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1316 articles tagged "Israel"
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November 25, 2002, 12:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
A senior source in Israel's northern command warned Sunday, November 24, that Syria is making a bad mistake by fostering the Hizballah and letting Iran strengthen its mastery over the extremist Shiite group. This assertion left a question mark over the Israeli side of the equation - and for good ...
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November 20, 2002, 1:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
Amram Mitzna, 57, avowed dove and advocate of negotiations with the Palestinians - even amid surging terror - was picked as next Labor leader on November 19 in what looked more like a journey down memory lane than a hard-headed, future-oriented primary election. Labor, once considered Israel's natural ruling party, ...
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November 16, 2002, 11:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Palestinian ambush in Hebron that cost the lives of 12 Israelis, most from the security forces - including two senior officers, IDF Col. Dror Weinberg and Border Police Superintendent Samih Suwidan - is bound to have political fallout, occurring as it does two months and one week before Israel's ...
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November 5, 2002, 2:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon announced Tuesday, November 5, he had opted for an early election - reluctantly as the lesser evil, rather than bow to "political extortion". Later, a parliamentary committee set January 28, 2003 as voting day.
This decision touched off a whirlwind of political action before Tuesday afternoon. ... 
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November 2, 2002, 8:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
Since Labor quit Israel's ruling coalition government, prime minister Ariel Sharon has been widely expected to re-orient to the right for the sake of new ultra-nationalist partners to shore up his minority government of 55 - or else face an early election.
However, debkafile's political analysts note that Sharon's ... 
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October 30, 2002, 9:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
Ariel Sharon shows no sign of knuckling under to the demand from his resigned defense minister, the Labor leader Binyamin Ben Eliezer, for an early election next March or April. Labor's walkout from the unity government leaves Sharon with a minority government of 55 out of 120 Knesset seats instead ...
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October 20, 2002, 1:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
The stormy controversy that erupted over a Jewish farm set up near Nablus in memory of Gilead Zar, who died in a terror attack on a West Bank road, bares once again the deep seam running down the middle of Ariel Sharon's national unity government. This seam the prime minister ...
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October 13, 2002, 2:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon's visit to Washington on Monday, October 14, is officially described as being to coordinate the two countries' actions in the coming war against Iraq. However, certain voices, some coming from the Israeli foreign ministry too, are trying hard to force Sharon's talks in the ...
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October 9, 2002, 2:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
The first serious inter-Palestinian clashes since Yasser Arafat proclaimed his confrontation with Israel two years have not lightened Israel's security cares and dilemmas. While fighting each other in the Gaza Strip, the two Palestinian factions - his loyalists and the Islamist Hamas - are also vying for primacy as wielder ...
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October 5, 2002, 1:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
The nearly 2 million inhabitants of Greater Tel Aviv, like the rest of the country, feel entitled to credible information about any potential threats from Iraq. If Israeli officials believe American estimates and figures are exaggerated or wide of the mark, they ought to set the record straight. Their failure ...
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October 5, 2002, 12:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
In his radio address Saturday, October 5, President George W. Bush further sharpened the options in advance of his major address to the nation Monday, October 7. He said: "If the Iraqi regime persists in its defiance, the use of force may become unavoidable."
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October 3, 2002, 2:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Israeli writer and novelist David Grossman, in an article published in the New York Times Tuesday, October 1, lays out his theory that Israelis know only the side of their conflict with the Palestinians that Israel chooses to tell itself. He writes: "The story that now reigns nearly unchallenged ...
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October 2, 2002, 2:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
The British prime minister Tony Blair may have needed a Middle East slogan to get him through this week's Labor conference in Blackpool. But his simplistic message, delivered in a speech on October 1, drew derision in Jerusalem with a tinge of remembered bitterness over Britain's record in this region. ...
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September 28, 2002, 4:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
How come that, notwithstanding Israel's military might and resources, the Palestinians, after two years of warfare, are still able to buffet the Jewish state with terror and suicide massacres? How do they get away with willfully butchering civilians in the middle of the US-led global assault of terrorism? And why ...
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September 23, 2002, 4:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
The weathervane of US-Israel relations has begun to hover between fair and cloudy as the Bush administration's assault on Iraq approaches. debkafile's Washington and Jerusalem sources say the trouble is not related to Israel's isolation of Yasser Arafat in Ramallah - that episode is closely coordinated with the ...
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September 21, 2002, 4:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources point to the danger of Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein attempting to turn the tables on the American offensive against his regime by stealing a leaf from the Bush administration's newly- enunciated first-strike strategy.
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September 21, 2002, 4:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's military's Operation Absolute, which has flattened building after building in Yasser Arafat's government compound in Ramallah, is aimed at more than winkling out the 50 hardcore terrorist chiefs he harbors, or even retribution for the fresh wave of suicide terror he unleashed against Israel this week at the cost ...
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September 14, 2002, 2:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
Some of Israel's missile sites had their first airing in spring 2000, when space imaging Ikonos, the world's first commercial 1-meter remote sensing satellite homed in on the "Zakaria" Sedot Micha bases, 45 km south of Tel Aviv. debkafile's analysts note the timing of their photos' first release ...
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September 14, 2002, 2:32 PM (GMT+02:00)
US President George W. Bush and his top military and intelligence advisers are clearly convinced by the evidence in their hands that America faces an existential peril. One piece of evidence is revealed in the article on this page about the "Palermo Senator" container vessel, detained and searched at sea ...
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September 9, 2002, 2:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
Ariel Sharon's dozen years in the political wilderness - plus the bitter sniping suffered by his ten predecessors as Israeli prime minister - taught him some basic math: The best way to downsize your parliamentary opposition is to upsize your coalition government. Straight after his landslide election victory in February ...
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