Ramat Hasharon, Israel, October 6 – Tensions over a proposed increase in military spending as part of the 2015 government budget have forced the Ministry of Defense and Israel Defense Force to seek revenue outside the standard military budget, leading ...
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Gaza City, September 30 – The bevy of supply restrictions facing residents of this coastal territory has taken their toll on various civil services, including paramedics, who, in the absence of dummies, must now resort to injuring people in order ...
Read More »IDF To Follow NY/NJ Model For Making Tunnels Impassable
Tel Aviv, September 20 – The congestion and delays inherent in the system of tunnels connecting Manhattan with New Jersey and the outer boros of New York lies at the center of a new Israeli strategy for neutralizing the threat of ...
Read More »Unit 8200: IDF To Cancel Disobedience Training
Tel Aviv, September 14 – A letter from a group of disgruntled intelligence corps reservists refusing further participation in duties that they claim treat Palestinians with unnecessary harshness has prompted a public outcry and caused the Israeli military to call ...
Read More »Terrorism Convicts To Be Sentenced To Moderate YouTube Comments
Jerusalem, September 7 – Israel’s High Court of Justice approved a draft law intended to impose harsher penalties on defendants convicted of terrorist activity, a bill that would condemn them to moderating the insipid, ignorant, spammy, or downright incomprehensible comments ...
Read More »UN-Approved Targeting System For IDF Just Turns Off
Tel Aviv, September 1 – Casualty figures from the latest round of violence between Hamas and Israel have led the United Nations to impose oversight on Israeli military targeting systems, requiring the latter to have a feature that whenever it ...
Read More »‘Unpopular Front For Liberation Of Palestine’ Not Causing Trouble
Tel Aviv, August 26 – Officials in Israel’s security apparatus are noting that in the ongoing conflict with Palestinian terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip, the Unpopular Front for the Liberation of Palestine has been silent. While Hamas, Islamic Jihad, ...
Read More »Hamas: Rocket Off Tel Aviv Coast Targeted Sea-Dwelling Jews
Gaza City, Gaza Strip, August 20 – A Fajr-5 missile struck the Mediterranean Sea off Tel Aviv today, in an attack Hamas says was aimed at Jews living in the water. It is but the latest move by the militant ...
Read More »On Iraq, Obama Vows To Restore American Weakness
Washington, DC, August 16 – President Obama took the case for a limited strike against ISIS targets to Congress this week, arguing that a contentious, politically fraught process an and uncertain outcome were the only way to ensure that no ...
Read More »Unused Grad Rocket Feeling Left Out, Inadequate
Gaza City, August 15 – GL-5678832, a Chinese- made Grad missile, is the only unit in its lot of 32 missiles to remain unused in the recent Hamas-Israel conflict, and is questioning its self-worth. “I don’t know what they think ...
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