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Israeli military chief gives unprecedented interview to Saudi media: ’Ready to Share Intel on Iran’
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A Saudi newspaper published an unprecedented interview on Thursday with the Israeli military chief, Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot. It marks the first time any senior Israel Defense Forces officer, let alone the chief of staff, has been interviewed by a media organization in Saudi Arabia, which does not have diplomatic ties with Israel.

In the interview to the Saudi online newspaper Elaph, Eisenkot called Iran the “real and largest threat to the region.” He said Israel and Saudi Arabia are in complete agreement about Iran’s intentions.

(Juste pour pinailler: qualifier Elaph de « newspaper » me semble très exagéré.)

Ynetnews Opinion - Despite alleged Israeli strikes, Hezbollah will keep building its arsenal...
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Article assez extraordinaire du terroriste Giora #Eiland (adepte de la « #doctrine_dahiya ») : une agression de plus d’une semaine contre le Liban aurait des conséquences « intolérables » pour Israël, de ce fait il faudra bombarder le Liban de manière si massive que les grandes puissances nous ... empêcheront de poursuivre....

A long war will cause intolerable damage to Israel’s military and civilian infrastructures.
 
The only way to ensure that the next war is short requires us to fight the state of Lebanon, not just Hezbollah. Israel can destroy Lebanon’s infrastructures and army within several days. Since there is no one in the world—neither the Lebanese nor Hezbollah, Syria or Iran, and of course Saudi Arabia, France, Russia and the United States—who wants to see Lebanon destroyed, it will lead to massive international pressure to reach a ceasefire within a week or less, and that’s just what Israel needs.

Et, au cas où il aurait surestimé le degré de compassion des grandes puisssances, le terroriste préconise de leur faire comprendre dès maintenant qu’il faudra stopper Israël au bout d’une semaine maximum, au lieu de leur promettre comme maintenant que l’état sioniste est capable de battre le Hezbollah...

Reaching such a decision in real time, when the conflict erupts, is insufficient. Israel should already start conveying this message, for two reasons: First of all, we will achieve deterrence and possibly prevent the next war since, as mentioned, no one in the world wants to see Lebanon destroyed. Second, if a war does break out in the end, it’s important that the Western states—at least the US—understand in advance that Israel chose this strategy having no other choice. Unfortunately, Israel is conveying the opposite messages.

About a week ago, at the end of the major military exercise in northern Israel, the defense minister and army chiefs conveyed the message that Israel is capable of defeating Hezbollah. That’s a mistake. Even if Israel wins, but the war lasts about five weeks like in 2006, we will all pay a huge price which we will have trouble living with.

Ynetnews Opinion - Demand to cancel #Iran deal is an Israeli spin
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In the current state of affairs, there’s absolutely no chance the nuclear agreement with Iran would be cancelled, and there’s no chance the United States would walk away from the agreement. There’s a simple reason for that: None of the countries and international organizations that signed the agreement have an interest in violating it.
 

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Allegedly, there’s a contradiction between the defense establishment’s stance and the prime minister and defense minister’s unequivocal demand that the US withdraw from the nuclear agreement signed by former US President Barack Obama. Trump promised to do just that during his election campaign, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is allegedly demanding he stand by his word.
 
Is there a difference of opinion here between the Israeli defense establishment and the political echelon? Not necessarily. From conversations with state officials, it’s quite possible Israel is stepping up its demand that Trump withdraw from the nuclear agreement as a leverage for pressuring him to accept Israel’s other, more important, demands in the Iranian context, which have to do with Iranian deployment of forces and presence in Syria. Israel is trying to pressure the American administration to boost its intelligence supervision of Iran and devise a military and diplomatic plan together with Israel for the day the nuclear agreement expires.

#Etats-Unis #Israel #Syrie #nucléaire

Ynetnews News - PM refutes fmr. dep. IDF chief’s PKK comments
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Mere hours after former deputy IDF chief of staff Yair Golan said he does not consider the Kurdish resistance movement PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) a “terrorist organization”, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stepped in to refute his claim in an attempt to head off a diplomatic crisis.

 
“#Israel objects to the #PKK and considers it a terrorist organization, unlike Turkey, which support a different terrorist organization: Hamas,” Netanyahu said.

Ynetnews Business - New app to crack down on illegal Palestinian West Bank construction
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Samaria Regional Council launches new communal watchdog app enabling settlers to report instances of illegal Palestinian construction of haphazard or permanent structures: ’We see illegal building of almost every type. Sometimes we are shocked by the audacity ,’ says council head Yossi Dagan.

#chutzpah #Israel #sans_vergogne

Ynetnews News - Major Canadian union joins #BDS
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Friends of Simon Weisenthal Center for Holocaust Studies President Avi Benlolo voiced his criticism of the decision, saying that “Unifor has proven that it supports an anti-Semitic movement of which no Canadian or member of Unifor will stand to profit.”
 
Members of the Canadian Jewish community also rejected the decision, stating that joining the BDS movement first and foremost hurts Palestinian workers .

#Israel #chutzpah #israël #palestine

Ynetnews Opinion - Pravda : Russia to continue backing Iran despite PM’s exhortations
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Analysis: After their meeting in Sochi last week, the Prime Minister recounts how he warned Putin Israel won’t stand idly by as Iranian presence looms near Israel. A new account of the meeting released by Pravda, however, paints a different picture. ’Netanyahu was close to panic, Putin stayed cool,’ reports the Russian paper.

#israel #Iran #Russie #Syrie

Ynetnews News - IDF troops detain 8-year-old Palestinian
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The boy’s mother, Amani, told B’Tselem that she asked a soldier to return her son, but he refused. “I was really scared and worried about Sufian,” she said. “I started crying and ran after the soldiers as they moved from house to house, to try and get them to let him go.”
 
While the IDF claimed that the boy was being brought to his parents, and that the whole incident ended within ten minutes, the boy’s mothers claimed that IDF soldiers refused to let him go before he identified the other boys who threw rocks and Molotov cocktails.

#Israel #enfants #Palestine

Ynetnews News - Soldier receives lenient sentence for sexual assault
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Military court sentences a soldier in the IDF’s intelligence division to only 2 months in prison for sexual assault, partially due to his contributions during his military service and display of remorse.