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Jerusalem Post
| 9 months ago
Panetta held a round of talks in Israel two weeks ago, and met with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Just a few days before his arrival, Netanyahu said in a television interview that he had not yet decided whether to...
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The Guardian
| 9 months ago
Lethal game of bluff The enthusiasm of Israel's prime minister and defence minister for an air strike on Iran appears to have united their country's defence and security establishment against them Editorial The war drums have been beating again in...
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War In Context
| 9 months ago
In 2006, we were sure that the economy would get caught up in a crisis and deep recession following the barrage of rockets on the north, which we feared would hit Tel Aviv...It did shift down a gear for one quarter, but it returned to its previous...
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The Herald
| 9 months ago
Israel's prime minister on Tuesday appointed a former internal security chief as his Cabinet minister in charge of civil defense, reflecting the serious concerns about a potential retaliatory strike if Israel decides to attack Iran's nuclear...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 9 months ago
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Tuesday, following sharp rhetoric from Israeli officials that has put financial markets on edge. Panetta, who visited Israel two weeks ago, told reporters at the Pentagon it was important that military action be...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
Former Knesset member and Kadima party member Avraham Dichter turned in his resignation letter from the party on Tuesday morning, leaving in his wake a trail of anger from other party members and questions about what his new position, home front...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 9 months ago
Israel 's prime minister on Tuesday appointed a former internal security chief as his Cabinet minister in charge of civil defense, reflecting the serious concerns about a potential retaliatory strike if Israel decides to attack Iran 's nuclear...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem August 12, 2012. Several prominent Israeli authors are demanding that Israel's prime minister not order an attack on Iran without permission from his...
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Israel National News
| 9 months ago
While Israelis leaders disagree on military response verse more sanctions, Ben-Eleizer expressed confidence in Israel's fortitude.
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International Middle East Media Center
| 9 months ago
He added that the Israeli talk about war indicates weakness saying that threats of a strike against Iran is all part of a psychological war-fare. Wahidi said the Israeli military could not defeat Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza adding that...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 9 months ago
The debate keeps heating up, while no one really has much to add to the well-known basic facts (see Ari Shavit for why yes, and Jeffrey Goldberg for why no both excellent writers, both have written other versions of these same articles many times in...
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The New York Times
| 9 months ago
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Tuesday named an old army friend from a rival political party as his new home front minister, amid growing concern here about preparedness for the response to a potential attack on Iran this fall. The...
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Voice of America
| 9 months ago
Israel has made a crucial Cabinet addition as tension grows with Iran over its nuclear program. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointed a new civil defense minister amid a heated national debate over a possible Israeli pre-emptive strike on Iran'...
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International Business Times
| 9 months ago
Articles As tensions between Iran and Israel intensified, the Haaretz daily reported that Israel is considering a strike against Iran over its nuclear program. While it's reported that Israel has upgraded its missile defense system, Prime Minister...
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The Guardian
| 9 months ago
Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu is rumoured to be close to ordering military action. Photograph: Pool/Reuters A former Israeli intelligence chief has been appointed the country's new minister for homeland security as speculation about a...
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AP Online
| 9 months ago
Iran (AP) — Iran's defense minister is dismissing Israeli threats against his country as psychological warfare.
The semiofficial Mehr news agency on Tuesday quoted Gen. Ahmad Vahidi as saying Israeli leaders are resorting to "...
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Israel National News
| 9 months ago
Even if the Israeli government decides to make such a foolish move, it will not succeed, and there will be consequences, said the Iranian spokesman.
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Israel National News
| 9 months ago
Speaking to Israel Army Radio, Dayan said that the threat of a military strike was essential for the success of the sanctions against Iran, and publicly doubting such a raid was counter-productive. In my opinion, the concerns over the consequences of...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
Iran on Tuesday said it was dismissing Israeli threats of an imminent attack against it, explaining that even some Israeli officials realized such a "stupid" act would provoke "very severe consequences." "In our calculations, we aren't taking these...
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The Guardian
| 9 months ago
Uriel Sinai/Getty Images In the past few days, the Israeli public has been hit by a blizzard of speculative articles suggesting a military strike against Iran 's nuclear sites is imminent. The talk is now of a timetable of weeks, rather than months...
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Israel National News
| 9 months ago
45 Reported News Brief 8/14/2012, Av 26, 5772 Russia: New US Sanctions Against Iran 'Overt Blackmail' Russia harshly criticized new U.S. sanctions against Iran on Monday, calling them overt blackmail and a "crude contradiction of international law,"...
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The Daily Star
| 9 months ago
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chose a former security chief on Tuesday as his new civil defence minister amid heightened public debate over a possible strike on Iran. Avraham Dichter, who has served as internal security minister and head of the...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 9 months ago
One day of Egyptian Army attacks on jihadists will change nothing, and few believe a persistent campaign to retake control of Sinai is about to begin. And even the good news about army activity in Sinai can contain bad news for Israel. There is...
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The Hindustan Times
| 9 months ago
Days after tightening the noose of international sanctions against Tehran, the Obama Administration has said there is still time and space left for diplomacy with Iran over its nuclear programme. "We regret that Iran has not yet made a strategic...
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The Independent
| 9 months ago
The global oil price spiked upwards yesterday as fears grew of a looming conflict between Israel and Iran and constraints on supply started to bite. Brent crude rose in trading by $2.16 to hit $115, the highest since May. Israeli newspapers reported...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
The United States Monday insisted it would not give up striving for a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear standoff despite a rising drumbeat of war speculation in Israel. White House spokesperson Jay Carney told reporters that Washington was...
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NOW Lebanon
| 9 months ago
The United States said Monday that its citizens can donate food and medicine to Iran without fear of prosecution after the heavily sanctioned nation was hit by twin earthquakes. President Barack Obama's administration has offered US assistance to...
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War In Context
| 9 months ago
The front pages of the four main Israeli dailies last Friday reflected what appeared to be a concerted campaign to create the impression that Israel is preparing itself to start a hot war with Iran sometime over the next 12 weeks, notwithstanding...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 9 months ago
A year ago , Mitt Romney's Israel Factor score was 7.4 and Barack Obama's was 5.5. What a difference a year can make in time and perspective: in our new survey for the Israel Factor , Barack Obama for the first time is leading over Romney.
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Reuters
| 9 months ago
Topics Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem August 12, 2012. For Israel to carry out a long-threatened strike on Iranian nuclear sites, it would have to overcome dissent within its governing...
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Israel National News
| 9 months ago
And, if Iran did respond, Iran does not have an unlimited number of missiles, Shalom said in an interview on Israel Radio. If, as expected, Lebanon, Syria, and Gaza begin firing missiles at Israel to support Iran, Israel will be able to stop all...
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MarketWatch
| 9 months ago
U.S. benchmark crude-oil futures rose in European trading hours, adding to gains from the Asian session, as supply jitters hit the market over rising tensions between Iran and Israel. Nymex crude for September delivery rose 62 cents, or 0.7%, to $93.
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AP Online
| 9 months ago
The contract fell 49 cents to end at $92.87 on Friday.
In London, Brent crude was up $1.56 at $114.51 on the ICE Futures exchange.
Brent's climb to three-month highs was seen spurred by declining crude output in the North...
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Ynet News
| 9 months ago
Israel bombed Syrian reactor According to foreign reports, the Israeli Air Force bombed the reactor in Syria 's Dir a-Zur region on September 6, 2007 under a veil of secrecy. Only some six months later US government officials announced that the...
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Israel National News
| 10 months ago
President Barack Obama are waging a full-scale war against the government of Binyamin Netanyahu as Israel prepares to launch a preventive strike against Iran's nuclear Holocaust program. "I have been a journalist since 1957," said veteran writer...
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Israel National News
| 10 months ago
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Jerusalem Post
| 10 months ago
Ben Hartman If the media are to be believed, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak are intent on attacking Iran's nuclear facilities this fall. In the meantime, the cabinet has expanded the prime minister's powers to push...
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Ynet News
| 10 months ago
Iran on His Mind 'Headlines worry me,' Olmert Photo: Ofer Amram Former prime minister says discussion surrounding military strike 'creating massive public damage,' notes that Israeli officials 'trying to stir up overblown drama' Boaz Fyler Olmert v.
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Globes Online
| 10 months ago
51, Lilach Weissman "All of the threats that are currently being directed against the Israeli home front are dwarfed by a particular threat, different in scope, different in substance, and therefore I reiterate that Iran cannot be allowed to have...
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Israel National News
| 10 months ago
The US and Israel agree that Iran cannot be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons...We are, nevertheless, at odds over the timetable in which to accomplish this goal.
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Israel National News
| 10 months ago
Netanyahu said that all of Israel's homefront security concerns are tiny compare to the threat from Iran...Netanyahu added that he had spoken with UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon over the weekend and asked him not to visit Tehran, as he is planning...
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Jerusalem Post
| 10 months ago
Israel Aerospace Industries/Reuters With the country's papers over the last few days full of reports of an imminent war with Iran, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday said goodbye at the weekly cabinet meeting to Home Front Defense Minister...
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Ynet News
| 10 months ago
Mark Israel Sellem Ministers to vote on dramatic amendments to government protocol which would enable PM to root out opposition to fateful decisions, delay implementation of approved decisions Attila Somfalvi Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is...
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Haaretz
| 10 months ago
The threat concerning the home front is dwarfed by another threat Iranian nuclear power," said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday morning at the start of the cabinet meeting. Netanyahu added that, nonetheless, every two weeks he convenes a...
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Globes Online
| 10 months ago
46, Globes' correspondent The cabinet will today vote on changes to cabinet procedures, which will broaden the prime minister's powers, giving him greater control over ministers' work. The 51-page document lists amendments drawn up Cabinet...
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The Daily Star
| 10 months ago
Iran has stepped up work to develop a nuclear warhead, Israeli newspapers said on Sunday, citing officials in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and leaked U.S...President Barack Obama, seeking re-election in November, to allow more time...
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Israel National News
| 10 months ago
Ziv said that the results of such a war, both in the short and long terms, would be in favor of Iran. In an interview on Israel Radio, Ziv said that the media was being controlled by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak,...
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Israel National News
| 10 months ago
49 Reported News Brief 8/12/2012, Av 24, 5772 U.N. Agency Embraces Iranian Terror Group A United Nations agency has announced cooperation with an organization supported by the Iranian government and that maintains close ties with the Islamic...
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Haaretz
| 10 months ago
As the dispute between Israel and the Obama administration over how to address the Iranian nuclear threat rages, a senior Jerusalem official has said Iran has made significant progress in assembling a nuclear warhead...The new intelligence was...
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United Press International
| 10 months ago
White House spokesman Jay Carney said Friday there is still "time and space" for U.N. sanctions on Iran's nuclear program. Asked about Israel's urgent assessment of Iran's nuclear ambitions, Carney said the White House and Israel are in agreement on...
