Israel

WADING THROUGH THE SYRIAN LABYRINTH

May 22, 2013

The Syrian state and its population are being indirectly attacked by US/EU/NATO/UN; and directly by Israel, HERE and also HERE, by the autocratic dictatorships of the GCC-Gulf Cooperation Council: Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, UAE (mostly Sunni Muslims) in partnership with Turkey (secular), and by Al Qaeda plus a diversity of mercenary jihadists (by [...]

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General says Israel will smash Syria’s arsenals if Assad falls

May 22, 2013

Source: Reuters Israel is poised to attack Syria to prevent advanced weapons reaching jihadi rebels or Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon if President Bashar al-Assad is toppled, Israel’s air force chief said on Wednesday. But Major-General Amir Eshel, addressing a security conference, said his warplanes could be repelled by Syria’s formidable, Russian-supplied anti-aircraft systems – an [...]

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Syria Defending Itself from the Intrigues of Israel: Al-Qaeda, America, Gulf powers and Tel Aviv

May 21, 2013

Source:MTT The nation of Syria is surrounded by many hostile nations which are openly siding with al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist groups and the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA) which is a proxy of outside nations. In the past Turkey under Prime Minister Erdogan also tried to entangle Syria into a broader conflict because he knows NATO [...]

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US might step in for a Cyprus solution to appease Turks

May 20, 2013

Source: hurriyet President Barack Obama gave two messages to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan by hosting him in Blair House, a gesture that was last made in 1999.First, in view of the fact that Erdoğan’s Washington visit was only possible after a normalization process started between Turkey and Israel, Obama reiterated one more time that having good [...]

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‘Expect Israeli strikes on Russian arms shipment to Syria-Hezbollah’

May 17, 2013

Source: israel hayom U.S. officials tell The Wall Street Journal: Another round of Israeli airstrikes could target a new Russian transfer of Yakhont advanced anti-ship missiles in the near future • Russia moving more quickly than previously thought to deliver S-300 surface-to-air defense systems to Syria.• CIA Director John Brennan in Israel to coordinate policy. U.S. [...]

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Asia Is Becoming Israel’s New Frontier

May 14, 2013

Source: Forbes When we think of Israel, we usually think of the Middle East (its neighborhood), North America (its close ally the United States) and Europe (the long history of Ashkenazi Jews). Rarely do we think about Israel and Asia, even less about Asia as Israel’s new frontier. We don’t think of Asia as playing [...]

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Electronic Warfare : IDF’s teleprocessing corps C4i

May 10, 2013

Source: JP “I’m directing EW at the head. This is also a form of psychological warfare. I can engage in this and then deny it. It wrecks the functionality of the enemy,” the source added. These days, the idea of Israel engaging its enemies in a war, whether in near or distant arenas, without its [...]

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Israel has troops and tanks to the Syrian border in case of retaliation by Assad regime

May 5, 2013

Source: NY Daily News Two-thousand Israeli soldiers, backed by tanks, are on full alert at the Syrian border Sunday after an apparent airstrike by the Jewish state inside the war-torn country — but Israel claims it has no intention of beginning a ground incursion. “We have moved our best-trained people to the border with Syria [...]

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You can’t fight alone: The Middle East’s proxy war

May 5, 2013

Source: Ahram The year 2008 saw the first round of diplomatic talks between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Iran over the latter’s controversial nuclear activities. Five years on, the result of the equation remains zero, as Tehran insists on resuming its “peaceful” nuclear programme while world powers demand the total opposite. At present, the [...]

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U.S. Bulks Up to Combat Iran

May 2, 2013

Source:WSJ The Pentagon has redesigned its biggest “bunker buster” bomb with more advanced features intended to enable it to destroy Iran’s most heavily fortified and defended nuclear site. U.S. officials see development of the weapon as critical to convincing Israel that the U.S. has the ability to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear bomb if [...]

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‘Jordan opens skies for IAF drones flying to Syria’

April 22, 2013

Source: JP Jordan has opened two corridors of its airspace to Israeli Air Force drones seeking to monitor the ongoing conflict in Syria, French daily Le Figaro reported on Sunday, citing a Western military source in the Middle East. According to the report, Jordanian King Abdullah made the decision in March during US President Barack Obama’s visit [...]

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‘Israel seeks Turkish airbase to enable Iran strike’

April 20, 2013

Source: TOI When National Security Council head Yaakov Amidror arrives in Turkey on Sunday to discuss compensation for flotilla victims, he will also be seeking to lay the groundwork for the stationing of Israeli fighter jets in an airbase near Ankara, ahead of a possible strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, the Sunday Times reported. “Until [...]

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Israel ‘set to hit Syria rebels over arms’

April 18, 2013

Source: UPI Tension is rising on the Israel-Syria cease-fire line on the Golan Heights and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu says he’s ready to launch military operation to prevent the weakening Damascus regime’s chemical and other advanced weapons falling into Islamist hands. That heightens fears that the Jewish state is edging closer to getting dragged into the [...]

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Israel and the electronic war

April 18, 2013

Source: Middle East Monitor Despite the wide scale reaction caused by recent electronic attacks on Israel which targeted ministry websites and government facilities on the internet, it may be asserted that this attack is far from being electronic warfare of significant concern to the government and its strategic think tanks which work around the clock [...]

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By Way of Deception: Former Israeli Intelligence Operatives Now Working For Hedge Funds

April 18, 2013

Source: Forbes A company staffed with former operatives of Israel’s top intelligence agencies and founded with the help of the former head of the Mossad is being used by hedge funds looking for an edge in the financial markets. Kela Israeli Intelligence has increasingly become a popular service on Wall Street. The firm employs about [...]

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Operating in the Shadows: IDF’s Elite Combat Units

April 14, 2013

Source: JP IN THE shadows, away from the public glare, several elite combat units operate to safeguard Israel’s security. Some gather intelligence behind enemy lines, others are sent to secure a strategic site, form Israel’s first response to hostage situations, while still others rescue soldiers in trouble. Some units receive classified missions that will never [...]

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Syria’s Proxy War heats up as endgame inches closer

April 12, 2013

Source: BBC As Syria’s fragmentation gathers pace and the demise of the regime apparently inches ever closer, competition between outside powers backing one side or the other is heating up, and proxy wars over the country’s future are intensifying. The latest example is the attempt by al-Qaeda to put its stamp publicly on the Nusra [...]

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Syrian guerrilla fighters being sent to Iran for training

April 4, 2013

Editor’s Note: Secret/guerrilla warfare is fought on the basis of political ideal that expands into a war of fanaticism, a political religion. The issue is, rag tags militias lack discipline as observed and compared to regular military armies, however guerrilla fighters have high morale, they use all sense of their skills and intelligence,they must rely [...]

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Israel and Azerbaijan: unlikely allies?

April 2, 2013

Source: Guardian In the latest in a series of explosive reports on Israel‘s covert hostilities against Iran, one vigorously denied by both the Israeli government and Baku, Foreign Policy magazine has quoted anonymous US officials saying that Israel has secured access to airbases on Iran’s northern border through its well-nurtured defence alliance with Azerbaijan. “The Israelis have bought an airfield,” a [...]

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United Nations has a project codenamed “Syria – The Day After”

April 1, 2013

Source: Al Jazeera Here is what the main stakeholders in Syria are planning in the event of a major change in the conflict: United Nations UN planners have been looking at a range of options. They fear that if Assad is eventually defeated, there could be widespread retribution against his minority Alawite sect, and the swift [...]

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Energy Security: Israel’s navy gears up for new job of protecting offshore gas fields

April 1, 2013

Source: Reuters Israel’s huge new offshore gas resource offers its enemies an obvious target and gives its navy, long overshadowed by other branches of the Israeli armed forces, a big job that will require extra spending. On patrol boat 836, circling two gas platforms in choppy Mediterranean waters, Captain Ilan Lavi flipped through pictures of [...]

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Hundreds of Israeli Druze said anxious to join the fight against rebels in Syria

March 31, 2013

Source: TOI With rebel forces having consolidated control over much of Syria’s border with Israel, hundreds of Druze IDF veterans reportedly wish to cross the border into the war-torn country to defend their brethren against the anti-Assad forces that have attacked them in recent weeks. Members of the Druze community in Syria are seen as largely pro-Assad, [...]

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Israel’s fake rocks spy on Russian fleet

March 30, 2013

Source: Australian ISRAELI spying equipment has been found hidden in artificial rocks on an uninhabited island opposite the Syrian port of Tartus, where it was being used to monitor Russian naval movements. Three large espionage devices were discovered by fishermen on the tiny Ant Island near a naval base regarded by Moscow as an important strategic [...]

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With natural gas discoveries, Israel faces geopolitical tangle

March 29, 2013

Source: G&M Recent discoveries of massive offshore natural gas deposits, set to begin flowing in the coming days, are turning into a mixed blessing for Israel. The deposits are expected to provide Israel enough natural gas for decades and transform the country, famously empty of natural resources, into an energy exporter. Yet selling this gas [...]

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Battle for Syria : A “master plan” for the rebels to seize Damascus

March 27, 2013

Source: Time/AP The Arab official said there was a “master plan” for the rebels to seize Damascus. He and the diplomat spoke to the AP on condition that their identities and their nationalities not be disclosed because the operation was covert. Officials: Arms Shipments Rise to Syrian Rebels Mideast powers opposed to President Bashar Assad have dramatically [...]

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Israel Defence Forces planning for confrontation with Egypt

March 26, 2013

Source: MEM Israel Today newspaper has prepared a special report on the Arab armies in the Middle East; its title is telling; “Long Arm in the Region” is a reference to the Israel Defence Forces. It is claimed that the IDF is planning for a confrontation with Egypt. The report has been prepared by the [...]

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Golan Heights skirmishes risk dragging Israel into Syria civil war

March 25, 2013

Source: Globe and Mail Tt was one thing when four decades of quiet were shattered last fall by Syrian shells that strayed across the Israeli-Syrian frontier, but developments over the past few days on the Golan Heights indicate that Israelis may be forced to take defensive action to avoid being dragged into the Syrian civil [...]

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Israel prepares for Assad’s downfall, turns its attention to Lebanon

March 25, 2013

Source: Albawaba In light of the deteriorating security situation in Syria, Israel is now turning its focus to Lebanon, preparing to deal with its northern rather than northeastern neighbor, reported Israeli daily Haaretz Monday. “Hezbollah and Iran understand that [President Bashar] Assad’s fate is sealed, and they’re preparing for the day after,” Israeli military intelligence chief Major General Aviv Kochavi said earlier this month [...]

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Turkey takes a big leap forward over energy security

March 24, 2013

Source: National Last month I wrote how Turkey needed to rebuild constructive relations with its energy-rich neighbours. Two dramatic announcements later, and it seems to have done just that. But big obstacles still lie in the way of improving Turkish energy security: Baghdad, a Mediterranean island, and the Kremlin. On Thursday, Abdullah Öcalan, the leader [...]

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