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July 17, 2009, 12:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli president Shimon Peres and prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu have begun exchanging messages with Syrian president Bashar Assad through a new channel of communications opened in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s diplomatic sources reveal. When Assad arrived in Baku Wednesday, July 8, he found a message from ...
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July 7, 2009, 9:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Dolphin-class attack submarine is reported to be the first Israeli naval vessel to transit the Suez Canal in four years on its way from Haifa to Eilat last month. According to <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s military sources, the move indicates a strengthening of the informal Israel-Egyptian-Saudi pact forged in recent ...
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July 6, 2009, 4:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Israeli government's decision Sunday, June 28, to extend Meir Dagan's service as director of Israel's external intelligence service, the Mossad, until the end of 2010 raised some dust in political circles - especially after his deputy resigned in a huff over the long wait for his turn ...
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June 30, 2009, 4:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
Despite his pledge to keep security considerations uppermost in his dealings with the Palestinians, Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu is buckling under pressure from the US administration aimed at softening Israel up ahead of Middle East peace talks.<br/>This pressure turned Netanyahu's first official visits to Rome and Paris ...</br/>
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June 28, 2009, 3:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
In less than a month, aides in Washington and Jerusalem have transmuted the head-on clash forecast for the first meeting between Binyamin Netanyahu has Israel's prime minister and US president Barack Obama Monday, May 18, into a warm, amicable encounter, <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s political analysts say. <br/>This is less ...</br/>
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June 26, 2009, 9:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
Ruling circles in Tehran have interpreted a remark by Israel's Mossad director Meir Dagan as signifying Jerusalem's non-interference in the domestic turmoil besetting the regime over the disputed presidential election, <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s Iranian sources report. They see Israel lining up with mainstream Arab governments such as Egypt ...
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June 26, 2009, 9:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's defense minister Ehud Barak said his talks in Cairo Sunday, June 21, with President Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian defense minister Gen. Tantawi and intelligence minister Gen. Omar Suleiman were interesting and wide-ranging. They covered Iran, Lebanon, Gaza, US president Barak Obama's Middle East peace initiative<br/>and the case ...</br/>
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June 20, 2009, 5:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
Netanyahu's speech - more political than statesmanlike
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June 19, 2009, 9:23 AM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli prime minister Binyamin for the first time spoke in favor of a Palestinian state alongside Israel in his speech at Bar Ilan University Sunday, June 14. But only on condition that the Palestinian state is demilitarized, does not control its air space, accepts effective security arrangements against arms smuggling ...
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June 13, 2009, 6:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
If successful, Binyamin Netanyahu's first meeting as Israeli prime minister with Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak at Sharm el Sheikh Monday, May 11, may well mark an epic turning-point in Middle East history recalling the 1979 peace breakthrough with Egypt. Their common goals - and Mubarak speaks for the Saudi king ...
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June 9, 2009, 12:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli president Shimon Peres' task in Washington on May 4-5 is to blunt the sharp edge the White House is honing to force Israel to toe the new Washington line on the Palestinians, Syria and Iran. <br/>Prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu can expect the full force of a bludgeon to be ...</br/>
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June 8, 2009, 10:05 AM (GMT+02:00)
Enough fissile material for Iranian nuke by year's end - AMAN officer
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June 3, 2009, 9:04 AM (GMT+02:00)
Jerusalem man kills Arab, badly injures Jew in shooting rampage
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May 28, 2009, 7:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
The detailed report compiled by the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) in Washington last month, complete with graphs and diagrams, has been reprinted in thousands of copies in Tehran. It is compulsory reading for its intelligence and Revolutionary Guards personnel because the Study on a Possible Israeli Strike on Iran's Nuclear Development Facilities concludes that the Jewish state has all the resources necessary for a successful strike. <br/>When asked recently, Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint US Chiefs of Staff, agreed with this estimate. This week, president Shimon Peres and prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu both said that if diplomacy failed to halt Iran's nuclear activities, Israel would be left with no option other than the military one. And Tuesday, April 14, the <em>New York Times</em> quoted an Israeli official as saying that Jerusalem would give the Obama administration until late 2009 to stop Iran's uranium enrichment projects; after that, Israel will be forced to act.<br/>Tehran responded with a complaint to the UN Security Council demanding that Israel be condemned for "its threats against a sovereign state."<br/>For the past three years, US military and intelligence sources have ...</br/></br/>
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May 27, 2009, 9:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel to drill missile attack from many directions<br/>
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May 27, 2009, 8:54 PM (GMT+02:00)
A senior Israel intelligence official criticized Israel ministers for jumping on the German "Der Spiegel" report which claimed that the UN tribunal on the case of the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese PM Hariri had new evidence implicating Hizballah leader Nasrallah rather than Syria. <br/>The official was speaking to <span class="debka">debka ...</span></br/>
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May 26, 2009, 11:24 AM (GMT+02:00)
A high-ranking Israeli delegation is to meet US officials in London with a defense ministry plan for evacuating some 24 unauthorized outposts on the West Bank. This plan was prepared ahead of defense minister Ehud Barak's visit to Washington next week and backed solidly by prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu ...
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May 24, 2009, 11:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
US president Barack Obama's plan to launch a fresh Middle East initiative is a non-starter as long as the extremist Hamas rules the Gaza Strip, said Shin Bet (internal security agency) director Yuval Diskin Tuesday, May 19. He was commenting to the Knesset foreign affairs and security committee on ...
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May 24, 2009, 2:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
In response to twin Qassam missile attack on Sderot from Gaza Tuesday, May 19, the Israeli Air Force went into action early Wednesday against a range of Hamas positions in Rafah, Khan Younes, Zeitun and Tufah suburbs of Gaza city and, Deir Balakh. <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s military sources report that ...
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May 23, 2009, 2:54 PM (GMT+02:00)
The new US president's dramatic global policy steps have easily dwarfed the knotty Israeli-Palestinian peace issue handed down from one US president to the next over decades. Barack Obama's outstretched hand to Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Iran's best friend in the Americas, on April 17, at the ...
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