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1320 articles tagged "Israel"
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February 15, 2008, 12:32 PM (GMT+02:00)
Defense minister Ehud Barak said the entire national defense system is fully prepared and alert as heavy Israeli reinforcements, including homeland defense units, were rushed Thursday to northern Israel.
Lt. Gen. Gaby Ashkenazi gave these orders Thursday, Feb. 14, 24 hours after a bomb killed Hizballah's military commander Imad Mughniyeh ...
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February 12, 2008, 9:38 AM (GMT+02:00)
Replying to pressing questions at the Knesset foreign affairs and security committee, Monday, Feb. 11, defense minister Ehud Barak said he had directed the Israeli army command to prepare for a possible major assault in Gaza and for its consequences, but also to put forward alternative options.
Hamas spokesmen threatened ...
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February 11, 2008, 9:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
The targeted area, according to an intelligence warning, includes the towns of Beersheba and Kiryat Gath and the Lachish region.
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February 11, 2008, 5:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
Our Middle East sources report that prime minister Ehud Olmert and foreign minister Tzipi Livni have covertly given Cairo the go-ahead to at least double its 750-man Sinai police force. Our military sources report that Egypt raised the number of troops on its borders with Gaza and Israel to 2,350, ...
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February 11, 2008, 10:52 AM (GMT+02:00)
The domestic security agency's director, Yuval Diskin, warned the Israeli cabinet Sunday, Feb. 3, that the Palestinians exploited the chaos on the Gaza-Sinai border to smuggle in quantities of long-range rockets, anti-tank and anti-air rockets and high explosives for missiles. Hundreds of Palestinian terrorists have headed south into Sinai. According ...
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February 9, 2008, 10:03 PM (GMT+02:00)
Seventeen Palestinian missiles were fired by midday Thursday, Feb. 7, after Israeli Golani tank and engineering units with helicopter cover drove into northern Gaza in another bid to stem Palestinian cross-border missile attacks. They have since pulled back, while the missiles keep coming and Hamas broadens its targeting radius.
A dozen ...
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February 6, 2008, 10:32 AM (GMT+02:00)
Our Middle East sources report that prime minister Ehud Olmert and foreign minister Tzipi Livni have covertly given Cairo the go-ahead to at least double its 750-man Sinai police force. Although this is a breach of the Sinai demilitarization provision of the 1982 Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty, the prime minister did ...
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February 6, 2008, 10:31 AM (GMT+02:00)
After the Hamas-Jihad Islami terror machine was allowed to build up to formidable proportions, even a large-scale Israel military operation in the Gaza Strip will not easily stifle the missile and mortar campaign grinding down the Israeli population. However, the longer it is delayed, the harder it will be.
In ... 
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February 4, 2008, 12:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
Summing up the report the Lebanon War inquiry commission released Wednesday, Jan 30, chairman ex-justice Eliahu Winograd found grave failings in the management of the 34-day war of 2006 by Israel's political and military leadership alike.
Although the Israeli army is the most powerful in the Middle East, said the judge, ...
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February 2, 2008, 5:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
Amir Peretz, who resigned as defense minister after the Lebanon War, advanced the view that every part of Israel is potentially threatened. Hizballah fired nearly 4,000 rockets at northern Israeli towns and villages in the 33 days of the 2006 war. Peretz, who had been on the job three months ...
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January 30, 2008, 7:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
According to the ex-general, the IDF needed no more than a week or two to finish the Shiite Hizballah and end the 2006 Lebanon War - were it not for the ineptitude and hesitancy prevailing at the top of Israel's government and military and the muddled orders handed down to ...
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January 29, 2008, 9:43 AM (GMT+02:00)
A Palestinian asked by a border guard patrol to show his ID in the Atarot industrial zone Saturday, Jan. 26, wrenched open the door of the police vehicle, stabbed a guard and attacked his female partner. Two other guards in the car shot the assailant and wounded him seriously.
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January 29, 2008, 9:34 AM (GMT+02:00)
In an interview for Newsweek by Lally Weymouth, the Israeli defense minister said: We think that they [the Iranians] are quite advanced... working on warheads for ground-to-ground missiles... [and] that they probably have another clandestine enrichment operation beyond the one in Natanz.
debkafile: If they are "working on ... 
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January 25, 2008, 5:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and the US Raytheon, which developed the Patriot, are working on a cost-effective system that can intercept middle to long-range, low-cost rockets and missiles threatening civilian populations. Expected to be deployed not before 2012, the system dubbed "Stunner," was unveiled by Rafael on Jan. 22.
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January 24, 2008, 1:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
It was coordinated with the US Missile Defense Program, Israeli and US defense officials tied up the last ends during President George. W. Bush's visit last week. The successful test of a propulsion system for the dual-stage missile from the Palmahim base Thursday, Jan. 17, was a breakthrough. Western military ...
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January 23, 2008, 8:57 AM (GMT+02:00)
Gen. (res) Giora Eiland said the defense minister Ehud Barak had "blinked prematurely" when he authorized resumed oil and medicines shipments to the Gaza Strip from Tuesday, Jan. 22, only two days after the sanction was imposed. Hamas claims to govern the Gaza Strip and admits its accountability as such. ...
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January 23, 2008, 8:56 AM (GMT+02:00)
Internal security minister Avi Dichter warned the Israeli cabinet meeting in Jerusalem Sunday, Jan. 20, that without a new kind of military deterrence to halt the Palestinian missile offensive from Gaza, Sderot would break down. He asked why the chief of staff was absent from the session.
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January 21, 2008, 6:16 AM (GMT+02:00)
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on Palestinians for "an immediate cessation" of sniper and rocket attacks and "maximum restraint" by the Israeli military.
His appeal came after Hamas and its allies pounded Israeli civilian locations with 165 Qassam, 76 mortar rounds and two Katyusha rockets for four days. Israeli ... 
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January 19, 2008, 9:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
Party leader Avigdor Lieberman Wednesday, Jan. 16, made good on his promise to quit government if talks on "core issues" of the conflict were launched with Palestinian leaders.
He argued that Israel's conflict with the Arabs was never territorial, rejected the "land for peace" convention as a trap and urged ...
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January 18, 2008, 8:42 PM (GMT+02:00)
"We don't seek to fight in the Gaza Strip," he said, "but neither will we put up with these attacks. We will continue to target the terrorists with wisdom and boldness."
Olmert stressed there is no magic formula for stopping every missile. But the moment will come for the swinging pendulum ... |
