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1321 articles tagged "Israel"
DEBKAfile
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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 ...
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May 27, 2009, 9:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
Deputy defense minister Matan Vilnai outlined the nationwide civil defense exercise to be staged next week in a briefing to the Knesset foreign affairs and security committee Monday, May 25. Next Tuesday, he said, sirens would send the entire population heading for the nearest shelters or protected sites.
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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.
Absolving Syria of complicity in the crime ... 
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May 26, 2009, 11:24 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile: However many outposts are evacuated, the Obama administration will object strenuously to an Israeli strike against Iran. This is clear to prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and is unlikely to change in defense minister Ehud Barak's talks in Washington next week.
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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 on the extensive talks the US president held with Israeli ...
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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. debkafile'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 shifts 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 summit of American leaders ...
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May 23, 2009, 2:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
Preparing to take over as Israel's 32nd prime minister this week, Binyamin Netanyahu bound 7-8 ministers and senior officials into a powerful new body to assist him in top-level decision-making on military, diplomatic, security and intelligence policy-making and actions.
Its members fall into two main groups, military and strategic-intelligence. Their ... 
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May 17, 2009, 4:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
Only two weeks ago, Israel's chief of staff Lt. Gen. Gaby Ashkenazi, then visiting Washington, was denied interviews with US defense secretary Robert Gates and the chairman of the US chiefs of staff Adm. Mike Mullen. He cut short his visit after seeing national security adviser Gen. James Jones and ...
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May 15, 2009, 11:15 AM (GMT+02:00)
The White House has set dates for president Hosni Mubarak to hold talks with US President Barack Obama on May 26, eight days after the Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu's May 18 visit. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas will round out the Middle East cycle on May 28.
Spokesman Robert Gibbs said ... 
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May 15, 2009, 11:15 AM (GMT+02:00)
If successful, Binyamin Netanyahu's first talks as Israeli prime minister with Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak at Sharm el Sheikh Monday, May 11, could mark the epic birth of Israel's first alliance with two key Arab nations, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, in order to stop Iran - possibly for concessions on ...
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May 12, 2009, 6:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
The widely anticipated address by Pope Benedict XVI at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Center in Jerusalem was too general, theological and abstract to ease strains with the Jewish people.
He rekindled the Perpetual Flame in the Hall of Remembrance, laid a memorial wreath and met survivors and non-Jews honored for ...
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May 8, 2009, 12:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
Sgt. Noam Adin Rechter, 20, from Mitzpe Netufa, was on operational duty, searching for terrorists in the West Bank village of Bir Zeit Thursday, May 7, when his unit was confronted by a hostile group of stone-throwing Palestinians. During the arrest of five of their number, the soldier's rifle inadvertently ...
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May 7, 2009, 12:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
Addressing the AIPAC Israeli lobby conference by satellite early Tuesday. May 5, Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu offered peace talks "the sooner the better."
Israel's president Shimon Peres met US president Barack Obama at the White House Tuesday, May 5. Part of their conversation was tete-a-tete. He told the AIPAC conference ...
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May 3, 2009, 11:43 AM (GMT+02:00)
Seven Israeli Arabs and two juveniles were arraigned at Haifa district court Thursday, April 30, on charges of plotting terrorist attacks and kidnapping Israeli soldiers during Israel's Gaza operation four months ago.
Nine bombs ready for detonation were found in their homes and manuals on bomb-making and abduction techniques. The suspects ... 
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April 27, 2009, 6:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
The population of southwestern Israel will remain vulnerable to attack after eight years should Hamas revive the Qassam missile blitz from the Gaza Strip.
Defense minister Ehud Barak, after finally accepting that the Iron Dome still under development will not be up to the task, applied to Washington to purchase ...
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April 25, 2009, 11:51 AM (GMT+02:00)
An exhaustive probe carried out by the Israeli military has failed to turn up a single case of an Israeli serviceman on land, sea or air, knowingly shooting a Palestinian civilian during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza which ended in January.
This was part of the interim report on the ... 
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April 21, 2009, 10:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
A prestigious Washington think tank - the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) - has concluded by means of detailed research and analysis that Israel is militarily capable of destroying Iran's nuclear program. This view is shared by the Adm. Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint US Chiefs of ...
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April 15, 2009, 11:43 AM (GMT+02:00)
By submitting his resignation as Palestinian prime minister Saturday, March 7, the pro-American Salam Fayyad removes a major roadblock to a power-sharing accord between the extremist Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, and Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah, which governs the West Bank.
This accord if concluded would open the door to ... 
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April 8, 2009, 7:48 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's political sources reveal Binyamin Netanyahu's planned launch of his second term as prime minister with a flurry of diplomacy. Thursday, April 2, trips to Cairo and Jordan had already been scheduled for talks with president Hosni Mubarak and King Abdullah II, followed by a visit to Washington ...
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