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1320 articles tagged "Israel"
DEBKAfile
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March 24, 2007, 1:36 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's strategic fiasco is rooted in the Olmert government's failure to pick up warning signals along the road. The outcome is a radicalized Palestinian government, with elements of which many world governments, including the US and Europe, are already keenly offering to work, regardless of the incoming Palestinian prime minister, ...
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March 23, 2007, 9:32 PM (GMT+02:00)
It is officially designated a large-scale exercise for 133 towns and villages from central Israel north of Tel Aviv to the south, to prepare the densely populated parts of the country for unconventional terrorist attacks, missile strikes and heavy missile assaults on the south.
At 1400 hours Tuesday, March 20, ...
DEBKAfile
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March 21, 2007, 10:22 AM (GMT+02:00)
The genuine terror alert in central Israel which led to their capture interrupted a two-day national home front exercise beginning Monday, March 20, 2007. The drill has been resumed.
DEBKAfile
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March 19, 2007, 10:40 PM (GMT+02:00)
The warning sirens wailed across central and southern Israel Tuesday, March 20 purportedly to prepare the most densely populated parts of the country for unconventional terrorist strikes and mega-attacks, rocket strikes and missile attacks on three fronts. The official announcement promised the incorporation of lessons drawn from the Lebanon war ...
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March 18, 2007, 10:10 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Hamas-Fatah government taking office Sunday, March 18, is more than a policy failure by prime minister Ehud Olmert and foreign minister Tzipi Livni; it is another milestone on the road to the collapse of Israel's Middle East positions at large, on a scale comparable to the setback to its ...
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March 16, 2007, 1:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
A military database disclosed in court that only 0.5% of the town of 30,000 was built on private Palestinian land. The data was presented to rebut the claim presented to court by the Israeli anti-settlement group Peace Now that 86% of the area stood on Palestinian land.
DEBKAfile
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March 16, 2007, 1:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile: Israel's two ruling parties, PM Ehud Olmert's Kadima and defense minister Amir Peretz' Labor are reviewing their options. The commission headed by Judge Winograd Tuesday contradicted a spate of leaks and affirmed that its interim findings will include judgments on the performances in the first week of ...
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March 14, 2007, 9:14 PM (GMT+02:00)
A 2,000-year old site spreading across 400 dunams sheds unique light on extensive Jewish life in the city after the Roman destruction of the Second Jewish Temple and Exile. Public buildings, a centrally-heated bath house and private residences were laid bare by an excavation for a new Jerusalem light railway.
DEBKAfile
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March 13, 2007, 9:22 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Golan, developed in partnership with US PVI and the Israeli Merkava tank program, can withstand armor-piercing machine gun and rocket fire as well as mines and medium IED bomb blasts. Designed for asymmetric (terrorist, guerrilla) warfare, the Golan was first tested in Sep. 2006, shortly after the Lebanon War.
DEBKAfile
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March 11, 2007, 4:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
The electorate has lost confidence in the government after its failure in the Lebanon war and wants a new leadership, he said Wednesday.
Netanyahu, a former Likud prime minister, accused prime minister Ehud Olmert of obstructing the state controller's inquiry into the conduct of the home front. 
DEBKAfile
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March 9, 2007, 12:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Controller Micha Lindenstrauss accepted the High Court ruling to postpone presentation of his findings and recommendations to a later date, after Attorney General Menahem Mazuz declined to represent him at the High Court hearing of the Home Front commander's petition against the Knesset session.
debkafile adds: Olmert's ...
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March 9, 2007, 12:12 PM (GMT+02:00)
The IDF was led to their hideout at Palestinian General Intelligence headquarters in the West Bank hub town by a Shin Bet tip. The 17 suspects, found in possession of a stock of explosive vests and pipe bombs, gave themselves up to the Israel force after an hour-long siege.
DEBKAfile
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March 5, 2007, 12:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile reports from US capital: Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert is anxious to catch up with the far-reaching American-Saudi diplomatic enterprises advancing in the Middle East. They cover the key issues of Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinians. Olmert's advisers Yoram Turbovitch and Shalom Turjeman will find these ...
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February 27, 2007, 8:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
They live in the neighboring village of Beit Ummar, near the West Bank town of Bethlehem. Levanon, father of three, died of knife and axe wounds inflicted when he was alone in a wadi between his community and the village.
DEBKAfile
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February 26, 2007, 10:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli Dep. Defense minister Moshe Sneh attributed the Daily Telegraph report to sources "unwilling to accept responsibility for diplomatic inaction on Iran's weapons program. They find it convenient to roll the ball into Israel's court," he said.
The British paper's Tel Aviv correspondent Con Coughlin quoted a senior Israeli defense ...
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February 26, 2007, 8:02 AM (GMT+02:00)
Mahmoud Abu Obeid, 24 assigned the bomber with blowing up the crowded Tel Aviv New Bus Depot Tuesday night and gave him the bomb. He was taken by surprise a few hours later when the Israeli unit sprayed his car with bullets in the center of the West Bank town ...
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February 24, 2007, 9:43 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Ometz association questioned Yaacov Ganot's fitness for the job because of a 13-year old corruption charge of which he was acquitted by the district and high courts. The High Court promises a ruling by Wednesday or Thursday.
Internal security minister Avi Dichter named Ganot, director of prisons as next ...
DEBKAfile
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February 23, 2007, 1:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
Retired Judge Vardi Zeiler, who led the state probe into a failed gangland case, told the media after submitting his report that corruption of the kind he found can undermine and destroy a police force and a regime. In this force, he said "they do whatever they like; couldn't care ...
DEBKAfile
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February 20, 2007, 9:54 PM (GMT+02:00)
Early reports that he was stabbed to death after driving his tow truck into the village are under investigation.
DEBKAfile
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February 20, 2007, 10:15 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Ometz association questioned Yaacov Genot's fitness for the job because of a 13-year old corruption charge of which he was acquitted by the district and high courts. The High Court promises a ruling by Wednesday.
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