Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will try to weigh in on the looming historic meeting between the U.S. President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to be held in Helsinki, Finland on July 16th by visiting Moscow. Prime Minister Netanyahu would be visiting Russia next week to meet Mr. Putin and garner support for Israel in the Middle East peace process. This is the first time President Trump and Putin would travel to meet each other. This will be the third such meeting between the two, with the past ones were on the sidelines of other meetings like the G20 in Germany.
President Trump and Putin are expected to discuss a range of issues, but the most important one will be a grand peace agreement in the Middle East. President Trump wants to push his peace agreement proposal that would see a lasting peace between Israel and its Middle East neighbors, especially the Palestinians with Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. President Trump would need the support of President Putin who is the closest nuclear-armed ally of both Iran and Syria.
Prime Minister Netanyahu would press upon President Putin of the importance to reduce Iranian threat looming over his country. Recently, after Netanyahu heated up the Syria situation by several bombing mission against Damascus over Iranian presence in its soil, President Putin and the Prime Minister reached an agreement to reduce the presence of Iranian troops and militia in close proximity to the Israeli border.
