Popular commentary in the U.S. in recent weeks has drawn attention to the very public bickering in Israel between former security/military leaders and civilian politicians. My guess is that few of the reports on the issue contain reference to the fact that this is a longstanding pattern in Israeli politics.
Reuters | Posted 03.11.2012
JERUSALEM, Jan 10 (Reuters) - A top Israeli military rabbi resigned on Tuesday after making comments that appeared to condone allowing ultra-Orthodo...
AP | Posted 01.07.2012
JERUSALEM -- The Israeli military says it opened fire at a group of militants planting explosives along Gaza's border with Israel. Gaza health officia...
The Guardian | Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem | Posted 09.10.2011
The family of Rachel Corrie, the US activist killed in Gaza while protesting against house demolitions in 2003, on Monday claimed the Israeli military...
Democracy Now! | Posted 05.25.2011
Israeli and Palestinian eyewitnesses say that Jawaher Abu Rahma, a Palestinian woman, died after inhaling tear gas fired by the Israeli military at a demonstration. We interviewed two people in attendance.
William Hartung | Posted 05.25.2011
Joe Klein of Time magazine has a new piece out this week indicating that after being largely dismissed during the Bush administration, "the military option is very much back on the table" with respect to Iran's nuclear program.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
JERUSALEM — An Israeli lieutenant colonel and one of his soldiers were convicted Thursday in the shooting of a bound and blindfolded Palestinian...
Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 05.25.2011
The Purim story has a special resonance this year: The Book of Esther marks civilization's first recorded repudiation of "Don't Ask Don't Tell."
Jonathan Pollak | Posted 05.25.2011
On a pitch black early December night, seven armored Israeli military jeeps pulled into the driveway of a home in the West Bank. soldiers, armed and possibly very scared, arrived to make an arrest.
Posted 05.25.2011
The Israeli military is considered one of the best in the world, and every citizen must serve in it in order to keep their citizenship. One of the ma...
Paul Korda | Posted 05.25.2011
The huge security operation to search for this allegedly missing individual underscores Israel's fears about the welfare of its soldiers. The Jewish state has gone to great lengths to secure the release of its soldiers - or even their corpses
AP | AMY TEIBEL | Posted 05.25.2011
JERUSALEM — Britain has revoked several licenses granted to British companies to sell weapons parts to Israel because of concerns over their use...
Robert David Jaffee | Posted 05.25.2011
Inside a firing simulator, someone says that I am shaking my head. I am, not because I am afraid of shooting but because I am convinced that nearly all of the guys are against me.
AP | IBRAHIM BARZAK and AMY TEIBEL | Posted 05.25.2011
Scroll down for video GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Israel seized control of high-rise buildings and attacked houses, mosques and smuggling tunnels as it ...
Brent E. Sasley | Posted 05.01.2012