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DEBKAfile
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October 11, 2007, 11:55 AM (GMT+02:00)
Dep. prime minister Haim Ramon proposed Monday, Oct. 8, ahead of the prime minister's address to the opening of the Knesset's winter session, that Israel reject the Palestinian principle of the "right of return" (of the 1948 refugees) and offer instead the yardstick of "compassion and mercy."
Last week Ramon floated ...
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October 10, 2007, 7:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
Earlier, debkafile exposed reports that the Winograd panel will not finger the prime minister in its final report on mishandling of Lebanon War were baseless.
The false reports were deliberately disseminated Monday, Oct. 8, the day before prime minister Ehud Olmert faced a fraud squad interrogation on his ... 
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October 10, 2007, 3:44 PM (GMT+02:00)
No one was hurt by the four-missile salvo, one of which exploded 90 meters from the town's western houses. Also attacked Sunday were Sderot and a number of kibbutzim bordering on Gaza by four Qassam missiles and 12 mortar shells, which damaged a house in Kerem Shalom.
debkafile's military ... 
DEBKAfile
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October 5, 2007, 3:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
While Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas was immersed this week in dead-end dialogue with Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert, in obedience to the United States and European powers, the Hamas applied the finishing touches to a single integrated armed force by merging its armed branches with the former Palestinian Authority ...
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September 30, 2007, 9:45 AM (GMT+02:00)
The same day saw the Jewish pilgrimage festival of Succoth, prayers on Temple Mount on the third Friday of Ramadan and mass attendance at the funeral of former Chief Rabbi Avraham Elkana Shapira on the Mt. of Olives opposite the shrine,
Thousands of police were called up to guard jam-packed places ...
DEBKAfile
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September 27, 2007, 9:53 AM (GMT+02:00)
This step is in line with the government's declaration last week to declare Hamas-ruled Gaza hostile territory. A senior Palestinian banking source says if more Israeli banking institutions follow this lead, Gaza's banks will shut down.
DEBKAfile
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September 26, 2007, 11:14 AM (GMT+02:00)
AG Menachem Mazuz has found grounds for suspicions that a friend bribed Olmert, who was then minister of industry, labor and commerce, by selling him a luxury apartment at a discount of half a million dollars below its market value in return for favors on illegal building permits.
DEBKAfile
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September 25, 2007, 4:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
It was decided Sunday, Sept. 23, at the Israeli government meeting in Jerusalem, as a gesture to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in honor of the Muslim Eid al Fitr which ends Ramadan. The security cabinet convened later to approve the list of Palestinian members of Fatah to be released.
The decision ...
DEBKAfile
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September 25, 2007, 10:31 AM (GMT+02:00)
At the state ceremony marking the 34th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, Barak said the battle against terror goes on, but we will prevail. The fighters of the present generation are the equals of their fathers.
The IDF's deterrent strength and its will to win are the best guarantee ...
DEBKAfile
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September 24, 2007, 6:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
A Palestinian from the West Bank town of Nablus, employed in a Tel Aviv restaurant, led Israeli Shin Bet security forces to the hiding place of a bomb belt in Tel Aviv. Thursday, the suicide bomber was captured with his Hamas controler in the Beit Ein Ilma camp in Nablus ...
DEBKAfile
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September 22, 2007, 7:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Israeli security cabinet's decision Wed. Sept 19 paves the way for the cutoff of supplies, including electricity, fuel, water to the 1.5 million Palestinians of the Gaza Strip which was seized by Hamas in June. Condoleezza Rice said that for the US, Hamas is indeed a hostile entity as ...
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September 18, 2007, 4:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military experts conclude from the way Damascus described the episode that the Pantsyr-S1 missiles were a letdown because they failed to down the intruders and therefore leave Syria and Iranian airspace vulnerable to hostile intrusion.
Such information on the Russian weapons systems sold to both countries is ...
DEBKAfile
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September 17, 2007, 10:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
Four of the new recruits were seriously injured, two critically, from shrapnel and blast. One of the Qassams exploded in an empty tent in the Zikkim facility north of Gaza; a second outside the mess tent full of soldiers on their last day of basic training. Jihad Islami and the ...
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September 10, 2007, 8:37 AM (GMT+02:00)
This statement came Wednesday, Sept. 5, from Israel's defense minister at meeting of security chiefs after a special defense cabinet session on ways to halt the Qassam missile barrage from Gaza.
debkafile's military sources say the first part of the operation has begun. Wednesday, Sept 5, Israeli forces were present ...
DEBKAfile
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September 10, 2007, 8:35 AM (GMT+02:00)
For all its five-year plan, Israel's armed forces are prevented from launching effective offensive action to destroy the upgraded Palestinian missile infrastructure in Gaza.
debkafile's military sources report: The Jihad Islami chief Mohammad al Hindi recently brought back from Tehran dozens of Iranian and Hizballah artillery experts who ...
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September 10, 2007, 8:35 AM (GMT+02:00)
Members of the unit were disguised as Hamas Executive Force operatives when they snatched Mawash al Qadi Saturday, Sept. 8. He was driving with his family in the southern Gaza town of Rafah when his Subaru was stopped by a roadblock manned by the Israeli troops. They pulled him out ...
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September 7, 2007, 11:27 PM (GMT+02:00)
A large explosives manufacturing facility was blown up in the Balata camp Tuesday night and the premises of Hamas and Fatah-affiliated al Aqsa Brigades in the Balata camp raided.
debkafile: The Balata operation was part of a comprehensive Israeli sweep of Hamas and Jihad Islami West Bank infrastructure which, ... 
DEBKAfile
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September 7, 2007, 1:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military experts conclude from the way Damascus described the episode Wednesday, Sept. 6, that the Pantsyr-S1E missiles, purchased from Russia to repel air assailants, failed to down the Israeli jets accused of penetrating northern Syrian airspace from the Mediterranean the night before.
The new Pantsyr missiles therefore ... 
DEBKAfile
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September 5, 2007, 8:35 PM (GMT+02:00)
The warning was relayed to Cairo in the last 24 hours. debkafile's military sources disclose that the message means Israeli armed forces are standing by for an order to recapture the Philadelphi route running along the southern Gaza border with Egypt.
The "new situation" does not refer to ... 
DEBKAfile
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September 5, 2007, 2:54 PM (GMT+02:00)
Chief of staff Lt. Gen. Ashkenazi okayed budgeting Monday, Sept. 3, for the introduction of hundreds of heavy "Tiger" armored personnel carriers based on Chariot tank chassis for the infantry. New Chariot-4 tanks and those in use will be upgraded with new active anti-missile defense systems.
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