After Nasrallah’s bragging today (Thursday), “Because Hezbollah has precision weapons, the IDF will be surprised in the next campaign.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded by saying: It comes from the same person who said after 2006 that if he had known what Israel’s reaction would be to the abduction of our three soldiers, he would have considered twice whether to do so.
So today I suggest he consider not twice, but twenty times, because if he confronts us, he will get a crush on him that he can not even imagine.
As for our relations with Russia – I spoke with President Putin on the eve of Yom Kippur, just before the holiday. In my name and on behalf of the citizens of Israel, I expressed my regret over the deaths of 15 members of a Russian air crew whose plane was shot down by Syrian fire. I told him that the root of the problem was Iran’s attempt to use Syrian territory for attacks against Israel and to arm our enemies like Hezbollah.
I told him that we have the right to self-defense, and yet it is very important to preserve security coordination between Israel and Russia, so I decided to send the commander of the Air Force, Major General Amikam Nurkin, to Moscow, basically for a dual purpose. One, to continue to protect our citizens, and on the other hand to preserve the cooperation between the two countries. “