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DEBKAfile
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April 28, 2008, 7:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile publishes here for the first time details of the Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' master plan for wrecking Israel's 60th anniversary celebrations. The project is called the "2008 Return"
Its highlights are disclosed here with debkafile's comments. The Palestinian leader has circulated guidelines for three million ...
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April 28, 2008, 10:39 AM (GMT+02:00)
Two security guards, Shimon Mizrahi, 53, from Bat Hefer and Ellie Wasserman, 51, from Alfei Menashe, were shot dead Friday morning, April 25, at the Nitsanei Oz industrial park on the junction between Highway 6 and the Netanya Road opposite the Palestinian town of Tulkarm. A large security force crossed ...
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April 25, 2008, 10:15 AM (GMT+02:00)
For the third time in 10 days, the Palestinian Hamas demonstrated Saturday, April 19, it was capable of breaking through the Gaza-Israeli border barrier. Two bomb jeeps and one armored personnel carriers were used to ram through to the Israeli side of the Kerem Shalom goods crossing; a second APC ...
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April 23, 2008, 7:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
Half a dozen Hamas raiders cut through the Gaza border fence on April 9, attacked the Nahal Oz oil terminal in Israel and murdered two workers, Oleg Lipson and Lev Cherniak. IDF chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Gaby Ashkenazi decided April 21 to relieve Lt. Col Burns of his command ...
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April 23, 2008, 9:30 AM (GMT+02:00)
Early Friday, April 18, Israel's housing ministry invited tenders for the construction of 52 homes in Elkana and 48 at Ariel - both opposite central Israeli towns - to accommodate "natural growth." Later, the defense ministry announced permission for the Palestinian Authority to open 20 civilian police stations in the ...
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April 23, 2008, 9:24 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report that the fierce battles on both sides of the Gaza-Israeli border barrier raging Wednesday, April 16, attest to further security deterioration on Israel's southwestern border. This was first demonstrated on April 9, when Palestinian gunmen cut through the barrier to reach the Nahal Oz ...
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April 16, 2008, 8:18 AM (GMT+02:00)
Former OC Central Command and ex-defense ministry Dir.-Gen Ret. Gen. Shraga Biran said Friday, April 11, that Israel's security problems will not be solved through defensive operations. In an unusually outspoken diatribe against current government policy by an apolitical military strategist, Biran warned that this defensive posture would lead inexorably ...
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April 13, 2008, 9:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
The proposal by senior Palestinian negotiator Yasser Abed Rabbo put forward Wed Feb. 20 to copy the Kosovo example if Israel continued to mark time in talks for a Palestinian state was quickly knocked down by his colleagues, but eyed with interest by Israel.
Tuesday, prime minister Ehud Olmert and ... 
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April 11, 2008, 8:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
Arcadi Gaydamak, who provoked the government by his holiday camps for distressed Israelis under rocket fire in the 2006 Lebanon War, is taking a leap into national politics. He hopes his Social Justice faction will enter parliament on the backs of defectors from other parties, starting with lawmakers who defected ...
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April 11, 2008, 1:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
Members of the elite Egoz unit were attacked by Palestinian gunmen in southern Gaza early Wednesday, April 9, on an operation to halt the gunfire plaguing Israeli farmers working their fields. The Palestinians fired RPGs and autonomic rifles. Israel struck back with an air strike which killed one gunman and ...
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April 9, 2008, 8:55 AM (GMT+02:00)
Three Qassam missiles from Gaza exploded on open ground south of Ashkelon early Monday, April 7, as an Israeli military force tackled an armed Palestinian band trying to cross the border near Netiv Ha'asara north of the Gaza Strip. Palestinians directed mortar fire at the Israeli force from within the ...
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April 8, 2008, 9:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
National Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said Monday, April 7: "An Iranian strike on Israel would result in an Israeli response that would devastate the Iranian nation." On a visit to the national defense exercise's situation room, Ben-Eliezer warned: "An initial strike on Israel would see hundreds of missiles hit us...
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March 30, 2008, 3:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives in Israel over the weekend, before the Arab Summit is due to open in Damascus. She will meet Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Her purpose and that of the concessions she has demanded of Israel is to make it worthwhile for Abbas to ...
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March 23, 2008, 10:10 AM (GMT+02:00)
This is reported in the American Defense News. The expanding Palestinian and Lebanese Hizballah's missile threats to its southern and northern air bases have persuaded Israeli's Air Force to consider switching its procurement plans from 100 US F-35A stealth jets to the F-35B Short Takeoff and Vertical Landing (STOVL) version, ...
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March 19, 2008, 2:24 PM (GMT+02:00)
Tehran is bent on avenging the death of its top terror tactician Imad Mughniyeh who was struck down by a bomb planted in his car in Damascus Tuesday, Feb. 13. Even before the high-ranking Iranian military investigation team, headed by Gen. Ghassem Soleimani, chief of the IRGC's al Qods Brigades, ...
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March 16, 2008, 6:12 PM (GMT+02:00)
Syrian militlary intelligence, the main subversive arm of the Bashar regime in Lebanon, has launched a campaign in minor Syrian, Lebanese and Persian Gulf media to blacken the pro-Western prime minister Fouad Siniora as an agent of the Israeli Mossad.
In a tale planted in various websites, blogs and small ... 
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March 16, 2008, 9:06 AM (GMT+02:00)
Several missiles landed in Sderot causing damage. No immediate reports of casualties. The salvoes from Wednesday night, March 12 to Thursday midday came after five senior Palestinian terror commanders were killed in clashes with Israeli forces.
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March 15, 2008, 12:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
The annual intelligence report submitted to the Israeli government Sunday, March 9, predicted grave dangers to Israeli security in the coming year. However, even in the short term, debkafile's military and Middle East sources report the Israeli army, police and security forces are on guard for stormy events ...
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March 14, 2008, 9:40 PM (GMT+02:00)
The foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, has refused to comply with the Jerusalem district's court injunction to sign a document affirming whether or not the Palestinian Authority is entitled to immunity as a sovereign entity against suits for damages filed by victims of terror.
The suits were filed a large group ... 
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March 12, 2008, 12:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's counter-terror sources reveal that just four days before a single Palestinian killer murdered 8 Mercaz Harav students in Jerusalem on March 6, two Palestinians were frightened away from another Jerusalem yeshiva, Porath Yosef. The pair were challenged on March 2 by armed security guards on the door ...
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