Saturday 2 November 2013

6,000 tentera NATO memegang salah satu daripada latihan pasca-Perang Dingin terbesar berhampiran sempadan Rusia . . .

Reuters/Stoyan Nenov (think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

SitiWanMahani - Poland dan negara-negara Baltik akan menjadi tuan rumah permai-nan strategik pakatan perang terbesar pertahanan telah diadakan 10 tahun. Pasukan Response NATO akan mengamalkan mempertahankan Baltik dari penceroboh asing tidak dikenali.

Latihan ‘Steadfast Jazz’ exercise, pelancaran pada hari Sabtu, mengumpulkan kira-kira 6,000 tentera dari semua ahli-ahli NATO serta negara-negara bukan ahli - Finland, Sweden dan Ukraine. Kira-kira separuh daripada mereka akan mengambil bahagian dalam latihan senaman secara langsung, yang akan melibatkan berpuluh-puluh perisai, kapal terbang dan kapal laut. Separuh lagi kakitangan adalah kakitangan ibu pejabat, yang akan men-gambil bahagian dalam perintah dan kawalan latihan.

Permainan perang seminggu direka “untuk memastikan bahawa kuasa cepat- reaksi kita, Pasukan Response NATO (NRF), bersedia untuk mempertahankan mana-mana sekutu, menggunakan mana-mana dan berhadapan dengan sebarang ancaman,” kata Setiausaha Agung NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

Ahli Eropah Timur NATO telah memohon untuk menjadi tuan rumah latihan pakatan besar-besaran selama bertahun-tahun, dan ‘Steadfast Jazz’ exercise’ adalah yang terbesar sejak 2006. Senario satu permainan melibatkan negara asing yang tidak dikenali menye-rang Estonia yang banyak pertikaian wilayah, dan persekutuan menggerakkan tenaga cepat- tindak balas untuk menangkis penyerang.

Walaupun nama kuasa menyerang tidak dinyatakan, geografi dan politik global meninggalkan sedikit keraguan. Untuk beberapa tahun terdapat kebimbangan yang semakin meningkat dalam 3 Baltic negeri lebih ancaman dilihat dari Rusia, yang menurut beberapa alarmists, boleh bergerak tenteranya dan menduduki rantau ini, yang digunakan untuk menjadi sebahagian daripada Soviet Union, dalam masa beberapa hari atau jam. Gerudi besar sebahagiannya bertujuan untuk meyakinkan ahli-ahli NATO letih bahawa perikatan bersedia untuk melindungi mereka.

“Rusia sebagai sebuah negara dalam tempoh 5 tahun yang lalu telah meningkat ketegasan dalam Baltic,” menteri pertahanan Latvia, Artis Pabriks, memberitahu Reuters. “Steadfast Jazz’ exercise’ adalah penting bagi kami kerana ini adalah latihan yang pertama di mana kita benar-benar melatih untuk mempertahankan wilayah kami.”

Puncak terbaru kebimbangan di Baltic datang pada September semasa latihan Zapad tahunan bersama tentera yang dipegang oleh Rusia dan Belarus. Sebelum latihan, bebe-rapa media di Baltik mendakwa latihan mereka untuk serangan yang berpotensi.

Rusia dan NATO, rakan-rakan di beberapa kawasan seperti memerangi keganasan, mempunyai pertikaian yang tidak dapat mereka diselesaikan. Boleh dikatakan yang paling menyakitkan adalah rancangan persekutuan itu untuk menggunakan sistem peluru ber-pandu anti- balistik Amerika di Eropah Timur. Moscow melihat rancangan itu sebagai satu ancaman kepada keselamatan negara, kerana ia boleh menjejaskan pencegahan nuklear Rusia.

Walaupun tahun usaha untuk mencari kompromi, kebimbangan Rusia ke atas perisai ABM belum ditangani. Dalam langkah anti-peluru berpandu terbaru, Amerika Syarikat dan Romania minggu ini telah mula menyusun semula pangkalan tentera di negara Eropah timur, yang akan menjadi tuan rumah kepada beberapa elemen sistem.

Tentera langkah membinanya Rusia terbaru ialah penempatan yang dirancang perta-hanan bateri S-300 udara tambahan di Belarus. Kedua-dua negara mempunyai bersama bersepadu strategik sistem pertahanan udara menjaga sempadan mereka.

Ketegangan, bagaimanapun, adalah jauh dari permusuhan Perang Dingin. Wakil NATO menghadiri gerudi Zapad, manakala Rusia menghantar pemerhati untuk menjalankan ‘Steadfast Jazz’ exercise.

6,000 NATO troops hold one of largest post-Cold War drills 
near Russia's borders . . .

Poland and the Baltic states are hosting the largest strategic war games the defense alliance has held in ten years. The NATO Response Force will practice defending the Baltics from an unidentified foreign invader.

The ‘Steadfast Jazz’ exercise, launching on Saturday, gathers some 6,000 troops from all NATO members as well as non-member states - Finland, Sweden and Ukraine. Around half of them will participate in live exercise training, which will involve dozens of armor, aircraft and naval vehicles. The other half of the personnel are headquarters staff, who will take part in command and control drills.

The week-long war games are designed “to make sure that our rapid-reaction force, the NATO Response Force (NRF), is ready to defend any ally, deploy anywhere and deal with any threat,” said NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

Eastern European members of NATO have been seeking to host large-scale alliance drills for years, and ‘Steadfast Jazz’ is the largest since 2006. The scenario of the games involve an unidentified foreign nation invading Estonia over a territorial dispute, and the alliance deploying its rapid-response force to fend off the aggressor.

While the name of the invading force is not stated, geography and global politics leave little doubt. For several years there was a rising concern in the three Baltic states over a perceived threat from Russia, which, according to some alarmists, could move its troops and occupy the region, which used to be part of the Soviet Union, in a matter of days or even hours. The big drill is partially meant to reassure the weary NATO members that the alliance is ready to protect them.

"Russia as a country in the last five years has been increasing its assertiveness in the Baltic," Latvian defense minister, Artis Pabriks, told Reuters. "'Steadfast Jazz' is important to us as these are the first exercises where we really train to defend our territory."

The latest peak of concern in the Baltic came in September during the Zapad annual joint military exercise held by Russia and Belarus. Prior to the drill, some media in the Baltics claimed that they were training for a potential invasion.

Russia and NATO, partners in some areas like counter-terrorism, have their unresolved disputes. Arguably the most painful is the alliance’s plan to deploy an American anti-ballistic missile system in Eastern Europe. Moscow sees the plan as a threat to its national security, since it may undermine Russia’s nuclear deterrence.

Despite years of effort to find a compromise, Russia’s concerns over the ABM shield have not been addressed. In the latest anti-missile move, the US and Romania this week have begun revamping a military base in the eastern European country, which will host some elements of the system.

Russia’s latest military build-up move is the planned deployment of additional S-300 air defense batteries in Belarus. The two countries have joint integrated strategic air defense system guarding their borders.

The tension, however, is far from the antagonism of the Cold War. NATO representatives attended the Zapad drill, while Russia sent its observers for the ‘Steadfast Jazz’ exercise.


'Skandal': ISRAEL wasap sebagai pegawai Amerika tumpahan kacang Serangan peluru berpandu SYRIA . . .

Israeli F-15 fighter jets (AFP Photo/Jack Guez – think IN pictures @1WORLDCommunity)

SitiWanMahani - Selepas sumber dalam pentadbiran Obama berkata Israel bertanggung-jawab untuk serangan Rabu pada asas peluru berpandu Syria, seorang penganalisis Israel memberi amaran bahawa risiko Amerika Syarikat memulakan ‘yang sangat besar meluapkan.’

Tentera Udara Israel menyerang sebuah pangkalan tentera berhampiran bandar pela-buhan Syria Latakia, mensasarkan peluru berpandu dibuat Rusia SA 125 yang tuntutan Israel telah bersedia untuk dipindahkan kepada Hizbullah di Lubnan, seorang pegawai keselamatan memberitahu AP.

Seorang pegawai White House mengesahkan serangan itu berlaku dalam sekelip mata Khamis, tetapi dengan syarat tidak ada maklumat tambahan.

Pegawai-pegawai bercakap dengan syarat tidak mahu namanya disiarkan kerana mereka tidak diberi kuasa untuk membincangkan secara terbuka butiran serangan itu.

Walau bagaimanapun, tiada Israel atau Syria mengesahkan bahawa serangan tentera apa-pun yang telah berlaku.

Israel mematuhi oleh dasar tidak pernah mengulas mengenai insiden itu, sebaliknya, Tel Aviv menegaskan bahawa Israel tidak akan membenarkan senjata canggih untuk lulus ke tangan Hizbullah melalui wilayah Syria.

Tuduhan mendorong menegur keras pada malam Jumaat dari Israel Channel 10, yang dikenali sebagai kebocoran Amerika “skandal,” sambil menambah bahawa ia adalah “tidak masuk akal” untuk sekutu Israel untuk bertindak dalam apa-apa cara.

Channel Israel 2, seperti yang dipetik oleh ‘Times of Israel’, berkata kebocoran “datang secara langsung dari White House,” dan menyatakan bahawa “ini bukan kali pertama” bahawa pentadbiran Obama telah menunjukkan jari pada Israel, berikutan beberapa serbuan ke atas sasaran Syria.

Saluran ini pergi setakat untuk mencadangkan pertimbangan yang telah diberikan kepada mewujudkan panel untuk menyiasat sumber-sumber yang dipercayai di dalam Pentagon, walaupun ia tidak memberi sebarang petunjuk tentang bagaimana kerajaan asing mungkin boleh meminta langkah sedemikian terhadap tentera negara lain pusat arahan.

Penganalisis tentera Channel 2, Roni Daniel, berkata dasar Israel berdiam diri sama ada ia dijalankan serangan seperti itu dibenarkan untuk mengekalkan deniability munasabah, supaya Presiden Syria Bashar Assad tidak merasa dipaksa untuk bertindak balas terhadap serangan itu.

Walau bagaimanapun, ini seolah-olah telah menjadi lonjakan besar keparcayaan pada sebahagian daripada kerajaan Israel, kerana Menteri Luar Syria, Walid Moallem, memberi amaran pada akhir Mei “jika Israel menyerang lagi, kami akan bertindak balas dengan segera.”

Para cendekiawan politik Israel berhujah White House, dengan secara terbuka bocor berita tindakan Israel,”. Menolak Assad lebih dekat ke tahap di mana dia tidak boleh menelan serangan ini, dan akan bertindak balas “Daniel menyimpulkannya: “Kemudian mungkin Amerika Syarikat akan bertepuk tangan kerana ia akan telah memulakan satu yang sangat besar meluapkannya. "

Ini bukan kali pertama Israel telah dituduh oleh Amerika Syarikat bagi menjalankan serangan ke atas wilayah Syria. Pada 5 Julai, 2013, Tentera Udara Israel disyaki mensasarkan pemasangan tentera di Latakia yang didakwa ditempatkan Russian peluru berpandu anti- kapal Yakhont, senjata canggih yang pegawai Israel sebelum ini berkata mereka tidak akan membenarkan untuk sampai ke Syria.

Berita serangan berupa Israel datang di tengah-tengah perang Syria awam yang hampir menarik campur tangan tentera Amerika Syarikat, berikutan serangan senjata kimia misteri pada 21 Ogos di pinggir bandar Damsyik yang menyebabkan beratus-ratus kematian dan kecederaan.

Dengan tindakan ketenteraan yang berlaku, Presiden Rusia Vladimir Putin berjaya dalam memajukan pelan bersetuju bahawa Syria akan memusnahkan semua senjata kimia itu, di bawah naungan Pertubuhan bagi Larangan Senjata Kimia (OPCW).

Setakat ini, kerajaan Syria telah bekerjasama dengan penyiasatan di tengah-tengah suasana yang tegang di dalam negara itu, dan seperti yang ditunjukkan oleh tindakan jelas Israel, dan juga di luarnya.

‘Scandalous’: Israel fumes as US officials spill the beans 
on Syrian missile strike . . .

After sources in the Obama administration said Israel was responsible for Wednesday’s attack on a Syrian missile base, an Israeli analyst warned that the US risks starting ‘a very major flare-up.’

The Israeli Air Force struck a military base near the Syrian port city of Latakia, targeting Russian-made SA 125 missiles that Israel claims were set to be transferred to Hezbollah in Lebanon, a security official told AP.

A White House official confirmed the attack happened overnight Thursday, but provided no additional information.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss details of the attack.

However, neither Israel nor Syria confirmed that a military strike of any sort had occurred.

Israel abides by a policy of never commenting on such incidences; rather, Tel Aviv reiterated that Israel will not allow advanced weapons to pass into the hands of Hezbollah via Syrian territory.

The accusation prompted a harsh rebuke on Friday night from Israeli Channel 10, which called the American leak “scandalous,” adding that it was “unthinkable” for Israel’s ally to be acting in such a way.

Israel’s Channel 2, as quoted by the Times of Israel, said the leak “came directly from the White House,” and noted that “this is not the first time” that the Obama administration has pointed the finger at Israel, following a number of raids on Syrian targets.

The channel went so far as to suggest that consideration had been given to establishing a panel to investigate the sources, believed to be inside the Pentagon, although it gave no indication as to how a foreign government could possibly invoke such a measure against another country’s military command center.

Channel 2′s military analyst, Roni Daniel, said Israel’s policy of remaining silent on whether it carried out such attacks permitted it to maintain plausible deniability, so that Syria’s President Bashar Assad did not feel compelled to respond to the attacks.

However, this seems to have been a large leap of faith on the part of the Israeli government, since Syrian Foreign Minister, Walid Moallem, warned at the end of May “if Israel attacks again, we will retaliate immediately."

The Israeli political pundit argued the White House, by publicly leaking news of Israel’s actions, “are pushing Assad closer to the point where he can’t swallow these attacks, and will respond.” Daniel concluded: “Then perhaps the US will clap its hands because it will have started a very major flare-up.”

This is not the first time Israel has been accused by the United States for carrying out attacks on Syrian territory. On July 5, 2013, the Israeli Air Force was suspected of targeting a military installation in Latakia that allegedly housed Russian Yakhont anti-ship missiles, an advanced weapon that Israeli officials previously said they would not allow to reach Syria.

News of Israel’s purported attack comes amid the Syrian civil war that nearly attracted US military intervention, following a mysterious chemical weapons attack on August 21 in the suburbs of Damascus that resulted in hundreds of deaths and injuries.

With military action looking imminent, Russian President Vladimir Putin succeeded in advancing an agreed plan that would have Syria destroy all of it chemical weapons, under the auspices of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

Thus far, the Syrian government has been cooperating with the investigators amid a tense atmosphere both inside the country, and, as indicated by Israel’s apparent actions, outside as well.


'Ianya membuat anda paranoid': penunjuk perasaan berpaling menentang Amerika Syarikat $ 1.5bn kompleks mengintip yang mega . . .



SitiWanMahani - Satu lagi tanda jangkauan yang semakin berkembang Agensi Kesela-matan Negara - adalah jenama baru Utah Data Center. Tetapi ia menarik perhatian orang ramai penunjuk perasaan yang berterusan, yang telah mengambil alih sebahagian daripada lebuh raya tempatan untuk menunjukkan kemarahan mereka pada amalan pengawasan.

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Serangan Drone Amerika Syarikat membunuh  
kepala Taliban Pakistan . . .

SitiWanMahani - Dia ketua Taliban Pakistan, Hakimullah Mehsud, telah terbunuh oleh serangan Drone Amerika Syarikat pada hari Jumaat, kata pegawai perisikan Pakistan. Sumber kanan di dalam kumpulan militan disahkan mati.

US drone strike kills Pakistani Taliban head

He head of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, was killed by a US drone strike on Friday, Pakistani intelligence officials said. Senior sources within the militant group confirmed the death.

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Apakah ia, sebenarnya, yang mendorong negara untuk melaksanakan undang-undang melarang kajian sejarah? Akibatnya telah melemahkan ke Jerman dan terus sehingga ke hari ini. (What is it, exactly, that drives a country to implement laws forbidding historical review? The cost has been debilitating to Germany and continues to be so to this day).

Israel Sasar doktor perang haiwan! . . .



SitiWanMahani Snordster "Israel Targets War Vets! (Israel Sasar doktor perang haiwan)! hit here: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/08/20/israel-secretly-targeting-us-war-veterans/

Few outside the US know how American veterans suffer. After Vietnam, Senator John McCain, according to Col's Ted Guy, Earl Hopper and Jim Hanke worked tirelessly to make sure none of the hundreds of POWs held after the end of the war were repatriated.

Veterans didn't know. They never guessed that they could be targeted like Syria or Iran. The "war" in the Middle East wasn't supposed to come to America, not here and certainly not be fought against veterans, so many of whom fought illegal and hopeless wars on behalf of Israel. They know now.

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Israel Manfaat yang DUNIA hilang . . .



SitiWanMahani Snordster "Israel Benefits as World Loses. Bang on essay from Paul Balles. (Israel Manfaat yang DUNIA hilang. Bang pada esei dari Paul Balles) hit here: http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2013/10/israel-benefits-world-loses/

Ia Tidak Ada!



SitiWanMahani Snordster "Ia Tidak Ada! Dari komen oleh Mike Rivero, pada (what-reallyhappened.com). laman web beliau". Pembohongan dan penipuan tidak akan hilang dalam naratif yang berterusan Yahudi untuk meningkatkan israhell dari tanah yang dicuri ke negeri yang sah. Ia tidak akan berhenti sama adanya, sehingga kita menghalang mereka ini.

It's Not There! From a comment by Mike Rivero, at his website whatreallyhappened.com. The lies and deception will never dissipate in the ongoing jewish narrative to elevate israhell from a stolen land to a legitimate land. It never will stop either, until we stop them.

Israel tidak akan mengulas mengenai serangan Syria, bernazar untuk menghalang senjata penghantaran Hezbollah . . .

An Israeli F-16I jet.(AFP Photo/Jack Guez – think IN pictures @1WRLDCommunity)

SitiWanMahani - Israel tidak akan mengulas mengenai serangan Syria, bernazar untuk menghalang senjata penghantaran Hezbollah

Israel enggan mengulas mengenai serangan udara yang didakwa mencecah pangkalan pertahanan udara Syria pada Khamis. Sebaliknya, para pegawai mengeluarkan kenyataan deja vu yang mengatakan bahawa Israel tidak akan membenarkan senjata canggih untuk jatuh ke tangan Hizbullah.

“Kami telah banyak kali berkata bahawa kita tidak akan membenarkan pemindahan senjata canggih kepada Hizbullah. Kami berpegang kepada dasar ini dan saya berkata demikian tanpa menafikan atau mengesahkan laporan ini,” ‘Menteri Pertahanan The Home Front’ Gilad Erdan memberitahu Radio Israel pada hari Jumaat.

Dilaporkan ‘The Home Front’ bertemu hanya beberapa jam sebelum serangan udara yang dikatakan pada asas Syria di Latakia.

Pada petang Khamis, letupan menggegarkan kawasan yang menempatkan satu kuasa udara dengan pasukan tentera yang setia kepada Presiden Syria Bashar Assad, seorang aktivis yang berpangkalan di bandar pelabuhan utama Syria Latakia kepada Reuters.

Balai Cerap Syria yang berpangkalan di Britain untuk Hak Asasi Manusia, yang mempunyai rangkaian kenalan di Syria, berkata terdapat sehingga 5 letupan di pangkalan tentera udara tetapi hanya terhad kerosakan dilaporkan. Kerosakan yang mencadangkan menentukan serangan peluru berpandu, sumber tempatan tanpa nama kepada organisasi.

Seorang bekas ejen perisikan Syria yang telah berpaling tadah ke Perancis mendakwa peluru berpandu balistik buatan Rusia telah disimpan di pangkalan tentera udara yang telah diserang.

Walau bagaimanapun, tiada Israel atau maupun Syria mengesahkan bahawa serangan itu berlaku pada semuanya.

Pengesahan datang dari seorang pegawai keselamatan Amerika Syarikat sebaliknya, yang dibocorkan kepada media bahawa Israel melakukan serangan dan sasaran itu permukaan ke udara peluru berpandu SA 125.

Israel adalah sekurang-kurangnya daripada geli hati dengan kebocoran. Yedioth Ahronoth, jualan atas Israel, berkata, “Washington menjual rahsia kami murah.”

Israel dipercayai telah menyerang Syria 4 kali, kali terakhir pada 5 Julai 2013. Pada masa itu, Perdana Menteri Benjamin Netanyahu sekali lagi berkata bahawa dia tidak akan membenarkan Hezbollah mendapatkan tangannya pada senjata canggih.

Israel juga menyerang sebuah pusat penyelidikan tentera di luar Damsyik pada 5 Mei. Serangan udara itu disahkan oleh seorang pegawai kanan Amerika Syarikat  berita NBC, yang mengatakan bahawa ia disasarkan Iran dibekalkan peluru berpandu Fateh-110.

Satu sumber kanan Israel mengesahkan kepada AFP bahawa serangan udara Israel dilakukan berhampiran dengan lapangan terbang Damsyik sasaran peluru berpandu Iran yang telah ditakdirkan untuk Hizbullah.

Kementerian Kesihatan Syria tidak mengesahkan jika terdapat mangsa, walaupun khabar angin dalam media sosial Syria mengatakan bahawa sekurang-kurangnya 300 anggota tentera yang ditempatkan di sana telah dibunuh.

Hezbollah yang berpangkalan di Lubnan dan mempunyai hubungan yang rapat dengan Syiah negeri seperti Iran. Ia juga mempunyai hubungan rapat dengan kepimpinan Alawi Assad di Syria.

Hezbollah aktif menyokong perjuangan rakyat Palestin dan berada dalam keadaan perang maya dengan Israel. Pada tahun 2006, konflik 34 hari kemarahan di antara tentera Israel dan tentera Hizbullah di Lubnan, utara Israel, dan Golan Heights.

Israel won't comment on Syria strike, vows to hinder 
Hezbollah arms shipments . . .

Israel has declined to comment on airstrikes which allegedly hit a Syrian air defense base on Thursday. Instead, officials issued a déjà vu statement which said that Israel will not allow advanced weapons to fall into the hands of Hezbollah.

“We have said many times that we will not allow the transfer of advanced weapons to Hezbollah. We are sticking to this policy and I say so without denying or confirming this report,” Home Front Defense Minister Gilad Erdan told Israeli Radio on Friday.

The Home Front reportedly met just hours before the alleged airstrike on Syria’s base in Latakia.

On Thursday afternoon, an explosion rocked an area which housed an air force brigade with troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad, an activist based in the principal Syrian port city of Latakia told Reuters.

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has a network of contacts in Syria, said there had been up to five explosions at the air force base but that only limited damage was reported. The damage suggested a pinpoint guided missile strike, an anonymous local source told the organization.

A former Syrian intelligence agent who has defected to France alleged that Russian-made ballistic missiles had been stored at the air force base that was attacked.

However, neither Israel nor Syria confirmed that the strike took place at all.

A confirmation came from a US security official instead, who leaked to the press that Israel carried out the strikes and that the target was surface-to-air SA 125 missiles.

Israel was less than amused with the leak. Yedioth Ahronoth, the top selling Israeli daily, said that “Washington is selling our secrets on the cheap.”

Israel is believed to have attacked Syria on four occasions, the last time on July 5, 2013. At that time, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu again said that he wouldn’t let Hezbollah get its hands on sophisticated weapons.

Israel also attacked a military research center outside Damascus on May 5. The airstrike was confirmed by a senior US official to NBC news, who said that it targeted Iranian supplied Fateh-110 missiles.

A senior Israeli source confirmed to AFP that an Israeli airstrike carried out near the Damascus airport targeted Iranian missiles which were destined for Hezbollah.

The Syrian Ministry of Health did not confirm if there were casualties, though rumors on Syrian social media say that at least 300 soldiers who were stationed there were killed.

Hezbollah is based in Lebanon and has close relations with Shia states such as Iran. It also has close ties with Assad’s Alawite leadership in Syria.

Hezbollah actively supports the Palestinian cause and is in a state of virtual war with Israel. In 2006, a 34-day conflict raged between Israeli armed forces and Hezbollah in Lebanon, northern Israel, and the Golan Heights.


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