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1319 articles tagged "Israel"
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August 8, 2008, 11:17 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Cairo effort to broker a ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas proves now to have been no more than a cover-up for the real game afoot: a move brokered by the Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade to mend the feud between Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah and the fundamentalist ...
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August 6, 2008, 2:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi commented Monday, Aug. 4: We know where Gilead Shalit is held and who is holding him."
debkafile's military sources report that the general's incautious remark during a visit to new recruits at the armored corps basic training camp aroused widespread disapproval. These ... 
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August 3, 2008, 5:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
Likud leader Binyamin Netanyahu takes issue with the manner of prime minister Ehud Olmert's decision to leave office, because it sidesteps the voter.
Passing the premiership sideways to a successor, which Olmert's own Kadima will elect in a primary in two months, is a form of "artificial respiration" for a ... 
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August 2, 2008, 12:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
Shin Bet director Yuval Diskin reported to the cabinet meeting in Jerusalem Sunday, July 27, an increase of organized plans by terrorist groups to kidnap more Israeli soldiers.
Reviewing the security situation in Jerusalem, Diskin sounded an alarm: Local Palestinians are increasingly ready to embrace religious radicalism and global jihadist ...
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July 28, 2008, 6:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
Shihab al-Natsheh 25, barricaded himself in his house in the West Bank town of Hebron and opened fire on the Israeli troops. After several hours, they bulldozed his house and found Natsheh's body. He had been sought for assigning the suicide bombing in Dimona that killed an Israeli woman and ...
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July 27, 2008, 7:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
Yuval Diskin, director of Israel's internal security service warned the cabinet meeting Sunday, July 27, that the increasing involvement of East Jerusalem Palestinians in terrorist attacks was alarming. He urged the ministers to hurry up and apply deterrent penalties for the two terrorist attacks by bulldozers on Jerusalem's main streets ...
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July 21, 2008, 10:51 AM (GMT+02:00)
The project consists of five pipelines that would carry water, natural gas, oil, electricity and fiber optics from Turkey's Mediterranean coast to Israel. Infrastructure minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer: "We are very close to an agreement with Russia for the supply of natural gas for the pipeline."
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July 20, 2008, 7:51 PM (GMT+02:00)
The military funerals at the home towns of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, Nahariya and Haifa, returned in coffins by Hizballah Wednesday, were watched by Israelis nationwide in live television broadcasts. Many thousands attended the funerals along with national leaders. In tearful scenes, they condoled with Karnit Goldwasser, widowed after ...
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July 18, 2008, 9:36 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report that Israel has placed its military and air forces on its northern borders on high alert after Iran and Syria ignored Jerusalem's warning that the continued presence of Iranian, Syrian and Hizballah officers on the strategic Lebanese Sannine peak may spark a military clash.
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July 16, 2008, 10:39 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Galilee Liberation Brigades claimed the latest Palestinian terrorist attack in Jerusalem, in which a gunman shot two Israel Border Police guards at the Old City's Lions' Gate just before midnight on July 11 and vanished in the nearby ancient Muslim cemetery. Both, seriously hurt, returned fire.
Police commissioner Dudi ... 
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July 15, 2008, 10:36 PM (GMT+02:00)
Following the two-hour police interrogation of prime minister Ehud Olmert at his Jerusalem home, Friday, July 11, the Justice ministry and Police jointly announced their investigation had been widened beyond the Talansky case.
Olmert and his agents are now suspected of fraudulently obtaining the costs of each of his foreign trips ...
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July 15, 2008, 7:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
Monday, July 14, the Knesset interior committee Monday approved a bill ahead of second and third reading penalizing individuals guilty of aiding terror, terrorist organization membership, espionage and treason with loss of Israeli citizenship or permanent residency. The minister of interior would make this decision on the strength of a ...
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July 12, 2008, 9:36 PM (GMT+02:00)
It was obvious that US president George W. Bush's denunciation of those who would negotiate with "terrorists and radicals" had put the Democratic candidate, Senator Barack Obama, on the spot. Minutes after the words had been spoken on Thursday, May 16, in a special 60th anniversary session of the Israeli ...
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July 11, 2008, 3:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
Following the two-hour police interrogation of prime minister Ehud Olmert at his Jerusalem home, Friday, July 11, the Justice ministry and Police jointly announced the widening of their investigation beyond the Talansky case.
Olmert and his agents are now suspected of fraudulently obtaining the costs of each of his foreign ... 
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July 7, 2008, 5:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
The bulldozer assault on July 2, a first in terrorist annals, claimed three Israel lives and left more than 70 people injured. The victims were Elizabeth Goren-Friedman, 54, Bathsheva Onterman, 33, and Zen Raluay, 68.
One common denominator of all three attacks, which has been largely obscured by Israeli authorities, was ... 
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July 6, 2008, 9:12 AM (GMT+02:00)
In a rampage along Jerusalem's crowded Jaffa Street thoroughfare, a bulldozer driven by a terrorist hoisted and overturned a packed 13 bus, while extending its shovel and plowing into several vehicles and pedestrians.
The victims were Elizabeth Goren-Friedman, 54, Bathsheva Onterman, 33, and Zen Raluay, 68, all from Jerusalem. Bathsheva saved ... 
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July 6, 2008, 9:12 AM (GMT+02:00)
According to debkafile's military and intelligence sources, the overriding considerations that will determine if and when Israel attacks Iran are these: whether to strike before George W. Bush's exit, whether Iran's strategic ties with Syria and the Palestinian Hamas can be severed in advance and what prime minister ...
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July 5, 2008, 12:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's counter-terror sources identify the "Galilee Liberators Brigades" as a clandestine Hizballah offshoot which has established centers in the Arab villages of Manda and Kana in the northern Israeli Galilee. The Galilee Liberators' murderous record goes back five years, according to our sources. In 2003, its members kidnapped ...
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July 4, 2008, 9:28 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile: The unusual publicity given to prime minister Ehud Olmert's visit to Israel's nuclear reactor at Dimona, in the southern Negev region, on July 1 - albeit after the fact - is a more than gentle hint to Iran of Israel's determination to pre-empt a nuclear-armed Iran.
It further ...
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July 2, 2008, 12:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
A rampaging bulldozer driven by a Palestinian lifted and overturned a bus and rammed several vehicles on the crowded Jerusalem's Jaffa Street opposite the National broadcasting Center. The tractor drive was shot dead by policeman. Police and emergency teams at scene digging out victims.
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