Israel under Threat from all Sides
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Lt.-Col. Avital Leibovich,
the head of the international media division of the Israeli Defence Force
(IDF), told CBS News that the Israeli military now needs to deal with several
fronts, where in the past they have had only one.
Leibovich
said, in a regional environment altered by the "Arab Spring,"
The use of civilian populations as fronts for military operations, is one of the most difficult developments.
"Basically we can see a phenomenon which is becoming stronger and stronger
in the recent region in which civilians serve as human shields. We've seen it
in
Quote of the Week:
“Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for
speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being
correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know
it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the
truth is still the truth.” - Mohandas
Ghandi
Export of
a New Libyan ‘Democracy’
Fifty Libyan Muslim Brotherhood
mercenaries arrived in the Gaza Strip from
Anti-Israel
Schizophrenia of Academia
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Why
Must Israel Tell about her National Security Plans?
Israel has
refused to reassure President Barack Obama that it would warn him of a
pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear infrastructure. Obama was rebuffed when US
Defence Secretary Leon Panetta wanted an unshakable guarantee that Israel would
not carry out a unilateral military strike against Iran's nuclear
installations, suggesting that Israel no longer plans to ''seek Washington's
permission'', sources said. Alarmed by Mr Netanyahu's noncommittal response, Mr
Obama reportedly ordered the US intelligence services to step up monitoring of
Israel to glean clues of its intentions. (Why is it OK for the United States to
spy against Israel? This ‘friendly country is still holding Jonathan Pollard in
prison for providing Israel information, which THE ‘ally’ supposed to share!)
Israel Curbing Foreign anti-Israel Political
Funding
The Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved
a bill that would limit donations by foreign governments or international
bodies such as the United Nations or European Union to 20,000 shekels, or about
$5,200, annually.
Israel Paid
Syria $100 Million for Golan?
Israel paid Syrian
President Bashar Assad’s grand-uncle $100 million for the Golan Heights before
the Six-Day War in 1967, said Dr. Mahmoud Jame’, a former close friend to
assassinated Egyptian president Anwar Sadat. Dr. Mahmoud Jame’ said Sadat was
briefed on the deal.
Only 2-3 Months Left for Military
Option
The
intelligence reaching
Too Many Empty Reaffirmations
Vice President Joe Biden stressed
President Barack Obama's commitment to Israel and the continued support of the
US during a fund-raiser in Detroit. Biden spoke at the Yeshiva Beth Yehudah
Dinner, in front of hundreds of supporters of what is touted as the largest Jewish
school system in the state. Tickets started at $250 each.
Food for Thought by Steven Shamrak
There is nothing more delusional as belief in a notion of political
friendship. All countries are looking for their own interest, forging temporary
military, political and economic alliances. Israel must be particularly aware
of it, considering history of the noxious treatment Jews received from others,
and pursue its own national interests, as any sovereign country should, in
securing the future of the Jewish people.
Kenya PM asks Israel for help fighting terrorists
Kenya's prime minister is seeking
Israel's support in stopping reprisal terror attacks by an al-Qaida-linked
militant group Kenyan troops are pursuing in Somalia. Israeli security forces
are among the best in the world in dealing with terror threats. Kenya last
month sent hundreds of troops into Somalia to pursue al-Shabab, whom it blames
for attacks and kidnappings in Kenya.
Why would Britain Care?
Britain is heading for a potential
rift with Israel over plans for legislation designed to curb foreign funding of
so-called human rights and civil society organisations that are mainly critical
of government policy. Matthew Gould, the British ambassador in Tel Aviv, has
already taken the unusual step of warning Ofir Akunis, the architect of the
bill, and a Knesset member in Mr Netanyahu's ruling Likud Party, that the
measure would reflect badly on Israel. (In a current bad economic environment
one would think the UK would be happy to reduce its ‘foreign aid’)
Declining Number
of Israelis who Enlist IDF
According to statistics
presented by Major General Orna Barbivai, head of the IDF’s Manpower
Directorate, by the year 2020 about 60% of the Israeli population will not be
serving in the army. The data for 2011 indicate that as of today, every second
citizen in Israel does not enlist in the IDF. At the same time, the IDF expects a sharp
increase, about 25%, in the number of religious girls who opt for full army
service in the coming year. (Disillusionment
and the absence of direction and political will to achieve the Jewish national
aspiration could be major reasons for this decline.)
Look Who is Talking:
"No regime can survive by killing or jailing… No one can build a
future over the blood of the oppressed." - Turkish Prime
Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, signaling that he is fed up with Assad's response to the
uprising - Doesn’t
Turkey still kill and jail Kurds, while occupying their land? Turkey has not
come clean and ‘forbids’ other countries to even acknowledge the genocide of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks
and Kurds between 1915 and 1923.
Jam, Spoof and Hack Iran First
by Spencer
Ackerman
Iran’s nuclear
program inspires perennial rumours of an Israeli
air raid. No one really knows if one is coming. But if it does, it won’t be a
conventional bombing run.
A combined squad of Heron drones, manned electronic
attack planes from a unit called the Sky Crows and fighter jocks in F-15s and
F-16s would execute the attack on
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