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Fast Forward Top Israeli General: Iran Spending More On Foreign Wars
JERUSALEM, Jan 2 (Reuters) – Iran spends hundreds of millions of dollars annually to help allies fighting elsewhere in the Middle East and this outlay appears to be rising, Israel’s armed forces chief said on Tuesday. Lieutenant-General Gadi Eizenkot’s remarks coincided with almost a week of Iranian street protests that initially focused on economic hardships…
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Fast Forward IDF Chief Of Staff: We’re Ready To Share Intel With Saudis
DUBAI (Reuters) – The Israeli army’s chief of staff told an Arabic language online newspaper that Israel was ready to share “intelligence information” with Saudi Arabia, saying their countries had a common interest in standing up to Iran. Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot told the privately Saudi-owned Elaph in what it said was his first interview…
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Opinion Avigdor Lieberman Is Sorry-Not-Sorry for Comparing Iran Deal to Hitler Deal
The long-simmering tension between Israel’s generals and their politician bosses flared up in early August into a near-crisis in U.S.-Israel relations. It’s an almost comically complicated caper, so pay close attention. You can’t make this stuff up. It began as an attack on President Obama by Israel’s defense minister, Avigdor Lieberman, over last year’s Iran…
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Opinion What Israel’s Chief of Staff Is Worried About — No, It’s Not Iran
Two members of Congress from New York, a Democrat and a Republican, are calling on President Obama to provide Israel with massive, 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs, capable of penetrating Iran’s fortified underground nuclear facilities. They also want to send B-52 long-range bombers that can carry the huge devices. “Providing Israel with a stronger capability to destroy…
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Fast Forward Israel Names Lebanon Veteran as New Military Chief
Israel on Saturday announced the appointment of a new chief of staff of its armed forces, Major-General Gadi Eisenkot, who has spent much of his operational career confronting Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon. Eisenkot, 54, currently deputy to incumbent chief of staff, Lieutenant-General Benny Gantz, will take over in February when Gantz completes his four-year…
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Opinion Is Bibi Stalling Pick of IDF Chief to Promote Rightist?
More mystery and intrigue in the senior ranks of the Israel Defense Forces: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reported (Maariv, Haaretz) to be stalling the nomination of Israel’s next military chief of staff. His reasons are a topic of hot speculation, though the facts seem to speak for themselves. By law the nomination of a…
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Opinion Déjà Jew: IDF’s Top Guns Slug It Out for Top Spot
Fresh from the long war with Hamas in Gaza, tensely facing down simmering unrest in the West Bank and chaos on the Syrian border, Israel’s defense establishment is now bracing for what’s shaping up to be the most bruising confrontation of all: the choosing of the next chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces….
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