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2008-12-27 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

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Posted by phil_b 2008-12-27 18:25|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 So that means there won't be any. Debka is *never* correct.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-12-27 19:05|| 2008-12-27 19:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Debka has been right 1 or 2 times when came down too this once a year fighting between these two

Posted by rabid whitetail 2008-12-27 19:24|| 2008-12-27 19:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Debka has been correct quite often in the last 8 years in which I have followed them closely. Other Israeli media outlets now reporting the same thing about ground assault preparations that debka reported quite some time ago. Doesn't mean it will happen, but the JP and Arutz7 are reporting same thing.

Posted by Wolverine 2008-12-27 20:01|| 2008-12-27 20:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Debka is better the closer they are to the situation. Outside of Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt and Jordan, the quality drops off sharply.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-12-27 21:16|| 2008-12-27 21:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Let us pray. Let them prey.

Happy hunting, chaverim!

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2008-12-27 21:59|| 2008-12-27 21:59|| Front Page Top

#6 I have been reading Debka reports for years and have never ever seen a single one of their analysis prove out.

" Debka has been correct quite often in the last 8 years in which I have followed them closely"

Sure, when they are reporting something reported by another news service or something put out by a government ministry in a public context. But *never* have I ever experienced a "Debka Exclusive" being correct. Not once. Ever.

Sure, what they report might validate what some people might wish to be true and that influences people to believe it.

The government of Israel has said they might follow up with ground forces so Debka isn't reporting anything they couldn't get off of AP or Reuters in this case.

But if anyone can give me a single case of a Debka exclusive ever being correct, I will give you a cheese burger and a coke. I have never, ever, seen one. Not once.

Heck, they had us attacking Iran a half dozen different times over the past 5 years. A few times even saying the attack was "imminent".

Fools.

Posted by crosspatch 2008-12-27 21:59|| 2008-12-27 21:59|| Front Page Top

#7 I wouldn't be surprised if there is a special ops move against the tunnels. Thats hardly Debka going out on a limb though.

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-12-27 22:20|| 2008-12-27 22:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Just dig a short canal along the border to the ocean.
With the sand near every tunnel should end up flooded.

Posted by 3dc 2008-12-27 22:26|| 2008-12-27 22:26|| Front Page Top

#9 crosspatch, Debka called the transfer of WMD from Iraq to Syria and Sudan first, before anyone else. That was the only time I've seen them correct, outside Israel.

I did not believe the Sudan part of the story, but then it got verified from another source that stated Sudan decided to return some unspecified equipment to Syria, saying they don't want to have anything to do with it.

Posted by Spike Uniter 2008-12-27 23:00|| 2008-12-27 23:00|| Front Page Top

#10 Sudan had some of Iraq's WMD? I missed that one, Spike Uniter.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2008-12-27 23:24|| 2008-12-27 23:24|| Front Page Top

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