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Israeli army deputy chief draws rebuke for Holocaust comment
The Israeli army's deputy chief of staff drew rebukes from hawkish Israeli ministers Thursday for comparing pre-Holocaust Germany to trends in Israel today.

Speaking at a Holocaust remembrance day ceremony at a Holocaust study center in central Israel on Wednesday evening, Maj. Gen. Yair Golan said, "If there is something that frightens me in Holocaust remembrance, it is ghastly trends that took place in Europe in general, and in Germany specifically, 70, 80 and 90 years ago, and finding a sign of them here among us, today in 2016."

He added that Israelis on Holocaust remembrance day should "discuss our ability to uproot from among us buds of intolerance, buds of violence, buds of self-destruction on the path to ethical deterioration."
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/22/o...-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region
IN most countries, the political class supervises the defense establishment and restrains its leaders from violating human rights or pursuing dangerous, aggressive policies. In Israel, the opposite is happening. Here, politicians blatantly trample the state’s values and laws and seek belligerent solutions, while the chiefs of the Israel Defense Forces and the heads of the intelligence agencies try to calm and restrain them.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s offer last week of the post of defense minister to Avigdor Lieberman, a pugnacious ultranationalist politician, is the latest act in the war between Mr. Netanyahu and the military and intelligence leaders, a conflict that has no end in sight but could further erode the rule of law and human rights, or lead to a dangerous, superfluous military campaign.

But above all, the clash between the political and defense establishments can be summed up in two words: Benjamin Netanyahu. Many of the military and intelligence officers who have served under him simply detest him. “I told Netanyahu that a chasm of non-confidence had opened up between him and them,” Uzi Arad, a former national security adviser, told me. “He is the worst manager that I know,” said Meir Dagan, the former director of the Mossad. “I quit the job because I was simply sick of him.”
 
More weirdness ... PressTV-'Russia return of Israeli tank insult to Syria'
A top Lebanese politician has criticized Russia for returning an Israeli tank three decades after the Syrian army seized it during a battle with the invading regime, calling the move an “insult” to Syria.

The leader of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP), Walid Jumblatt, made the remarks in a message posted on his Twitter account on Monday, a few days after Russian President Vladimir Putin granted a request made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to return the tank.
Russia to Return Israeli Tank Captured 34 Years Ago - Breaking Israel News | Israel Latest News, Israel Prophecy News
Netanyahu raised the issue of returning the tank with Putin last month, after having received a request from IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot.
(a 34 year old heap of rusting junk? Whatever Putin got out of the deal is not said, but getting anything for a piece of c*@p is salesmanship worthy of Madison Avenue. )
 
and one in, one out ...
Lieberman sworn in as defense minister after stormy Knesset session - Israel News
Lieberman Sworn in as Defense Minister After Stormy Knesset Session ...
Outgoing environment minister: Netanyahu, wake up. Israelis don't want an extremist government - Israel News
Avi Gabbay delivers a searing indictment of the prime minister as he resigns from cabinet in protest of the appointment of Avigdor Lieberman as defense minister.

(Interesting that as Iraq and Syria are falling apart, Israel has too major internal political problems - plus the military does n't seem to like Bibi!)
 
Israel has homegrown Islamic State threat on hand - ARAB TIMES
Israel’s crackdown on Arab citizens trying to join Islamic State in Syria or Iraq or to set up cells at home have prevented the threat reaching the scale seen in the West, an adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a magazine interview.

About 18 percent of Israel’s population are Muslim Arabs, many of whom identify with the Palestinian struggle, although they seldom take up arms against the majority Jewish country.

However, a rash of defections to Islamic State-held areas of Syria and Iraq and trials of Israeli citizens for identifying with the militant group prompted President Reuven Rivlin to warn in January that “considerable radicalisation” was taking root among Israel’s Arab minority. Eitan Ben-David, head of the Counter-Terrorism Bureau in Netanyahu’s office, told the bi-monthly journal ‘Israel Defense’ that “more than a few dozen, but not more than 100” Israeli Arabs had joined Islamic State’s ranks — and some might return.
 
'Syrians view Israel as the defender of the Assad regime'

‘Syrians view Israel as the defender of the Assad regime’

The Jerusalem Post interviewed on Wednesday Susan Ahmad, a Syrian human rights activist from the Damascus suburbs and a reporter of Akhbar al-An, a Syrian site that documents ISIS crimes in the Middle East, to hear her opinions about the war and the parties involved.


Regarding the American policy toward the Syrian conflict, Ahmad fiercely criticized the American administration for ignoring the distress of the Syrian people.

"The behavior of the American administration is the utmost weakness and hypocrisy of humankind and is a mark of disgrace in the history of America, which paints itself as the champion of human rights. Unfortunately, while the US preaches for freedom and honor, it has not done enough to stop the fighting and put the killer (the Syrian president, Bashar Assad) on trial," Ahmad said.

"How could it be that after five years of bloody war, Israel is still considering whether to help the Syrian people get rid of their dictator?! Honestly, many Syrians view Israel as a mere defender and partner of Assad’s regime, claiming that it provides Assad’s forces military and political support that enables them to continue killing Syrians," Ahmad said.
 
More on the heap of junk that Israel wants back -
PressTV-Russia returned a ‘fake’ tank to Israel
An Israeli army tank captured by the Syrian army in 1982 and recently returned to Israel by Russia is “fake,” Israeli experts say.

A report by Zionist media network Arutz Sheva on Saturday quoted an Israeli general as saying that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fell “for a fake” during his visit to Russia last week along with the rest of “the nation.”

(Wrong heap of rusting metal! hahaha! Priceless ... :rofl:)
 
Former Shin Bet head ‘bursts myth’ on cyber hackers who attack Israel
Cohen listed Israel as facing three main cyber threats: computer network attacks, computer exploitation attacks and social media influence attacks.

Splitting them up, he said that while the first two are well-understood – they represent enemies trying to sabotage, spy-on or use Israeli computer networks – the public is less familiar with the last one.

He explained that terror and jihad groups have started to launch sophisticated social media campaigns to try to mislead and frame the way that a target country’s general public views developing events since so much of an average person’s understanding of the news now depends on social media.

Latching on to a similar idea, IDF Chief of Military Intelligence Maj. Gen. Herzi Halevi, who spoke to the same conference right before Cohen, described a dilemma for how aggressively to confront these campaigns on social media and whether to “plant” ideas of its own on social media to influence Israeli adversaries in the country’s favor.

Mainly, Halevi wanted to describe the purpose of the IDF’s cyber capabilities as targeted on “weakening enemy forces…and deterring them from war.”

(Trust no one!)
 
PressTV-Israel heads toward civil war: Ex-spy boss
Former Mossad director Tamir Pardo has warned that growing polarization in the Israeli society is leading up to a civil war.

Pardo’s Tuesday comments were his first public ones since he stepped down as the Israeli spy agency’s director earlier in the year.

He also broached on the subject of the so-called two-state solution, noting that an independent Palestinian state would be vastly beneficial to region-wide peace throughout Middle East, and that such a plan would ultimately be implemented.

"In my opinion, we won't be able to reach any agreement with any country beyond what we have now if we don't solve the Palestinian issue," he said.
 
robert99 said:
US and Israel sign record $38bn military aid deal
US and Israel sign record $38bn military aid deal
US president says the 10-year, $38bn arms deal will help bolster Israel's security in "a dangerous neighbourhood".
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It's also a green light from the US for Israel to continue the process of stealing Palestinian land through illegal settlements, to continue the blockade of Gaza, and make a two-state solution impossible. The US could have attached conditions to stop these policies to the aid deal, but chose not to. Nothing changes in the special relationship.
 
The Israeli Government must be worried now that Iran/Hezbollah/Assad are just the other side of the border. After the civil war is over in Syria and it looks like the US is going to be an unintentional ally by getting rid of IS, the cynical Israeli plan of letting others get rid of their enemies might well backfire.
Netanyahu explains Russia's interest in cooperating with Israel
 
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/New...s-two-citizens-for-joining-ISIS-in-Mosul.html
An Israeli court indicted a couple Thursday for joining the extremist ISIS group with their three young children.

According to the charge sheet, Wissam, 41, and Sabrine Zbeidat, 30, of the city of Sakhnin traveled to Turkey while on a family vacation in Romania in 2015. From there, they slipped across the border into neighboring Syria.

The indictment detailed that ISIS militants collected the family’s Israeli passports and brought the new recruits to the Iraqi city of Mosul, an ISIS stronghold. The indictment says Wissam Zbeidat underwent military and ideological training and was injured while fighting in the ranks of ISIS against the Iraqi army.

ISIS in Israel does not have widespread support, but the Shin Bet intelligence agency estimates that 50 citizens of Israel have traveled to Syria or Iraq to join the group in recent years.

The Zbeidat family eventually tried to leave ISIS because of the dangers of life in Mosul and the lack of schools, according to the indictment. The Shin Bet said family helped them pay smugglers to extricate them. They attempted to sneak back into Turkey 10 times, sometimes drugging their youngest daughter to prevent the child from crying and drawing the attention of authorities. When they finally succeeded, Turkish police arrested them.
 
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