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Thursday, February 1, 2018
Weekly Commentary: Russian Visits Demonstrate Talking Heads Were Wrong

Weekly Commentary: Russian Visits Demonstrate Talking Heads Were Wrong
Dr. Aaron Lerner 1 February 2018

Taka look at the list of top Russia officials now here in Israel:
- Russian Federation Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev
- Deputy Foreign Minister and Special Presidential Representative to the
Middle East Mikhail Leonidovich Bogdanov
- Deputy Justice Minister
- Deputy Internal Affairs Minister
- Russian Army Ground Forces Commander
- senior intelligence and Russian Federation Security Council officials.

And consider two of the places they will be visiting here in Jerusalem when
they aren't participating in discussions with their Israeli counterparts:
- Western Wall Tunnels
- The City of David

Two major historical sites/tourist attractions that highlight the historic
connection between the Jewish People and Jerusalem.

Two locations liberated by Israel in 1967.

Two locations whose development was opposed at various stages by the talking
heads that were convinces that the world would never accept Israeli
development of these "obstacles to peace."

Wow.

That's right.

When President Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital he was careful
to note that he wasn't about to take a position as to what the boundaries
are of the "Jerusalem" that is the capital of Israel.

Here we have top Russian officials, including the Russian's point man on the
Middle East, Deputy Foreign Minister and Special Presidential Representative
to the Middle East Mikhail Leonidovich Bogdanov, visiting these places in
liberated Jerusalem without batting an eye.

The same people who called for Israel not to develop the Western Wall
Tunnels and the City of David are today against pretty much any other
Israeli development activity in liberated Jerusalem.

They were wrong then and they are wrong now.
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