Israel Defense Forces

Israel's Secret Staging Ground

Foreign Policy | MARK PERRY | Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Foreign Affairs, Mossad, Iran, Israel Defense Forces, Donald Lu, Alexander Murinson, Wikileaks, Sam Gardiner, Barack Obama, Ilham Aliyev, Joe Hoar, Azerbaijan, Oded Tira, Israel, World News

In 2009, the deputy chief of mission of the U.S. embassy in Baku, Donald Lu, sent a cable to the State Department's headquarters in Foggy Bottom title...

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Israel Successfully Tests Missile Defense System

AP | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Idf, Israel Defense Forces, Israel Missiles, Israel, Arrow Missile, Israel Missile Defense System Test, Israel Missile Defense Systen, Arrow Missile Radar, Video, World News

JERUSALEM -- Israel says it has successfully tested an upgraded radar for the Arrow missile defense system, developed with the United States and desig...

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Donations From Casino Owner Could Embarrass GOP Candidates

Reuters | Peter Henderson and James Pomfret | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Campaign Contribution, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Mitt Romney, Israel Defense Forces, Las Vegas, Campaign Donations, Sheldon Adelson, Las Vegas Sands, Video, Steve Jacobs, 2012 Election, Reuters, Macau, Newt Gingrich, Securities and Exchange Commission, Election 2012, Politics News

SAN FRANCISCO/MACAU, China, Feb 8 (Reuters) - It's never good for the candidate when a big donor runs afoul of the law - as President Barack Obama le...

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Cain's Mounting Problems With Mountains in Iran

Dorian de Wind | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Iran, Himalayan Mountains, Flying Over the Hump, Republican Presidential Debate, Herman Cain, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, China, World War II, Iran Nuclear Capabilities, Politics News
Dorian de Wind

Mountains have never kept our military from doing their job. But here comes Herman Cain, on at least two occasions in the year 2011, claiming that the mountains in Iran would "make it very difficult" to launch a military strike.

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Israel Holds On To $100 Million In Palestinian Taxes

AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Palestine Unesco, Israel Tax Withholding, Unesco, Israel Cabinet, Israel Defense Forces, Israel Withholds Money, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, World News

JERUSALEM — Israeli Cabinet ministers decided Monday to hold on to some $100 million in taxes owed to the Palestinians, an official said, despit...

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Escaping the Israel Ghetto

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel Defense Forces, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Haredi, World News
Alon Ben-Meir

Israel today is more isolated than ever before in the international arena, with friends and allies dwindling amidst a growth of delegitimizing efforts and rising anti-Semitism globally. It should be no surprise that many Israelis want out.

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Center Provides Home Away From Home For Expat Jewish Soldiers

Posted 06.16.2011

Read More: Israeli Army, Israel Defense Forces, Lone Soldier Center, Judaism, American Israeli Soldier, Lone Soldier Seder, Michael Levin, Passover, Religion News

By Michele Chabin Religion News Service JERUSALEM (RNS) When Passover begins on Monday (April 18) at sundown, Roxanne Fogelman, a 22-year-old Isra...

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Anti-Zionists Plumb New Depths: Cliona Campbell's Story

Ben S. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zionism, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Anti-Zionism, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Ireland, International Solidarity Movement, Cliona Campbell, World News
Ben S. Cohen

Cliona Campbell is a 19-year old student from Cork, in Ireland. But right now, Cliona lives in fear. And all this because Cliona spent a couple of months in Israel as a volunteer for the IDF.

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Insecurity Council

Ami Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: United Nations Security Council, Middle East, United Nations, Israel Defense Forces, Lebanon, Hezbollah, United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, Terrorism, Politics News
Ami Horowitz

Hezbollah, widely known as the most lethal terrorist group operating today has a de facto seat on the Security Council. The mechanism which allowed this super-terrorist organization a seat, was the election of Lebanon to the Security Council.

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Settler, Warrior, Healer

David Suissa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: West Bank, Ron Jager, Palestinians, Israel Defense Forces, Israel, Samaria, Jewish-Arab Cooperation, Ariel University, World News
David Suissa

Ron Jager looks the part of the diehard Zionist from the Bronx, where, in fact, he grew up. So how did this tough guy turn out to be a "kumbaya" promoter of Jewish-Palestinian cooperation in, of all places, the West Bank?

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A Guide Through Israel's No-One Land

Michael Winship | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel Defense Forces, Israel, Middle East, Second Intifada, World News
Michael Winship

That oh-so-relevant question of the right balance between wisdom and force is posed in one of a series of essays written by Henry Ralph Carse, a theologian and scholar living in Jerusalem.

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IDF Explanation

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israel Defense Forces, Political Cartoon, Idf, Relief Ship Attack, Cartoon, Politics News
Jeff Danziger

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In Defense of Israel

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat, Thomas Friedman, Amoz Oz, West Bank, Gaza Strip, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Hamas, Turkish Flotilla, Idf, Ehud Barak, World News
Andy Ostroy

There is no quick fix in the Mideast. And as demonstrated by the world's swift, harsh and uniform condemnation of Israel's actions Monday, Israel and it's people are once again alone in this not-very-Jew-friendly world.

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IDF, USA

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: US Israel Relations, Ship Attack, Israel Defense Forces, Politics News
Jeff Danziger

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Jew vs. Jew? Protests, Threats Reach Fever Pitch over Israel

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jewish Politics, Kach, Jewish Community, West Bank, American Jews for a Just Peace, Kahane Movement, Jews Say No, Stand With US, Jewish Voice for Peace, Israel Defense Forces, New York Jews, Americans for Peace Now, Meir Kahane, Zionism, Iran, Gaza, Camp Jabotinsky, Middle East, New Israel Fund, Saeb Erekat, Hebron, Gabi Ashkenazi, New York News, Violence, Friends of the IDF, Goldstone Report, Negotiations, Bibi Netanyahu, Protest, Diaspora, Palestine, Americans for a Safe Israel, Joe Biden, Idf, Waldorf-Astoria, Settlements, Palestinians, Palestinian Authority, J Street, Jews Against the Occupation, Settlers, East Jerusalem, Jewish Defense Organization, Israel, Israeli Apartheid Week, New York News
Michael Gould-Wartofsky

This week, New York City's Jewish community is riven by protests, counterprotests, and now, threats of Jew-on-Jew intimidation over the question of Israel and the Palestinians.

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Glaring Omissions in Goldstone Report

State Rep. Julie Hamos | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestine, Susan Rice, United Nations Human Rights Council, Goldstone Report, Illinois General Assembly, Israel Defense Forces, Iran, Israel Gaza Operation, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Chicago News
State Rep. Julie Hamos

Where is the repudiation of Hamas' refusal to recognize the State of Israel? How can Israel negotiate for a two-state solution when one Palestinian partner is bent on its destruction?

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Netanyahu's 'Shame' And The Fiction He Weaves

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Netanyahu, Goldstone Report, Politics, United Nations, Richard Goldstone, Israel Defense Forces, World, Hamas, UN High Commission for Human RIghts, Amnesty International, Palestinians, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Human Rights, Gaza War, Gaza, Operation Cast Lead, Benjamin Netanyahu, Nuclear Weapons, Israel, Israeli Prime Minister, Nancy Kanwisher, World News
Sharmine Narwani

Break down Netanyahu's speech to the UN and you have more fiction than fact, albeit fiction that has very adeptly been spun by successive Israeli governments into the lexicon of our political language.

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Israel Drops Gaza Probe, Calls Claims Hearsay

Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Gaza, Foreign Affairs, Israel Defense Forces, Gaza War Crimes, Avichai Mendelblit, War Crimes, Idf Investigation, Operation Cast Lead, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Idf, Israel, Israel Gaza Operation, Idf Probe, Advocacy, Gaza War, Israel Stops Investigation, Israel Says Its Hearsay, Gaza-Palistine, World News

Israel has officially ended its investigative probe into any possible misconduct by Israeli troops during the Gaza incursion known as Operation Cast L...

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President Obama Offers Iran "A Promise of a New Day"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: "A New Year/a New Beginning, The Tonight Show, Central Intelligence Agency, Iran-US Diplomacy, Obama's New Year Greeting to Iranians, Cia, John Bolton, US-Iran Relations, Shah Reza Pahlavi, Nowruz, Joint Chiefs of Staff. Obama's Message to Iran, Israel Defense Forces, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran, Benny Morris, Iran-American Relations, Avigdor Lieberman, Mohammed Mossedegh, Iranian New Year, Aipac, Zbigniew Brzezenski, David Broder, Thomas Friedman, Norman Podhoretz, American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Bibi Netanyahu, Obama's Message to Iran, John Foster Dulles, President Barack Obama, Charles Freeman, Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki, Idf, Jay Leno, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Israel, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Iranians, Shah, Savak, Obama's Statement to Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran, World News
Joseph A. Palermo

Obama's promise of a new day in U.S.-Iranian relations must be given the opportunity to bear fruit free from outside intervention.

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In the Shadow of Gilad Shalit's Captivity

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jerusalem, Terrorism, Ilana Teitelbaum, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Hamas, Idf, Gilad Shalit, Israel-Palestinian Conflict, World News
Ilana Teitelbaum

How can I go to bed at night knowing that kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit probably has no bed?

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Thoughts on the Death of Rachel Corrie

David Bromwich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lords of the Land, Gaza Strip, Gaza, Rachel Corrie, Israel Defense Forces, Idf, Israel, Israel Gaza, Idf Gaza, World News
David Bromwich

Six years ago Corrie was run over by an IDF armor-plated bulldozer, a machine sold by the U.S. to Israel, the armor put in place for the purpose of knocking down homes without damage to the machine.

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Israel To Shield Troops From War Crimes Accusations

Haaretz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel Protect Soldiers War Crimes, Israel Defense Forces, Israel War Crimes, Israel Soldiers War Crimes, Ehud Olmert, Gaza, Ehud Barak, Israel, War in Gaza, Gaza War Crimes, World News

The government on Sunday ratified a bill granting aid and support to Israel Defense Forces officers in cases where they face suits for alleged war cri...

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Is the Gaza Operation Really Just a Glorified War Game?

Russ Wellen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestine, Israel, Israel Defense Forces, Hamas, Gaza, Foreign Policy, World News
Russ Wellen

John McCreary, editor of AFCEA Intelligence's Nightwatch writes: "Haaretz reported on 5 January the Israel Air Force on Sunday struck and wounded Husa...

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Hamas Is Responsible for the Civilian Casualties in Gaza

Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Meet the Press, West Bank, Jeffrey Goldberg, Gaza, This Week, Israeli Offensive, David Gregory, Civilian Casualties, Hamas, Nizar Rayan, Shimon Peres, Hamas Rockets Israel, The Atlantic, New York Times, 1967 War, Israel, Al Jazeera, Mahmoud Abbas, Israel Ground Invasion, Israel Defense Forces, Fatah, Ehud Barak, Gaza City, Right of Return, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Israel Gaza Operation, Palestinian Territories, Israeli Airstrikes, Idf, Israel Airstrikes, World News
Mitchell Bard

By choosing tactical advantages over the safety of its citizens, the terrorist organization chose its military goals over the safety of its fellow Palestinians in Gaza.

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Photos From Israel That You Won't See on the News

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photos, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel Defense Forces, Jerusalem, West Bank, Gaza, Terrorism, Suicide Bomber, Palestinians, Hamas, Israel, Idf, Ilana Teitelbaum, Israel News, Baqad Huffingtonpost, Pictures of Soldiers Helping People in the Middle East, Gazans Greet Israelis, Photos You Don't See in the News Israel, World News
Ilana Teitelbaum

Israel is not media savvy -- we have installed warning systems and bomb shelters. No casualties means no photos, which means that many incidents aren't even covered by the media.

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