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71 articles tagged "Middle East war"
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DEBKAfile
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January 21, 2002, 12:54 PM (GMT+02:00)
Since the Israeli army's massive takeover of the Palestinian town of Tulkarm on the West Bank before dawn Monday, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has, according to debkafile's military sources, advanced the timetable for his planned Waterloo, the battle he sees as his last heroic stand. Confined to Ramallah ...
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January 19, 2002, 7:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
Some broad strategy lines for the next stage of the US war against global terror are indicated in the special analyses appearing on this page. The most important, according to debkafile's intelligence sources, is a major military and political maneuver aimed at fashioning a US-ledMiddleEast-PersianGulf equivalent of the ...
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January 19, 2002, 12:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's exclusive military sources reveal the hitherto unknown fact that an Israeli submarine took part in the capture of the Palestinian arms smuggling boat, Karine-A, on January 3. Its part in the operation was to bring naval commandos belonging to the crack Israel naval Shayet 13 unit up ...
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January 11, 2002, 1:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
No obvious linkage appeared between President George W. Bush's words in the Oval Office Thursday, January 10, and Yasser Arafat's pronouncements in Ramallah. After sending visiting foreign statesmen off with earnest assurances that he was making every effort to halt Palestinian terrorism, Arafat turned to his staff and said in ...
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January 8, 2002, 12:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
Egyptian foreign minister Ali Maher said Monday night, January 7, that the "conflicting reports coming from Israel" on the Karine-A seizure arouse increasing doubts. In particular, he questioned Israel's assertion that the ship's course was set for the Palestinian Authority in the Gaza Strip via the Suez Canal. Maher repeated ...
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January 4, 2002, 1:07 PM (GMT+02:00)
Friday afternoon, January 4, Israeli chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Shaul Mofaz, flanked by Navy commander, Maj.-Gen Yedidya Yaari and Air Force commander Maj.-Gen Dan Halutz, called an unusual press briefing to announce the seizure of the 4,000-ton Palestinian arms freighter, Karine-A freighter Thursday night. As they spoke, Israeli frogmen ...
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December 31, 2001, 8:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
The war America has declared on terrorism is inching closer and closer to the Middle East. The Bush administration is counting on Ariel Sharon for a firm hand at Israel's helm. The new Labor leader will be strongly advised not to rock the government boat in Jerusalem, whatever this or ...
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December 15, 2001, 8:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
The US truce envoy, Anthony Zinni, quickly understood that his chances of brokering a Palestinian-Israeli ceasefire were nil as long as Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat refused to lift a finger against Palestinian terrorists. On the assumption that the Palestinian Authority was on the verge of collapse, Zinni was pressed into ...
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December 15, 2001, 1:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's roundup of terrorists in Palestinian areas has gone into top military gear since Palestinian terrorists killed 10 Israeli bus passengers going into the West Bank settlement of Immanuel on December 12. That attack prompted a Sharon government turnabout in its attitude towards Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Authority, from ...
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December 6, 2001, 8:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Palestinian may try last-resort maneuvers, but he cannot escape the joint American-Israel sword poised over his head. Neither can he hope for any world leader to reach out and rescue him. Israeli foreign minister Shimon Peres and his dwindling pro-Oslo adherents may try, but they will do so in ...
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December 4, 2001, 11:07 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Israeli tanks that halted their progress into the West Bank Palestinian hub town of Ramallah early Tuesday just 200 meters short of Yasser Arafat's headquarters were carrying out their orders with fine precision. They were told to surround, hem in, pin down and ground the Palestinian Authority chairman and ...
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December 2, 2001, 12:32 PM (GMT+02:00)
Sunday morning, as Israelis held their breath for the Sharon government to stop the hideous cycle of terror peaking Saturday night at the Jerusalem pedestrian mall, Palestinian terrorists struck again. Snipers shot dead Professor Baruch Singer, a scientist at the Nahal Sorek nuclear reactor, who was driving his jeep on ...
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December 1, 2001, 12:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli defense minister Binyamin bin Eliezer, accompanied by his deputy, Dalia Pelosof-Rabin, called on US envoy Anthony Zinni Friday night for what was described as an urgent meeting. A call of this nature on a Friday night is most unusual in Israel. That - and the fact that the minister ...
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November 26, 2001, 9:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
In a sign of the times, retired US Marines General Anthony Zinni has been put in command of American Middle East peace diplomacy for the next two weeks. His landing in the region coincided with the US Marine landing in Afghanistan.
DEBKAfile
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November 9, 2001, 1:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
"There are responsibilities that come with being the representative of the Palestinian people," the national security adviser pointed out. "And that means to make certain that you do everything you can to lower the level of violence, everything that you can to root out terrorists." Those sentences are interpreted by ...
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October 31, 2001, 11:28 AM (GMT+02:00)
Two Palestinian security men were killed and one seriously injured Wednesday night in Qalqilya in a fierce firefight with Israel troops in the town. Their deaths brought to six the total of Palestinian terrorists killed in a day of intense Israeli counter-terror operations on the West Bank. Another ten wanted ...
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October 22, 2001, 11:24 AM (GMT+02:00)
US secretary of state Colin Powell did not get very far in his attempts from Shanghai to convince Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat that this time Israeli minister Ariel Sharon means business. He was no more successful in persuading Sharon to pull Israeli troops out of the seven Palestinian towns invaded ...
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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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October 6, 2001, 2:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
King Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz returned home from his enforced exile in Geneva last Thursday, September 27, mending the rift in the Saudi royal house by lining up with his half-brother, Crown Prince Abdullah's refusal to grant Washington the use of military bases for attacking any Muslim power.
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September 19, 2001, 11:44 AM (GMT+02:00)
In the middle of his war of terror against Israel, the Palestinian leader was brought low and his violent methods fortuitously exposed and discredited worldwide by a savage terrorist attack against America. He came begging for a lifeline from... his victims. Inexplicably, Sharon extended it to him by accepting his ...
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