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1316 articles tagged "Israel"
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DEBKAfile
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September 2, 2002, 3:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
On August 14, after repeated delays, the Israeli security cabinet finally held a special meeting to review the country's preparedness for unconventional warfare. It decided to vaccinate 15,000 "first response" personnel against smallpox, as a first stage of a general vaccination campaign against a possible bio-weapons attack originating in Iraq ...
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August 21, 2002, 6:07 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's security and police authorities are keeping their aces well covered even after publicizing their coup on Wednesday, August 21. Saturday night, August 16, they captured a six- man cell of Jerusalemite Arabs, all bearing Israeli identity cards, who admit to complicity in executing 8 of the most devastating terrorist ...
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August 18, 2002, 6:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
When in the past Israel was beset with extreme economic distress, its finance ministers were to be found in Washington, lobbying hard for help - even in the form of symbolic investment for boosting the country's financial credibility and morale. Yet finance minister Sylvan Shalom has given up transatlantic travel, ...
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August 18, 2002, 6:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Bush administration, which only last month sought $200m in special counter-terror aid for Israel, has just suspended its allocation.
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August 12, 2002, 6:51 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli decision makers are divided over whether the newly elected Greek Orthodox Patriarch Irineos I genuinely means to exit the Palestinian loop or is putting on a manipulative act to win Israeli government recognition.
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August 7, 2002, 6:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's defense minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer may have started out with a small plan to do down Haim Ramon, his rival for the Labor party leadership, and perhaps steal the Likud prime minister Ariel Sharon's limelight. He has ended up writing a powerful recipe for Yasser Arafat's re-accreditation at a ...
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August 6, 2002, 4:31 PM (GMT+02:00)
The so-called "dirty" or radiological bombs are conventional devices that spread radioactive contamination over large areas. Last May, the US authorities picked up a suspected al Qaeda terrorist feared to be plotting to build and set off one of these devices. Abu Zabaydah, the only senior al Qaeda operative in ...
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August 4, 2002, 7:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Palestinian terrorist machine molded by Yasser Arafat executed seven terror attacks against Israelis in a single day, no doubt achieving a gruesome world record. Eleven people died - soldiers and civilians, Jews, Arabs, Druzes and two Filipina women. Close to 100 were injured; many will remain invalids. The question ...
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July 24, 2002, 5:28 PM (GMT+02:00)
Various politicians lost no time in capitalizing on the genuine shock, condemnation and remorse in Israel and overseas over the death of children and civilians in Monday's Israeli F16 warplane bombing of a residential district of Gaza City. More than one previous attempt to hit the Hamas's top gun, Salah ...
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July 6, 2002, 11:38 AM (GMT+02:00)
Accelerated diplomatic momentum is in the air, along with the apparent slowdown of Palestinian suicidal terrorist action against Israel. Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's two senior envoys, his political adviser Osama el Baz and intelligence chief Gen. Omar Suleiman, arrive Sunday, July 7, for talks in Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
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June 19, 2002, 5:08 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli troops rolled into Jenin, Nablus, Qalkilya, and Hebron Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, June 18-19, in retaliation for a terror attack that was shocking even by the standards of the continually escalating cycle of Palestinian suicide massacres of Israeli civilians. Eighteen commuters and the bus driver died, and more ...
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April 22, 2002, 4:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has appointed former President of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari, to head a team to probe events at the Palestinian refugee camp in Jenin during the eight days of Israel's fierce battles with Palestinian terrorists.
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March 25, 2002, 9:43 AM (GMT+02:00)
For the avowed purpose of giving the Zinni mission a chance, Israel pulled its tanks and troops out of Palestinian-ruled areas the day he arrived, March 14. Since then, raging Palestinian terror has claimed 23 Israeli lives and injured 218.
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October 20, 2001, 11:12 AM (GMT+02:00)
Israel did not dawdle after the Palestinians rejected its ultimatum. Thursday morning, October 18, one day after a Palestinian Popular Front hit team assassinated Cabinet Minister Rehavam Zeevi, Israel tanks, helicopters and ground troops were at the doors of the Palestinian West Bank towns of Jenin and Ramallah. They had ...
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March 7, 2001, 11:14 AM (GMT+02:00)
On the day the late Yitzhak Rabin's daughter was named deputy defense minister, a Jerusalem magistrate issued a 103-page decision that gave weight to some of the wildest conspiracy theories surrounding the late prime minister's assassination on Nov. 4, 1995. Justice Shulamit Dotan partially acceded to a request from Shin ...
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On June 26, Syria opened the Damascus-Golan road to Quneitra to civilian traffic for the first time since the Six-Day War of 1967. No announcement was made. The dozens of military roadblocks studding the 60 km high road connecting the capital with the Syrian part of Golan for 40 years ...
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