Israeli Air Force flies over Lebanese-Syrian border – first time in 3 months

The Israeli Air Force made several passes over the Lebanese-Syrian border on Sunday, Dec. 16, for the first time since the crisis with Moscow erupted in September, DEBKAfile’s military sources report. The flights passed over northern and central Lebanon, although in the past Israeli jets stayed close to the south.

The Russians are conducting an air and sea exercise opposite Syria’s west coast, for which the eastern Mediterranean was placed off-limits. Although the Israeli aircraft stayed clear of this closed area, the distances were small enough to indicate that the IDF must have cleared the flight paths with HQ at the Russian Air Base at Khmeimim near Latakia, which is managing the exercise.
This means that Israel-Russian air force liaison, suspended after the downing of a Russian IL-20, may be up and running again. Just five days ago, a senior Israeli military delegation, led by Maj. Gen. Avraham Haliva, head of the IDF Operations Directorate, spent 24 hours in Moscow in talks with high-ranking Russian officers at the defense ministry and general command. The Russians said in a short statement that the IDF delegation had briefed them on Israeli’s operation against Hizballah tunnels and discussed coordination with the Russian command in Syria. No statement came from Israel on the visit. However, the renewed Israeli flights over Lebanon indicates that some measure of understanding was reached.

The IAF’s freedom to fly over all parts of Lebanon is now an active component of the IDF’s capacity to deal with Hizballah in the event of a flare-up of hostilities in the course of Operation Northern Shield against its cross-border tunnels. With the prospects fast diminishing of UNIFIL or the Lebanese army undertaking to blow up or seal the tunnels at the Lebanese end, one of the IDF’s options may be to bomb them from the air.

Syria and Hizballah are acting to spike this option with propaganda. Syrian sources have reported that Moscow warned Israel, including the visiting generals, that Russian officers have been stationed at Syrian missile batteries and air bases and if they should come to harm, the Russians would hit back. Another tale asserts that Russian flags have been hoisted over Hizballah bases in Syria.

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60 thoughts on “Israeli Air Force flies over Lebanese-Syrian border – first time in 3 months

  • Dec 17, 2018 @ 8:45 at 8:45
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    Israel is giving too much importance to the F Russians.

    • Dec 17, 2018 @ 13:12 at 13:12
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      No, it’s actually Debka that is giving too much importance to the Russian military in Syria.

      Israel did not coordinate to get Russian permission; Israel unilaterally put its aircraft where its own national security dictates that they operate at the moment. The Russians can go pound sand.

      • Dec 17, 2018 @ 16:43 at 16:43
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        You both wrong , the Debka gives too much importance to Israeli military

        • Dec 17, 2018 @ 18:01 at 18:01
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          SHUT UP YOU FAKESTANAN. MY CAMEL FATHER TOLD ME IN A DREAM THAT THE IDF WAS THE BEST. IF HE HADN’T HAVE INSEMINATED MY PESIAN MOTHER I WOOD NOT EVEN BE HEAR.

          NOW I LIKE TO BE IN THE MIDDLE OF A PIGGIE SEX TRAIN.

        • Dec 17, 2018 @ 18:28 at 18:28
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          solomeow, You little pussy, you don’t give enough importance to your Nakba – the FAILURE of 5 genocidal Arab armies to slaughter the Jews of Israel.

          Happy Nakba!

      • Dec 17, 2018 @ 19:42 at 19:42
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        They don’t have much sand to pound, but pounding vodka and sisters are both popular national pastimes.

        • Dec 17, 2018 @ 19:50 at 19:50
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          a. Inbreeding
          b. Drug smuggling
          c. Organ trafficking

          • Dec 17, 2018 @ 21:12 at 21:12
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            d. Watching lazy-eyed Russian neanderthals crying over their collapsing wasteland as the civilized world slowly leaves them in the dust.

    • Dec 18, 2018 @ 14:55 at 14:55
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      Khazars should return to Eastern Europe.

      • Dec 18, 2018 @ 19:29 at 19:29
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        Moooohammed, prophet of Satan, Move to Eurabia. The newly built mosques in Londonistan and Paris and Berlin are waiting for you.

  • Dec 17, 2018 @ 9:07 at 9:07
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    Dissuasion bombing for the infamy of war-attack tunnels of the Lebanon state is to be done with restrain and proportionality. A maximum of 1 week bombing of Beirut , highways, and industrial facilities, for each tunnel discovered by IDF should be satisfactory for the beginning.

    But, one shall not forget the Iranian Embassy and the Mudeirej Bridge on the highway Beirut-Damascus, these are also good eligible targets.

    • Dec 17, 2018 @ 11:01 at 11:01
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      “A maximum of 1 week bombing of Beirut , highways, and industrial facilities, for each tunnel discovered by IDF should be satisfactory for the beginning.

      But, one shall not forget the Iranian Embassy and the Mudeirej Bridge on the highway Beirut-Damascus, these are also good eligible targets.

      @Yasmine,

      Wait……………….if the Israelis did any of that (even out of necessity for their own self-defense), won’t the so-called “international community” and the UN be all upset and mad at them…………then what???????

      • Dec 17, 2018 @ 21:11 at 21:11
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        UN has failed to cover the pearlharborian infamy of the Lebanon state in preparing war-attack tunnels. Of course UN has for Tunifil an Italian general! After all, aren’t macaronis miniature tunnels? Isn’t the ketchup likely enough to the Israelis blood UN was planning to exact?

        UN has sent Tunifil for filling with tunnels all Lebanon state borders, but they triple failed. They failed to denounce the years long digging of tunnels. They failed to denounce the existence of the tunnels. And they failed to condemn the tunnels and the planned Lebanon state attack. Why? Because hyenas don’t eat hyenas, and thieves do not cry thief when witnessing a theft, perhaps?

        I say there is no organization more abominable, disgusting, execrable, hateful, and offensive than UN, and it will be alleged gross fabrication to affirm other ways.

        • Dec 17, 2018 @ 21:40 at 21:40
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          Greetings to all supporters of the Palestinian cause!

          Our BDS international movement is totally against Israel’s terror actions directed against the peaceful tunnels. The Hezbollah peoples are our good friends, we shall boycott any action against them, buy your kalashnicov or bomb-vest only from Hamas and Hezbollah trusted sources.

          Allah bless Canada, the land of the good BDS mujaheddin!
          BDS power!

    • Dec 17, 2018 @ 13:00 at 13:00
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      I agree that the only way to end this crap is creating and driving a WEDGE between real Lebanese and those creating opportunity in Beirut and the combined Rev Guards/Hezy connection
      Make their presence in Lebanon so costly in terms of bombed infrastructure that they ask Iran for billions to rebuild vs. request they leave.

    • Dec 17, 2018 @ 16:44 at 16:44
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      Ha ha ha

      One bomb over Beirut and the geriatric antisemitec settlers would be running for the exits and little schoolboy settlers would be peeing their pants.

      Hizbollah will bash your faces in again. Third time this century.

      • Dec 17, 2018 @ 21:23 at 21:23
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        Weaker than Mohammeds Nakba Army,

        LOL! You’ve been watching too many Hezbola cartoons and reading too many Hezbola comic books.

        Q. How many inches of Israeli territory has Hezbola stolen from Israel????
        A. ZERO.

        Happy Nakba!

        Note that Snake Nasralla hides like SHlTller and Sadaam and HAMintheASS in spider holes.

        • Dec 17, 2018 @ 22:07 at 22:07
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          Talking about that Nasrallah boy is not important.
          The real issue is Nasrallah ashes.
          There should be no grave.

        • Dec 17, 2018 @ 23:02 at 23:02
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          On this day: 26 May 2000
          http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/26/newsid_2496000/2496423.stm

          2000: Hezbollah celebrates Israeli retreat
          The Hezbollah leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, has been greeted by tens of thousands of supporters during a victory rally to celebrate the Israeli withdrawal from South Lebanon.

          He said disputed land and prisoners still held by Israel should be returned to Lebanon – but made no reference to achieving it through combat.

          His speech followed a statement from Hezbollah – which fought to drive the Israeli army out of Lebanon – that its fighters will soon pull out of southern Lebanon, now that the Israelis have withdrawn.

          Earlier, United Nations peacekeepers equipped with armoured cars began patrolling the former Israeli-controlled zone in Lebanon.

          The UN special envoy, Terje Roed-Larsen, said they would be deployed in permanent positions up to the Israeli border after the organisation had verified full Israeli withdrawal.

          The Lebanese Government has also deployed about 600 armed police officers in the newly-evacuated area.

          But Beirut refused to send in the army saying it prefers to wait for official confirmation of Israel’s pullout.

          In the victory rally at Bint Jbeil, near the border with Israel, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah prayed to God “that the victory be fulfilled with the liberation of the whole territory and the release of all prisoners”.

          He was referring to an area known as the farms of Shebaa on Lebanon’s borders with Syria but occupied by Israel since 1967.

          “I promise you that every prisoner will soon be returned and the farms of Shebaa will return to Lebanon,” he told the crowd.

          Sheikh Nasrallah said Israel had no alternative, saying that Hezbollah “considers that all occupied Lebanese territory must be restored”.

          But the Shia Muslim leader did not speak about the consequences if Israel refrained.

          The Hezbollah leader has also called for a severe punishment of those who “collaborated” with Israel during its years of occupation.

          A total of 1,500 members of the militia have given themselves up to the authorities or to Hezbollah.

          Collaboration can carry the death sentence in Lebanon.

          • Dec 17, 2018 @ 23:42 at 23:42
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            LOL! So you CONFIRM that NOT ONE INCH of Israeli land was “won” by the two-legged pig nasrallah or his army of Satan – HezBola.

            The Golan is controlled by Israel.
            Sheba Farms is controlled by Israel.
            FOREVER!

            Happy Naba!

          • Dec 17, 2018 @ 23:48 at 23:48
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            Antisemitic land grabbers–attack, fail, retreat: story of the 21st century.

  • Dec 17, 2018 @ 10:04 at 10:04
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    How much humiliation can the IDF take? It must be brutal to be taking it up the backside day after day by a substandard fighting force.

    • Dec 17, 2018 @ 19:46 at 19:46
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      You would know, your neanderthal friends are still hundreds of miles away from reaching Kiev.

      • Dec 17, 2018 @ 20:12 at 20:12
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        Your buddy Porky Pig is every bit the democrat as AntisemiticFascistDictator NuttyYahooo!

        “Hooray for NeoNazis,” says the Debka peanut gallery!

  • Dec 17, 2018 @ 11:05 at 11:05
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    Just as in the beginning of worldwar 2, has Russia the wrong friends.

  • Dec 17, 2018 @ 11:14 at 11:14
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    “———————————-their ancestors were converts to Judaism.”

    @ “Trump is the new prophet”,

    Yes, their ancestors were indeed converts to Judaism and that happened around 3000 years ago in the land which is now called Israel. The DNA proves that European Jews originated from the Middle East and the archaeology as well as written documentation which has survived to this day clearly indicates who the rightful owners of that land are………………..the so-called “Palestinians” are descended from Arab invaders of that land during the later Muslim conquests.

  • Dec 17, 2018 @ 11:17 at 11:17
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    bibi needs to go . he gave a veto power to idf operation in syria and lebanon . he put in danger the security of israel. i remember the days WHEN MENAHEM BEGIN LEAD THE COUNTRY. HE DEFIED EVERY ONE HE DESTROYED SYRIAN ARMY IN LEBAON DESPITE ITS RUSSIAN SUPPORT . HE STROKE SADDAM HUSSEN AND DESTROYED NUKE PLANTE. HE THREATENS KOMENEY WITH A BIG STRIKE IN TEHERAN.
    BIBI YOU SHOULD GO AWAY BECAUSE HE PUT IN DANGER ISRAEL.

  • Dec 17, 2018 @ 12:56 at 12:56
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    The Russians have not changed since the time of the Czars and with their new Czar Putin he has obviously thrown in his full support to the Iranians and Hizballah who openly want to murder all the Jews in Israel and elsewhere. The proof of it is the last 2 lines: “Syrian sources have reported that Moscow warned Israel, including the visiting generals, that Russian officers have been stationed at Syrian missile batteries and air bases and if they should come to harm, the Russians would hit back. Another tale asserts that Russian flags have been hoisted over Hizballah bases in Syria.”
    There is going to be a next war and Israel will be fighting the Iranians and the Russians at the same time.

    • Dec 17, 2018 @ 15:14 at 15:14
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      Our Israeli friends will not be fighting alone

      • Dec 17, 2018 @ 20:31 at 20:31
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        You’d have plenty of support from the heart eating cannibals fleeing Syria.

        They helped you knock down Building 7, after all!

        The Saud family head choppers undoubtedly would have your backs, too, after they finish getting pummeled by a ragtag bunch of Yemenis.

    • Dec 17, 2018 @ 21:10 at 21:10
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      Thank you for your words

  • Dec 17, 2018 @ 14:39 at 14:39
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    Shia islamo-supremacist cult of genocide, death and ethnic cleansers of Christians, and occupation of Christian land in the fake state of “Lebanon” are the violaters of UN-1701.
    Let’s not forget slaughter of Syrians civilians and general jew hatred.
    Messing with the wrong jews will not fair well for these bastards and supporters.

    • Dec 17, 2018 @ 15:26 at 15:26
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      Still haven’t lost Golan and still bum schtooping Syria…hehehe

  • Dec 17, 2018 @ 15:17 at 15:17
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    Yet they rule, and Fatass Nasrallah is just letting them destroy the tunnels without lifting a finger. ?

  • Dec 17, 2018 @ 15:44 at 15:44
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    Nasrallah can’t comment without giving up his location. Every one of you “A”-rabs talk tough as shit until it comes time to fight. The only thing you moron can do is mass riot and cry when someone kicks your ass whom you start a fight with. Rats – all of you.. BTW Have a look at Egypt if you REALLY want to see what a welfare check looks like.

  • Dec 17, 2018 @ 15:49 at 15:49
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    Different time frame, different weapons, different communications. The Arabs are not blind now like they were then, cannot sneak attack. You guys, (I assume are mostly Israeli) are not reacting properly. You should be on your knees repenting and or finding a way out of Israel, because according to scripture like 2/3rds of you are going to die in an upcoming war, probably this one. I do not think that the USA will fair to well as it is so the first sigh of trouble I am vacationing iMexico.

    • Dec 17, 2018 @ 16:41 at 16:41
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      They’re hippies, living in the halcyon days on the 1960s (#RememberTheLiberty).

      Refusing to acknowledge the last two decades of defeat, failure and retreat explains why the european colonial settlers now find themselves ruled by a corrupt fascist dictator.

      • Dec 17, 2018 @ 20:44 at 20:44
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        THE FUNGUS ASSHOLUS JERKOFUS IS EATING YOUR BRAIN FROM ALL THE CAMEL PRICK JUICE YOU DRINK. QUICK GO SEE A JEWISH DOCTOR TO HELP CURE YOU BEFORE YOUR EYEBALLS FALL FROM YOUR YOUR DISEASED BRAIN!

    • Dec 17, 2018 @ 19:51 at 19:51
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      According to Lord of the Rings, Israel will be just fine. Have fun eating up your 10 year supply of emergency canned food, ‘cuz no one else will.

      • Dec 17, 2018 @ 20:20 at 20:20
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        Explains a great deal.

  • Dec 17, 2018 @ 16:49 at 16:49
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    The Zionist cockroaches are swarming lol

    They are greedily eyeing Lebanon and Syria in the hope of stealing their lands and murdering the inhabitants in a vain attempt to create Greater Israel before going on to rule the world lol.

    Crazy Talmudic physios still it is the ultimate wet dream.

    Orthodox Judaism is after all a parasitic religion due to your holiest of holiest which is the Satanic Babylon Talmud.

    Want to murder, rape little children no problem convert to Orthodox Judaism or one of the even more extreme derivatives that follow the Talmud….

    I bought myself the Encyclopaedia Judaica for Christmas and have been reading up on your filthy beliefs. Though in fairness modern Judaism like Reformed Judaism has moves away from this.

    But how many of you sicko’s in Israeli still follow the Talmud???

    • Dec 17, 2018 @ 19:59 at 19:59
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      No one on Earth actually follows the Talmud or the Torah in any version, or they’d be locked up for trying to stone blasphemous children to death. On the other hand, Christians like you have a history of enslaving black people, locking up famous scientists for saying that Earth orbits the sun, and now a whole ton of your friends scream that Earth is flat because their religion says so. Worry about flinging feces at the other monkeys in your cage before you try it on the curious Jews watching you peel bananas.

    • Dec 17, 2018 @ 20:46 at 20:46
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      SAMANTHA, YOUR INSATIABLE NEED FOR DONKEY DICK HAS POLLUTED YOUR RABID PRIVATES AND GONE TO YOUR BRAIN. A 6-MONTH DOSE OF PENICILLIN MIGHT CURE YOU. REMEMBER TO FIND A ZIONIST DOCTOR. WE ARE THE BEST!!!

      • Dec 17, 2018 @ 21:27 at 21:27
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        LOL! Jim Carrol AKBAR!!!

        • Dec 17, 2018 @ 21:41 at 21:41
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          LOVE YOU BACK MY FRIEND!

          • Dec 17, 2018 @ 22:58 at 22:58
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            If you bring your own Piggies, we can have the ultimate gangbang!

            Oink.

            My Shamootra mom (Persian wench) gangbanged lots of camels. Many, many humps for her.

            That’s how I came to be.

  • Dec 17, 2018 @ 16:49 at 16:49
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    Lose the war in Syria, trying to help your heart-gobbling mercenary buddies, and you get relegated to censor of words.

  • Dec 17, 2018 @ 16:51 at 16:51
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    They can’t even win a debate on the own webpage.

    Antisemitism has no future, scumbags.

  • Dec 17, 2018 @ 16:52 at 16:52
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    a. Words
    b. Bottle Rockets
    c. Kites
    d. Balloons
    e. Democracy

    • Dec 17, 2018 @ 17:24 at 17:24
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      free speech and a educated and informed population.

      Which would result in:

      NO AIPAC to buy off the legislator and pervert the laws
      – AIPAC registered as a foreign agent
      No Jewish controlled Media
      No Jewish controlled tech companies like Facebook / Google Youtube to control and censor social media.
      No Jewish controlled Banking System / Federal Reserve System
      – Cancel any dept owing to the Zionist Banking system / Federal Reserve System
      – Arrest and prosecute the Banksters
      No Hate Speak Laws to censor free speech
      No selectively applying of Laws
      No WARS for the ZIONCON DEEP STATE SWAMP
      ARREST ALL MEMBERS OF DEEP STATE ZIONCON SWAMP

      And of YES bring our troops home and spend the money on rebuilding America

      • Dec 17, 2018 @ 17:56 at 17:56
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        Your obsession with Jewish people is lame. Get a life.

        • Dec 17, 2018 @ 20:47 at 20:47
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          SHE CAN’T. ALL SHE WANTS IS BIG HOT SWOLLEN DONKEY DICK. WHEN SHE DOESNT GET HER 4 TIMES A DAY DOSE SHE GOES CRAZY AND RANTS ABOUT JEWS.

      • Dec 17, 2018 @ 18:03 at 18:03
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        Anglo-American Deep-State Criminals are 100% Anti-Israel. They have only ever supported Israel as a vassal half-state, on half the Jewish homeland, totally dependent on Western alliance for security, and no sovereignty in Jerusalem. Anglo-American Deep-State Criminals assaulted Israel during the Obama era, and now they are threatening to frame Israel in the Russia-gate PSYOP, unless Israel drops its alliance with Donald Trump, true friend of Israel, and destroyer of Anglo-American Deep State Criminals.

        • Dec 17, 2018 @ 21:20 at 21:20
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          Interesting

    • Dec 17, 2018 @ 20:06 at 20:06
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      It definitely ain’t option e, because none of Israel’s enemies practice it. Perhaps an option f: Mossad fears for the genitalia of children in your neighbourhood.

    • Dec 17, 2018 @ 20:17 at 20:17
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      I SAY BALOONS, BECAUSE IF THE CAMEL WHO HUMPED MY SHAMOOTRA MOMMY (PERSIAN WENCH) WOOD HAVE WORN A BALOON ON HIS SCHOLONG THERE WOULD BE NO JIM CARROL.

  • Dec 17, 2018 @ 16:55 at 16:55
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    the russian military history speaks itself . RUSSIAN HASE NEVER WON A WAR.
    RUSSIA LOST AGAINST JAPANESE, GERMAN MUHJAHEEDN AGFAN CHECHEN SYRIAN REBELS IT TOOK ALMOST 4 YEARS TO BEAT SOME SYRIANS REBELS. IT WAS HUMILIATED IN SYRIA BY TURK, US AND BY THEMSELVES BY SHOOTING DOWN THER OWN JET. SO I AM VERY ASTONISHED WHY DEBKA GIVE SO MUCH IMPORTANCE TO RUSSIA ARMY!!!!

    • Dec 17, 2018 @ 20:11 at 20:11
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      Too many Soviet migrants in Israel are still adjusting to the joys of living in a real civilization for the first time, and neanderthal Russian trolls bring lots of ad revenue whenever Debka mentions their little sewage-ridden backwater.

  • Dec 17, 2018 @ 21:27 at 21:27
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    Another tale asserts that Russian flags have been hoisted over Hizballah bases in Syria.
    Jesusofnazarethkingofthejews יהוה keeps Jerusalem for Himself. Israel rejoices in יהוה

  • Dec 18, 2018 @ 17:04 at 17:04
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    On the other hand! The Israeli’s if they were flying F-35’s as shown in the photo, could be trying to get the Russians to turn on their targeting radars and record the frequency for reverse engineering purposes.

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