Netanyahu's visit with Putin seems to have paid off. (See 1 below.)
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Subject: Blond Joke #507 (See 2 below.)
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Our third oldest grandson, Henry Thaler, has been working for Bill Maher as a writer's assistant and after several years decided to try something else in the field of writing. He lives in Los Angeles, has a quirky, "Woody" Allen sense of humor. Very bright and truly funny.
If anyone, who reads my memos, knows of someone they can put Henry in touch with I would be forever indebted.
The Republican Party and/or The White House could truly use Henry's talents but I have no contacts at the RNC. (See 3 below.)
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This week's issue of The Weekly Standard features France's Macron and what he has accomplished in turning "sleepy" France into a Start up Nation. I discussed "Israel-Start Up Nation" several years ago and urge anyone who has not read it to do so. My friend, Avi Jorisch ,will be here in November to discuss his book about Isrsaeli innovation.
America is slipping in the ranking of start ups and it is not because we do not have capital, higher education and all the ingredients. We are not focused and therefore, the jobs and growth of tomorrow are slipping away from our fingers.
There is no reason why America should not be first in start-ups again. One of the most important things Trump could do is to set up a commission comprised of future thinkers to meet and discuss where America needs to plug holes in our leaking dam pertaining to where we need to place our creative talents as a nation.
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1) After Netanyahu visit, Russia to back off S-300 missile transfer to Syria
By REUTERS
MOSCOW - Russia is not in talks with the Syrian government about supplying advanced S-300 ground-to-air missiles and does not think they are needed, the Izvestia daily cited a top Kremlin aide as saying on Friday, in an apparent U-turn by Moscow.
The comments, by Vladimir Kozhin, an aide to President Vladimir Putin who oversees Russian military assistance to other countries, follow a visit to Moscow by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week, who has been lobbying Putin hard not to transfer the missiles.
Russia last month hinted it would supply the weapons to Assad, over Israeli objections, after Western military strikes on Syria. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the strikes had removed any moral obligation Russia had to withhold the missiles and Russia's Kommersant daily cited unnamed military sources as saying deliveries might begin imminently.
But Kozhin's comments, made so soon after Netanyahu's Moscow talks with Putin, suggest the Israeli leader's lobbying efforts have, for the time being, paid off.
"For now, we're not talking about any deliveries of new modern (air defense) systems," Izvestia cited Kozhin as saying when asked about the possibility of supplying Syria with S-300s.
The Syrian military already had "everything it needed," Kozhin added.
Israel has made repeated efforts to persuade Moscow not to sell the S-300s to Syria, as it fears this would hinder its aerial capabilities against arms shipments to Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah. Israel has carried out scores of air strikes against suspected shipments.
On Thursday, Israel said it had attacked nearly all of Iran's military infrastructure in Syria after Iranian forces fired rockets at Israeli-held territory. S-300s could have significantly complicated the Israeli strikes.
The missile system, originally developed by the Soviet military, but since modernized and available in several versions with significantly different capabilities, fires missiles from trucks and is designed to shoot down military aircraft and short and medium-range ballistic missiles.
Though since superseded by the more modern S-400 system, the S-300s are still regarded as highly potent and outstrip anything the Syrian government currently has.
Syria currently relies on a mixture of less advanced Russian-made anti-aircraft systems to defend its air space.
Russian media on Friday were actively circulating a video released by the Israeli military which showed an Israeli missile destroying one such system -- a Russian-made Pantsir S-1 air defense battery -- on Thursday in Syria.
Russia last month hinted it would supply the weapons to Assad, over Israeli objections, after Western military strikes on Syria. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the strikes had removed any moral obligation Russia had to withhold the missiles and Russia's Kommersant daily cited unnamed military sources as saying deliveries might begin imminently.
But Kozhin's comments, made so soon after Netanyahu's Moscow talks with Putin, suggest the Israeli leader's lobbying efforts have, for the time being, paid off.
"For now, we're not talking about any deliveries of new modern (air defense) systems," Izvestia cited Kozhin as saying when asked about the possibility of supplying Syria with S-300s.
The Syrian military already had "everything it needed," Kozhin added.
Israel has made repeated efforts to persuade Moscow not to sell the S-300s to Syria, as it fears this would hinder its aerial capabilities against arms shipments to Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah. Israel has carried out scores of air strikes against suspected shipments.
On Thursday, Israel said it had attacked nearly all of Iran's military infrastructure in Syria after Iranian forces fired rockets at Israeli-held territory. S-300s could have significantly complicated the Israeli strikes.
The missile system, originally developed by the Soviet military, but since modernized and available in several versions with significantly different capabilities, fires missiles from trucks and is designed to shoot down military aircraft and short and medium-range ballistic missiles.
Though since superseded by the more modern S-400 system, the S-300s are still regarded as highly potent and outstrip anything the Syrian government currently has.
Syria currently relies on a mixture of less advanced Russian-made anti-aircraft systems to defend its air space.
Russian media on Friday were actively circulating a video released by the Israeli military which showed an Israeli missile destroying one such system -- a Russian-made Pantsir S-1 air defense battery -- on Thursday in Syria.
Rare E.U. backing of Israeli strike against Iran in Syria https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Rare-EU-backing-of-Israeli-strike-against-Iran-in-Syria-556160
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3. I'm a 6-foot tall, 175-pound blonde woman with a black
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3) Henry Thaler - Bio
I'm a graduate of Georgetown and was most recently Writers’ Assistant on Real
Time with Bill Maher. My experience, at Maher as well as at The Colbert Report,
The NBC Page Program, and Capitol Hill bridges the worlds of entertainment
and politics, reflecting my deep passion for both. I'm interested in writing for
film and TV but also interested in political communications and strategy.
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