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1329 articles tagged "Israel"
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October 6, 2009, 9:50 AM (GMT+02:00)
Against Israel's release of 20 Palestinian women-prisoners, Hamas will hand over Friday, Oct. 2, a "sign-of'-life" video-tape of Israeli soldier Gilead Shalit who has spent more than three years in captivity. Both Jerusalem and Hamas spokesmen stressed that this was no more than a small step on a long road ...
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September 28, 2009, 6:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
In an impassioned speech to the UN General Assembly Thursday, Sept 24, prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu said the United Nations' most important mission today is to prevent "the tyrants of Tehran" from acquiring nuclear weapons, because the marriage of religious fanaticism and weapons of mass destruction would endanger the world. ...
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September 26, 2009, 3:10 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report that dozens of low-flying Israeli Air Force warplanes coasted over the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip for two hours Monday, Sept. 21 in a show of strength unparalleled since 100 IAF jets practiced long-distance flights in June 2008 against Russian-made S-300 anti-missile systems based in Greece.
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September 19, 2009, 2:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
The blood libels beloved of anti-Semites through the ages echoed clearly from the unsupported op-ed article freelance reporter Donald Bostrom ran in the Swedish Aftonbladet newspaper last week.
All the same, debkafile's political sources say the diplomatic crisis which has since blown up between Israel and Sweden would ... 
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September 14, 2009, 11:46 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Israeli military has been ordered to investigate the cause of the F-16 crash in which Lt. Assaf Ramon, 20, promoted posthumously to captain, lost his life on a training flight in battle formation 80,000 ft. over the Hebron hills. The pilot of the second jet taking part in the ...
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September 14, 2009, 8:43 AM (GMT+02:00)
The second Israeli cabinet-level discussion in the last few days on the Iranian threat - nuclear and regional - took place Monday, Sept. 7, in the inner cabinet, on the heels of a recent security cabinet meeting which surveyed Israel military and homeland security preparations for a missile attack from ...
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September 10, 2009, 10:06 AM (GMT+02:00)
Our sources confirm as unfounded the media claims that prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu traveled secretly to Moscow Monday, Sept. 9 for talks with Russian leaders. He did not leave the country at all, either for Moscow or any other destination.
The erroneous accounts of his putative trip have caused the ... 
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September 3, 2009, 8:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Obama administration signalled a new mood of compromise on settlement construction just ahead of the key talks in New York between Israel's defense minister Ehud Barak and prime minister's adviser Yitzhak Molcho and US envoy George Mitchell Tuesday, June 30.
debkafile's political analysts attribute this change to ...
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August 14, 2009, 7:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
After a witness reported seeing an Israeli soldier being bundled into vehicle by two men near Ben-Gurion airport Thursday, Aug 13, security roadblocks were thrown up and backed up traffic for miles in an expanded area of central Israel delimited by Kesem Exchange on Highway 6 and the Modi'in- Jerusalem ...
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August 14, 2009, 12:40 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile reports the Hamas delegation headed by Dr. Mahmoud a-Zahar exited Gaza through the Rafah crossing Saturday Aug. 8. Egyptian intelligence officers escorted them on their journey to Cairo for urgent consultations on an undisclosed subject. The Hamas leaders may proceed next to Damascus to confer with politburo ...
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August 10, 2009, 10:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
Almost a week after Israeli prime minister held his first talks with US president Barack Obama at the White House, last Tuesday, May 18, some of the fog obscuring their content is finally beginning to clear.
The White House was forced to rebut a major misapprehension, that the US president would ... 
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July 26, 2009, 9:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report a serious setback in Israel's defenses against Iranian ballistic missiles. Thursday, July 23, the newly upgraded Arrow II missile defense system, poised for its first long-range test at the US Pacific range off the central California coast, could not be launched because of "interceptor ...
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July 24, 2009, 1:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
Sunday, July 19, Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu sharply rejected the US demand handed to Israeli ambassador Michael Oran to halt construction of Jewish estate at the Shepherd's Hotel site in Jerusalem.
Netanyahu stressed that hundreds of Arab residents have purchased apartments in the west of the city without difficulty and ... 
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July 24, 2009, 1:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
Southern Nevadans were warned last week that 62 warplanes would take off twice a day from Nellis Air Force Base, home of 414th Combat US Training Squadron northwest of Las Vegas in the latest 11-day Red Flag exercise.
A large number of Israeli F-16C fighter-bombers from IAF Squadron 110 are taking ... 
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July 19, 2009, 2:54 PM (GMT+02:00)
While Israeli prime minister appeals for peace talks with the Palestinians, Saudi and Egyptian rulers backed from Washington pursue a plan that will end up giving Hamas legitimacy and backstage veto power over peace talks with Israel.
Netanyahu needs to state where he stands on this scheme. 
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July 17, 2009, 12:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli president Shimon Peres and prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu have begun exchanging messages with Syrian president Bashar Assad through a new channel of communications opened in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, debkafile's diplomatic sources reveal. When Assad arrived in Baku Wednesday, July 8, he found a message waiting ...
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July 7, 2009, 9:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Dolphin-class attack submarine is reported to be the first Israeli naval vessel to transit the Suez Canal in four years on its way from Haifa to Eilat last month. According to debkafile's military sources, the move indicates a strengthening of the informal Israel-Egyptian-Saudi pact forged in recent ...
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July 6, 2009, 4:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Israeli government's decision Sunday, June 28, to extend Meir Dagan's service as director of Israel's external intelligence service, the Mossad, until the end of 2010 raised some dust in political circles - especially after his deputy resigned in a huff over the long wait for his turn at the ...
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June 30, 2009, 4:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
Despite his pledge to keep security considerations uppermost in his dealings with the Palestinians, Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu is buckling under pressure from the US administration aimed at softening Israel up ahead of Middle East peace talks.
This pressure turned Netanyahu's first official visits to Rome and Paris sour. He ... 
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June 28, 2009, 3:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
In less than a month, aides in Washington and Jerusalem have transmuted the head-on clash forecast for the first meeting between Binyamin Netanyahu has Israel's prime minister and US president Barack Obama Monday, May 18, into a warm, amicable encounter, debkafile's political analysts say.
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