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sparkmannThe mother of an Israeli-American woman jailed in Russia on drug charges appealed Saturday to President Reuven Rivlin, asking him not to host Vladimir Putin at his official residence when the Russian leader visits Israel later this month.
“It is inconceivable that you, the president of the state, will receive at the President’s Residence… the president of Russia, who is holding my daughter Naama as a political bargaining chip for extortion,” Yaffa Issachar wrote in an open letter published on Facebook.
“Naama, who traveled to India for a trip with her friends and was marked from the first moment as an asset for political extortion against Israel, has already gone through ten months of a nightmare that I wouldn’t wish on anyone in the world,” Yaafa Issachar said.
“I would like to inform you that it is my intention to come straight from Moscow to the entrance to the President’s Residence that same evening and block with my body the entrance of the Russian president and his delegation,” said Issachar, who has been in the Russian capital working to secure her daughter’s release.
She asked Rivlin to instruct his bodyguards not “to prevent from me my duty as a mother and citizen of the State of Israel,” saying Putin’s presence at the President’s Residence would be a “personal and national humiliation.”
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Mother of jailed backpacker: I’ll block Putin ‘with my body’ when he’s in Israel | THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Yaffa Issachar, whose daughter is being held by Moscow on drug charges, asks Rivlin not to host Russia president at official residence during upcoming trip
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“It is inconceivable that you, the president of the state, will receive at the President’s Residence… the president of Russia, who is holding my daughter Naama as a political bargaining chip for extortion,” Yaffa Issachar wrote in an open letter published on Facebook.
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“Naama, who traveled to India for a trip with her friends and was marked from the first moment as an asset for political extortion against Israel, has already gone through ten months of a nightmare that I wouldn’t wish on anyone in the world,” Yaafa Issachar said.
“I would like to inform you that it is my intention to come straight from Moscow to the entrance to the President’s Residence that same evening and block with my body the entrance of the Russian president and his delegation,” said Issachar, who has been in the Russian capital working to secure her daughter’s release.
She asked Rivlin to instruct his bodyguards not “to prevent from me my duty as a mother and citizen of the State of Israel,” saying Putin’s presence at the President’s Residence would be a “personal and national humiliation.”
Read More ›››
Mother of jailed backpacker: I’ll block Putin ‘with my body’ when he’s in Israel | THE TIMES OF ISRAEL
Yaffa Issachar, whose daughter is being held by Moscow on drug charges, asks Rivlin not to host Russia president at official residence during upcoming trip
↱www.timesofisrael.com