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DEBKAfile
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February 18, 2007, 9:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
After calling repeatedly for a new uprising against Israel, Sheikh Raed Salah, head of the northern branch of Israel's Islamic movement, accused the Jewish state of seeking to rebuild the Temple "drenched in Arab blood."
Salah delivered a ferocious harangue in Jerusalem's Wadi Joz Friday. His Palestinian audience thereupon went ... 
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February 17, 2007, 11:39 AM (GMT+02:00)
The two Arrow missile radar systems homed in on a mock target dropped by the Israeli Air Force. debkafile's military sources add: Israeli military planners are working on the unproven assumption that Iran has developed a multiple warhead for its Shehab-3 medium-range missile, which can reach Israel.
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February 15, 2007, 1:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
Indicating his first priorities, Gen. Ashkenazi said: We must improve the IDF's professional standards and upgrade its operational capabilities. The lessons of the Lebanon War will be drawn. There is hard work ahead, he said; there are no magic recipes.
Gen.(ret) Uri Saguy, a former Military Intelligence-AMAN chief, foresaw Israel embroiled ...
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February 15, 2007, 11:22 AM (GMT+02:00)
A year and five months after their communities were uprooted in Gaza and the West Bank, most of the 10,000 evacuees are still homeless, jobless, lacking means of livelihood and a permanent place to live, their communities scattered.
The terrible neglect they are suffering, say the petitioners, may undermine the legitimacy ...
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February 12, 2007, 11:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
Striking policemen, they attempted to force their way up to Temple Mount to protest an archeological dig at Moghrabi Gate outside the shrines preparatory to repairs on the gate. Saudi and Jordanian monarchs joined radical Muslim leaders' charge that al Aqsa mosque is threatened, although the dig started Tuesday is ...
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February 11, 2007, 12:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
Speaking to reporters before the Palestinian Mecca summit of Feb. 6, Diskin said Hamas stood to gain most because, incorporated in a coalition with Fatah, it would win international acceptance and economic assistance.
The Shin Bet chief said Israel must be disturbed by the presence of at least 10 Palestinian cross-border ... 
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February 9, 2007, 8:42 AM (GMT+02:00)
He assumes office Wednesday, Feb. 14 at a time that the Gaza Strip is caught up in the flames of a Palestinian civil war.
Israeli ministers Shimon Peres and Amir Peretz say the Gaza infighting is no business of Israel's. However, debkafile's military sources report that Israel not ...
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February 5, 2007, 10:29 PM (GMT+02:00)
Sheikh Raed Saleh, leader of the Israeli Islamic Movement's northern branch, and head of the Jerusalem Supreme Council, Sheik Ikrama Sabir claims Israel is planning to knock down the Moghrabi Gate leading up to the mosques standing on Temple Mount and build a new gate structure and bridge for visitors. ...
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February 4, 2007, 9:35 PM (GMT+02:00)
No one was hurt. "Unfortunately," said Bloomberg, during a visit to the missile-battered Israeli town Friday, "on the other side of the border people are firing rockets and these rockets kill." He stressed that Israel should not negotiate with Palestinian organizations who do not abide by the three conditions set ...
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February 4, 2007, 9:35 PM (GMT+02:00)
After listening to military and security leaders Tuesday, he rejected all their proposals for military action against the perpetrators.
The bomber, Mohamed Faisal al-Siksik, 21, from Gaza, blew himself up in a bakery in the Red Sea resort of Eilat Monday, Jan. 29, killing the two proprietors, Michael Ben Sadon, ... 
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February 4, 2007, 4:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
The incoming chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Gaby Ashkenazi, won a full four-year term when the cabinet unanimously endorsed him Sunday, Feb 4, instead of the standard 3 years and an optional fourth. He takes the reins from Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz on Feb. 14. Ashkenazi faces some hard choices ...
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February 3, 2007, 6:44 PM (GMT+02:00)
Wednesday, the three Tel Aviv magistrates unanimously found the former minister, 56, guilty of forcibly kissing a 20-year old girl officer, who brought the complaint. The maximum penalty for this crime is three years in prison. Sentencing will be announced on Feb. 21. He is therefore barred from returning to ...
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January 30, 2007, 10:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel Samoliya, 26, who immigrated to Israel from Miami, Florida, and two local residents, Michael Ben Sadon, 27 and Emil Almaliach, 32, proprietors of the bombed bakery. The late Ben Sadon and Almaliach each left a wife and a small child.
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January 30, 2007, 6:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
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January 29, 2007, 9:29 AM (GMT+02:00)
After touring the Israel-Lebanese border Friday, the minister said the army was doing a good job but is not getting the right sort of support from the defense ministry. He reported Hizballah flags flying on positions close to the border.
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January 27, 2007, 8:42 PM (GMT+02:00)
His nomination by defense minister Amir Peretz was seconded Monday, Jan 22, by prime minister Ehud Olmert and comes before the cabinet for endorsement next week. debkafile's military sources reveal that Maj. Gen Moshe Kaplinsky, who bowed out of the race for the top slot, is now asking ...
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January 27, 2007, 8:42 PM (GMT+02:00)
Addressing the Herzliya Conference Monday, Lt. Gen Moshe Yaalon stressed that the difficulties of the Lebanon War were the outcome of high-level political and military mismanagement on the part of the prime minister and defense minister.
He devoted a large part of his lecture to challenging as fallacious the proposition ... 
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January 5, 2007, 10:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
Defense minister Amir Peretz went his own way this week, announcing the resettling of 30 Jewish families evacuated from the Gaza Strip last year in an abandoned outpost in the northern Jordan Valley.
Foreign minister Tzipi Livni stepped out of line with a "peace proposal" offered independently to two Fatah ...
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December 13, 2006, 5:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Iranian sources report the Islamic Republic plans an extensive campaign to justify its nuclear program, based on Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert's statement in Berlin Monday, Dec. 11, listing Israel with the world's nuclear powers. Tehran also hopes to rebut the universal revulsion stirred by the Holocaust ...
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December 10, 2006, 8:27 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's prime minister Ehud Olmert embarks on a European tour this week that takes him first to Rome and the Vatican, then to Berlin Tuesday, Dec. 12.
In an interview with the German Der Spiegel, Saturday Dec. 9, he expressed the hope that the international community would take firmer action ... |
