Netanyahu touts friendship with Putin in new billboard

[dalton99a]

https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-another-league-netanyahu-touts-friendship-with-putin-in-new-billboard/

Netanyahu touts friendship with Putin in new billboard
Targeting Israeli-Russian voters, Likud hangs massive picture of PM alongside Russian president, with the slogan ‘Netanyahu, in a different league’
By Raoul Wootliff Today, 1:51 pm


A picture taken on July 28, 2019, shows a giant election poster on the Likud party headquarters showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin shaking hands. The writing on the billboard reads "Netanyahu, in another league." (Tal Alovich)

Knowingly or not, Russia President Vladimir Putin has been recruited to the Israeli election campaign, appearing alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a large billboard Sunday visible to thousands of drivers during rush hour on central Tel Aviv’s Ayalon highway.

The poster hanging on Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party’s headquarters on the corner of King George and Ben Zion streets shows the two leaders shaking hands under the slogan “Netanyahu: In another league.”

The campaign comes as the ruling party targets Russian speaking voters, who makes up 12 percent — or some 770,000 — of the 6.3 million eligible voters in Israel, amid a rift with the Israeli-Russian Yisrael Beytenu party.

The image mirrors an almost identical billboard campaign seen across Israel during the run-up to the previous elections in April, in which Netanyahu is featured alongside the same slogan shaking the hand of US President Donald Trump. That billboard was featured Sunday on another side of the building, while a third billboard showed Netanyahu with his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi.

[elleng]

1. Somehow I doubt that lots of Israeli/Russians think cozying up to putin is a 'swell' idea;

there is some history, they 'may' recall.

[NightWatcher]

2. Putin is trying to put the Soviet Union back together to rule the World.

He's using homophobia to woo the "religious" but only as a wedge issue to get them on board.

The entire non-Soviet portion of the World needs to wake up and fight this before it's too late. Putin's already got a foothold in the U.K., US, and Middle East.

Cold War will soon turn hot.

[Iliyah]

3. Putin is a White Nationalist . . .

BiBi are you listening?

[rockfordfile]

8. yes and so is the kapo.

[empedocles]

4. Suspicious - bad guys cozying up more

[czarjak]

5. I'm guessing you haven't read the Book of Revelation, Bibi...

Right? Guess who’s going to invade The Holy Land. Look it up.

[Everyman Jackal]

6. Yes because the Jews were treated so wonderfully in Russia.

Any Russian Jew in Israel who votes for Netanyahu is an idiot.

[uponit7771]

7. wow!!!

[rockfordfile]

9. "Likud party's headquarters " A likud party member murdered Israel leader Rabin

Both are fascists.