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Putin on release of Evan Gershkovich: ‘I believe an agreement can be reached’

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In an interview by conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson, Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich had engaged in espionage, but a deal could potentially be reached for his release. The Jewish reporter has been detained...
IMAGE CAPTION:U.S. Envoy Amos Hochstein, Feb. 9, 2021. Credit: U.S. Embassy in Lebanon.

US still wants Israel-Saudi normalization, top envoy says

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Washington still hopes Israel and Saudi Arabia will normalize relations, despite the ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza, a top Biden administration official said on Thursday. "I think that not every road is a straight...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi. Credit: Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO.

Netanyahu to Putin: We ‘won’t stop until Hamas is destroyed’

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday that Israel intends to eliminate the Hamas terrorist group in Gaza. "The prime minister made it clear that Israel had been attacked by brutal and...
Russian President Vladimir Putin during a joint press conference with Moldovan President Igor Dodon, on Jan. 17, 2017. Credit: Russian Presidential Press and Information Office via Wikimedia Commons.

‘Shifting Russia-Ukraine dynamics unlikely to affect Israel’

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The ostensible coup launched by Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin last month has led to debate over whether he exposed a vulnerability in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s bulwark. But despite speculation of Putin’s imminent...

Putin’s ‘To Do’ list

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Western leaders have long misunderstood Vladimir Putin. In 2001, U.S. President George W. Bush “looked the man in the eye” and “found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy.” Not exactly. In 2015, President Barack Obama...
Then-Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett holds a press conference at the Knesset, announcing he will not be running in the next election, June 29, 2022. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Former Israeli PM: Putin said he would not kill Zelenskyy

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Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who worked briefly as a mediator at the beginning of Russia’s war with Ukraine, says that President Vladimir Putin assured him he would not have his Ukrainian counterpart...

White House ‘deeply disappointed’ by Palestinian pivot toward Russia

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The U.S. administration has criticized Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas for seeking to involve Russia in the peace process with Israel, Axios reported on Saturday. On Thursday, Abbas told Russian President Vladmir Putin during a meeting on...
Russian President Vladimir Putin negotiates with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Ukrainian wheat, July 18, 2022. Credit: 42nd Street in Manhattan/Shutterstock.

Mr. Putin goes to Tehran

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Despite spending five months baiting Ukraine’s leaders as “neo-Nazis,” among them the country’s Jewish President Volodymyr Zelensky, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin didn’t bat an eyelid as he embraced a genuine Nazi sympathizer and Holocaust...
Author Mikhal Dekel and her book. Credit: Courtesy.

How do Putin and Zelensky get the Holocaust so wrong?

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t’s a piece of the Holocaust that even scholars misunderstand, or neglect altogether. And it’s a story unknown even to the descendants of a quarter-million Holocaust survivors. The United Nations Holocaust Outreach Programme hosted author...
Russian President Vladimir Putin with Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov being awarded the Order of Service to the Fatherland, 1st class, at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 21, 2015. Credit: Kremlin Presidential Press and Information Office via Wikimedia Commons.

The apology that Russia won’t make

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Did Russian President Vladimir Putin really apologize to Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett for the atrocious remarks on the Holocaust uttered by his Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov? There is no way of knowing for sure....