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ON EVE OF BIBLICAL HOLIDAY, IN MOSCOW, PUTIN TELLS NETANYAHU, THIS IS NOT "THE FIFTH CENTURY BC" ...by Brian Schrauger
Like the setup for a volleyball slam, Putin launched an easy serve with greetings for the Jewish holiday of Purim. Netanyahu returned the volley by comparing today's would-be Persian empire to yesterday's enemy of biblical lore, Haman. With a smile on his face, that's when Putin spiked the ball. That happened "in the 5th century BC," he said. "We now live in a different world."