...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...said Thursday, as his US counterpart Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
prepares to visit Israel.
Putin said Russia "will continue to give its full support to the resumption of direct dialogue between Paleostinians and Israelis", following talks with Paleostinian leader the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
in the southern Russian city of Sochi.
"The peaceful coexistence of the two states -- Paleostine and Israel -- is an indispensable condition to ensure genuine security and stability in this region," Putin said.
Abbas meanwhile said Paleostine "values Russia’s counter terrorism efforts, as well as its contribution to strengthening security and stability in the Middle East, including in Syria," Russia’s RIA Novosti state news agency reported.
After Putin’s meeting with Abbas, Russia’s defense ministry said that Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman had called his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu on Thursday.
The two ministers discussed defense cooperation between Russia and Paleostine as well as regional security issues, the ministry said in a statement.
Abbas said Thursday he welcomed "President Trump’s desire to help find a solution" to the Israel-Paleostinian conflict, according to a transcript published by official Paleostinian news agency Wafa.
"I told him that we were completely ready to cooperate with him and undertake efforts to reach a historical peace plan to end the conflict between us and the Israelis," Abbas said.
Abbas said Tuesday that Trump was expected to visit the Paleostinian territories "soon" and that he was ready to meet Israel’s prime minister as part of the US president’s peace efforts.