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DEBKAfile
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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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April 5, 2009, 10:36 AM (GMT+02:00)
Judge Advocate General Brig.-Gen Avichai Mandelblit decided March 30 to close the Military Police probe into allegations that Israeli soldiers committed human rights violations and abuses during Operation Cast Lead the IDF against Hamas last January. The advocate general, established that the charges rested purely on hearsay and rumor, generated ...
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April 5, 2009, 7:09 AM (GMT+02:00)
Lt. Gen. Gaby Ashkenazi, IDF chief of staff, was invited for talks with the Chairman of the US chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen Friday, April 3.
Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi voiced horror over the axe-murder by a Palestinian of the 12-year old Israel boy Shlomo Nativ outside his ... 
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April 4, 2009, 3:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
Shlomo Nativ, 13, died of the wounds inflicted by one or more Palestinian terrorists on an axe-wielding rampage in Bat Ayin, a community in the West Bank Gush Etzion Bloc. A second boy, aged 7, was seriously injured in the attack. Residents opened fire on the terrorists who managed to ...
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April 4, 2009, 1:40 PM (GMT+02:00)
A senior US official accompanying president Barack Obama to the G20 summit in London made this remark Wednesday April 1, in response to a statement from Avigdor Lieberman on his first day as foreign minister. Lieberman stressed that the incoming Netanyahu government was not bound by commitments made at the ...
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April 4, 2009, 11:05 AM (GMT+02:00)
Introducing Israel's 32nd government to the Knesset, March 31, Binyamin Netanyahu said Israel faced two major perils on two fronts - the economy and security. Neither was caused by our actions, but the outcome of both will depend on how Israel acts.
Israel seeks peace with the entire Arab and Muslim ... 
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April 4, 2009, 11:04 AM (GMT+02:00)
The incoming Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu has armed himself with an inner cabinet of 7-8 professional for decision-making on diplomatic, military, security and strategic matters, debkafile's military sources report. Hawkish-leaning in outlook, they will provide him with material for decisions on such weighty issues as a military ...
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April 2, 2009, 9:11 AM (GMT+02:00)
Designated prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu simply pushes away any suggestion of pressure on Israel from the Obama administration in Washington, while Ehud Olmert has said a few days before bowing out that he has left the Iranian nuclear threat to the next government.
Olmert forgot to mention that his government's policy ... 
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March 31, 2009, 1:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
Duped again by a Hamas promise to negotiate a long-term truce, Israel reacted by stepping up its air attacks over the Gaza Strip from Friday, Feb. 13, to hold down a fresh upsurge of Palestinian violence.
After spreading false reports that an 18-month truce and a deal for the release ... 
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March 30, 2009, 9:47 AM (GMT+02:00)
Last September, two former Israeli prime ministers who failed to survive full term made common, cross-party cause for a pact which is now coming into its own, say debkafile's political analyst. Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu can count on heading a new government in less than two weeks, retaining ...
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March 28, 2009, 10:36 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's Labor party voted to join the government headed by Likud leader, Binyamin Netanyahu Tuesday night, March 24. Seven Knesset members and the young section tried to torpedo the conference in a tempestuous revolt against Labor leader Ehud Barak's partnership accord with Netanyahu. Out of 1,191 members, 57.9 percent backed ...
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March 28, 2009, 11:35 AM (GMT+02:00)
Sheikh Ahmad al Fahd al Jabar al Sabah, head of Kuwait's national intelligence service, arrived in Ramallah Monday, March 23, as guest of Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas. He also scheduled appointments with senior Israeli intelligence officials.
But he left in a huff when Israel denied him permission to pray ... 
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March 25, 2009, 7:29 AM (GMT+02:00)
The coming DEBKA-Net-Weekly looks at some unfinished Middle East business Binyamin Netanyahu inherits. Is Israel's military option against Iran concrete? Will he order Round 2 of wars on Hamas or Hizballah? Pick up stalled peace process with Palestinians?
This insider forecast appeared in the DEBKA-Net-Weekly out last Friday, ... |
