unacceptable to us.”
During a press conference given to Israeli journalists after the meeting, Netanyahu said he told Putin that Israel will act if its “red lines” are crossed.
“We will act when necessary in accordance with our red lines,” Netanyahu stressed. “In the past, we have done it without asking permission; But we have advanced what our policy is.”
According to analysts, Iran is trying to forge a corridor through Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, where the pro-Iranian Shiite Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah operates.
The last time Netanyahu met with Putin in Moscow was in March; but since then both have frequently spoken.
Who has benefited the most from the "appearance" of DAESH/ISIS? …. the answer is easy.
These are conspiracy theories, friend Caesar... DO YOU KNOW WHY THE STATE OF ISRAEL EXISTS... WELL, WHY TURKEY ENTERED INTO WAR NEXT TO GERMANY IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR... IF I HAD REMAINED NEUTRAL OH I WOULD HAVE ENTERED WAR NEXT TO THE SIDE FROM ENGLAND AND FRANCE…..
THE TURKISH EMPIRE WOULD HAVE BEEN LEFT INTACT…..ISRAEL WOULD BE THE TURKISH PROVINCE OF PALESTINE….THEY WOULD NEVER OPEN THE BALFOUR DECLARATION….AND THE JEWS OF PALESTINE WOULD BE A SMALL MINORITY WITHIN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE…..
AND BECAUSE TURKEY ENTERED THE WAR SIDE OF GERMANY......because two German cruisers appeared before the Straits of the Dardanelles...THE GOEBEN AND THE BRESLAU...which, fleeing from the English fleet, asked permission to enter neutral Turkish waters... THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT WAS AWARE THAT THIS COULD PROVOKE THE WAR WITH ENGLAND AND DID NOT WANT TO LET THEM ENTER…..
SO THE GERMAN AMBASSADOR IN CONSTANTINOPLE WENT TO SEE THE TURKISH WAR MINISTER...THE GERMANOPHILE ENVER PACHA AND BEGGED HIM TO LET THE TWO CRUISE SHIPS PASS...WITHOUT EVEN CONSULTING HIS COLLEAGUES HE PICKED UP THE PHONE TO THE GERMAN AMBASSADOR AND ORDERED THEY WILL LET THE BOATS PASS….
AND WHEN THE COMMANDER OF THE DARDANELLI COASTAL BATTERIES ASKED HIM WHAT WOULD DO IF THE ENGLISH SHIPS FOLLOWED THEM AND ALSO TRIED TO CROSS THE DARDANELLI... ENVER ANSWERED HIM... THEY OPENED FIRE ON THEM...
WITH THE TWO GERMAN CRUISERS OFF CONSTANTINOPLE, ENVER PACHA'S POSITION IN FAVOR OF ENTERING WAR WITH GERMANY WAS STRENGTHENED...according to international law, the two German ships had to leave Turkish waters within 72 hours and if the English fleet left, the it would sink...
once again the helpful Enver Pacha took the initiative……HE BOUGHT THE TWO GERMAN SHIPS……WITH CREW INCLUDED…WHICH NOW BECAME TURKISH…..once again without consulting his terrified colleagues who were dragging them into a war with England that they did not want….
AND THEN HE GAVE THE FINAL STRENGTH WHEN THE TWO GERMAN SHIPS...NOW TURKISH...BOMBED THE RUSSIAN PORT OF ODESSA...ONCE AGAIN WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT...AND WITH WHICH RUSSIA, ENGLAND AND FRANCE DECLARED WAR ON TURKEY……..AND THE REST OF THE HISTORY IS KNOWN..
Applying his conspiracy theory…..it could be said that Enver Pacha….the German ambassador and especially the captains of the Goeben and the Breslau….were Zionist agents who caused Turkey to enter the war on the wrong side of the war, to cause its dismemberment and one day have a Jewish state in Eretz Israel.
Well, here we no longer have the bibi from the cheap drugstore to which he so often succumbs... but rather the statesman bibi... and if I criticize the first one, I support the second one... I suppose I have spoken clearly to him. putin…….and that in the future he does not open……ANY REGRETTABLE INCIDENT WITH THE RUSSIANS…..
Of course, Israel must act in its own interests and I suppose it has a wide variety of options and measures to block the way for the Iranians......the problem is that I don't see how it can prevent the Iranians. Hezbollah and Assad get your runner…….
If Israel bombs Assad's troops supported by the... RUSSIANS... who are advancing on the Euphrates Valley, it will be accused of helping the Islamic State... and this on the Syrian side... on the Araki side... the Iraqi army……supported by Iran and by…..USA…..
AND AT THE END THE LIQUIDATION OF THE ISLAMIC STATE MEANS THAT ITS TERRITORY WILL BE OCCUPIED…….BY THE IRAKINS AND THEIR PRO-IRANIAN ALLIES AND…..BY THE TROOPS OF ASSAD AND THEIR PRO-IRANIAN ALLIES….AND THE FAMOUS CORRIDOR WILL ALREADY BE A FACT …..
Israel can respond with……MASSIVE BOMBING….AT THE RISK OF PROVOKING A WAR WITH HEZBOLLAH……ONCE THE CORRIDOR EXISTS…..TO PREVENT THE IRANIANS FROM SENDING TROOPS AND SUPPLIERS TOWARDS SYRIA AND LEBANON…..BUT WHAT IS SAYING… …PREVENT THE RUNNER FROM ESTABLISHING….
ISRAEL CANNOT PREVENT THIS... BECAUSE IDF WILL NOT BE ABLE TO GO AND MUCH LESS STAY THERE... ONLY THE AMERICANS CAN DO THIS WITH THEIR KURDISH AND SUNNITE ALLIES... AND IT APPEARS AT THE MOMENT THEY HAVE NO INTENTION TO DO IT... GO TO FRIEND TRUMP.
GOOD NEWS BOYS…….IT SEEMS THAT THE KURDS WITH AMERICAN SUPPORT HAVE STARTED AN OFFENSIVE IN THE EUPHRATES VALLEY IN THE DIRECTION OF DEIR EL ZOR…..PLEASE FOLLOW THEIR PROGRESS IN THE COMING DAYS…..LET'S KNOCK ON WOOD.
This should be seen as a great opportunity.
They will attack without having to go there, and if in the process Hesbolla attacks too and we clean the area for another few years. And we leave the Russians as guarantors of peace.
If you live in Israel I hope you have a good shelter near your sweet home......because Hezbollah already has 100.000 rockets right now, enough to bomb any point in Israel with 600 rockets a day......NOT EVERYTHING IS AS EASY AS SEEMS.
Red lines are those that when crossed, it is too late
ISRAEL has an "invisible and latent" ally against Iran: SAUDI-ARABIA.... It must discuss the issue in depth...
OF COURSE ISRAEL HAS ALLIES IN THE AREA... COVERED THAT YES BUT ALLIES IN THE END OF ACCOUNT... NOT ONLY SAUDI ARABIA. ALSO THE GULF EMIRATES. EGYPT AND JORDAN... despite the embassy fight... BUT THIS IT IS NOT ENOUGH…..the truth is that it bothers me that I know I have to be so pessimistic…..but if the Americans do not do their part…..I see it as crude, friend Sancho.
Just because Hezbollah has 100.000 rockets does not mean Israel has to sit back, that would be extremely dangerous.
Of course not... but neither should we embark on a confrontation that would be devastating for Israel... IF IT CAN BE AVOID. OF COURSE THIS IS.
Pure brutes, war will take us to the stone age if it awakens.
Regarding the comments of “Uno de Sefarad”: very interesting and illustrative (especially related to how Turkey was dragged into the First World War against England/France/Russia by the Germanophile Enver Pacha), but I would like to observe that When he says that only the Americans with their Kurdish and Sunni allies could prevent the establishment of the (very dangerous for Israel) Iranian “corridor”, I understand that this is not so, just as the Tzahal has its limitations in operating against Hezbolla/Assad/Iran The Americans also have them, especially considering what kind of “allies” they have: the “moderate” Sunnis (who are not ISIS) are generally quite weak troops (not to say faint-hearted), with whom it is very difficult to define anything. militarily, and as for the Kurds, although they are a brave people, they also have a very difficult time, and are fighting for their own survival... because of which they can do little about it – in short, what happens, “One of Sefarad", is very simple (and regrettable): and it is that Israel lives in a very complicated "neighborhood", full of towns in which authoritarianism and violence, ignorance and backwardness, as well as intolerant religious fanaticism predominate. …and that is the misfortune of Israel, with which it has to learn to live.. or is it going to move to some corner of the European Alps, or to Canada? I fear that this so-called “Iranian corridor” will inevitably exist, so Israel will have to overcome that danger, as it has overcome so many other dangers in the past. It is the harsh reality. Shabbat Shalom for everyone!
You are right, Ernesto...THE PROBLEM IS THE NEIGHBORHOOD...and I agree regarding the bands of Sunni Arabs supported by the USA and the Saudis...but the Kurds are something else...they have managed to create an independent state...DE FACTO ….in the north of Iraq and now they are creating another one in Syria….but they need American protection so as not to be overwhelmed by their neighbors…..
We must not rule out that one day Turkey will sink into chaos and then a great Kurdistan will be reborn…..it is a town of 30 million people submerged under the artificial states of iral.syria.iran and turkey…..two of These have already fallen…..when the Turkish token falls…we will have a new map of the region much more favorable to Israel….
unlike the Jews...the Kurds have always been in this region...they are an Indo-European people descended from the ancient Medes...the Assyrian Empire destroyed the kingdom of Israel and the Medes in turn destroyed the Assyrian Empire...well Maybe in the future Israel can return the favor.
time to time, DAESH/ISIS is a false flag operation, main partner Tehran.
The data is what it is.
How to enter and occupy the north of Iraq and Syria, creating a motive and nothing more logical than some bad bad guys (mercenaries with a monthly salary of about 1000 to 2000 euros). attacking left and right
who finances them, weapons, vehicles and above all media technology.
What does the IRGC do from the beginning with generals at the helm in Mossul? and in Aleppo?, tourist visits?
Now we enter the second phase, ISIS is no longer useful, and they will be annihilated, a phase of creating military infrastructure (missiles) in Syria plus the one already existing in Lebanon. Don't you know where they plan to attack?
A masterful explanation, thanks Uno de Sefarad.
all raba……trina…..muaaaaa.a brother's kiss.
Refraining from commenting on the erudite comments, the sui generis "glancing" greeting Netanyahu Vs Putin is striking: One looking to the east and the other to the west...