"Yep, he's still got this"..

[DevonRex]

34. Iran said that, too. And they supply Syria with weapons, as well.

The thing is, it's clear that Assad is no friend of Israel. He's allied with Russia and Iran. Russia supplies both Syria and Iran with weapons. And both those countries threaten Israel. So, Russia is no friend of Israel. It's no coincidence that Putin is using Neo-Nazis to beat up LGBTs in Russia. He is a deadly bigot.

Now, I have an an article for you to read. It seems unrelated, but it's not.
http://www.out.com/news-opinion/2013/08/28/nikolai-alexeyev-kremlin-new-pocket-gay

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"So why, you may ask, am I not surprised by Alexeyev’s outrageous reversal? Because I remember the Anti-Zionist Committee of the Soviet Republic.

In the 1970s and 1980s, no one in Russia was talking about gay people. The scapegoats then were the Jews, who were demonized by government propaganda campaigns (under the guise of “anti-Zionism”) and faced widespread discrimination. Russian Jews who wanted to escape this treatment by emigrating were forbidden to do so, and by the early 1980s these “Refuseniks” had become a major problem for Russia’s international relations.

So in 1983, a desperate Russia tried some public-relations trickery. The Department of Propaganda set up the Anti-Zionist Committee and recruited or pressured various prominent Soviet Jews — soldiers, writers, artists, scientists — to join it. To decline meant repercussions. The idea was to show that even the Jews themselves agreed with the Kremlin’s smears. Happily, the effort failed; neither Jews within Russia nor the international community were fooled by the Kremlin’s “pocket Jews,” and the AZSCP collapsed into irrelevance.

If “gays are the new Jews” in Russia, as many people have said, then Nikolai Alexeyev is the new Anti-Zionist Committee. Russia is desperate again: The upcoming Sochi Olympics are important to Putin’s sense of his standing in the world, and the international campaign against Russian homophobia is staining them more every day. This campaign is working, and Russia knows it. What better way to slow this movement’s momentum — and to confuse and discourage those in the West who have been working for it — than for its most visible advocate to minimize its importance and dismiss it as a Western, anti-Russian plot?"
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