"Russia Sponsors Israeli Welfare System"

SouthFront reported November 28 on the strange state of affairs. As to why the Russians are making this expensive and totally unnecessary gift to the Israeli government, darned if SouthFront knows but they make two guesses:

• This is a part of the Israeli-Russian deal on Syria and (or) Ukraine;
• This is a public demonstration of the influence of the Israeli lobby in the Russian political establishment.

I wonder what deal was made about Syria. All I know is that the Russian government has officially condemned Israel's bombing sprees in Syria, evidently to no avail up to this point. 

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