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<<Previous -- Table of Contents -- Next>> SHORT TAKES AND WEEKLY QUOTES Short
Takes HEZBOLLAH CONFLICT REARMING FO R WITH ISRAEL
- (Jerusalem) Hezbollah is rapidly rearming and reinforcing positions
in southern Lebanon in preparation for a new conflict with Israel. According
to an anonymous Hezbollah commander, the group has far more rockets
and missiles than during the Second Lebanon War in 2006. Meanwhile,
Israeli commandoes seized the Francop on Nov. 4. Israeli officials
said CANADIAN LAWYER EVICTED
FROM UN-(New York) Guards ejected an accredited Canadian commentator M.E. MILITARY PREPAREDNESS-(Jerusalem)
The!DF and the U.S. concluded their largest joint air defence exercise,
encompassing 1,400 personnel from each country. Israel and Jordan held
a joint army drill simulating the emergency medical response to an earthquake.
Israel is also negotiating the purchase of 25 F- MEDVEDEV SAYS RUSSIA
MAY BACK IRAN SANCTIONS-(Moscow) President Dmitri Medvedev
said Russia might back sanctions against Iran if the Iranians did not
take a "constructive position" on an international plan to
temporarily diminish their stockpile of enriched uranium. The statement
takes on
"I put forward a vision of peace that has united the vast majority of Israelis. In this vision of two states for two peoples, a demilitarized Palestinian state would recognize the Jewish state, now, what do I mean by a Jewish state? It is a state in which all individuals and all minorities have equal individual rights, Yet our national symbols, language and culture spring from the heritage of the Jewish people, And most important, any Jew from anywhere in the world has a right to immigrate to Israel and become a citizen. I want to make it clear: Any Jew, of any denomination, will always have the right to come home to the Jewish state. Religious pluralism and tolerance will always guide my policy."-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking at the General Assembly of Jewish Federations of North America. Netanyahu's trip to the U.S. also included a closed-doors meeting with President Barack Obama, who was slated to address the General Assembly until the Fort Hood massacre necessitated his cancellation. (Ha'aretz, Nov, 9) "Did Hamas militants not wear their uniforms because they were inconveniently at the laundry? What other reasons for wearing civilian clothes could they have had, if not for deliberately sheltering themselves among the civilians?... What reason could there possibly be for launching rockets from urban centers, if not shielding those rockets from counterattack? ... By disguising themselves as civilians and by attacking civilians with no uniforms and with no front, these paramilitary terrorist organizations attempt nothing less than to erase the distinction between combatants and noncombatants .on both sides.of the struggle ... "So the [Gaza] war had no defined place and was waged by unidentified [Palestinian] murderers, It justifiably felt like a change in the very nature of warfare, The goal .of this momentous transformation was to create a war of all against all and everywhere." - Professor of Philosophy Moshe Halbertal, one of the authors of the !DF's code of ethics, responding to the fundamental flaws of the Goldstone report in an article in The New Republic. Halbertal concludes that "the claim that Israel intentionally targeted civilians as a policy of war is false and slanderous." (The New Republic, Nov. 6) "[I]f three-quarters of the stories we've been reading are true, then it's clear Hasan was an Islamist ideologue of some sort and that the Army may have failed to Police its ranks properly out of a fear of appearing anti-Muslim. Those aren't impressionistic conclusions; they will either be proved true or false. And if true, something that couid have been prevented wasn't!'-Commentary editor Jonathan Podhoretz, calling for a clear-headed analysis of why U.S. Army Major Nidal Hassan, shouting "Allah Akhbar", allegedly attacked and killed thirteen U.S. soldiers and wounded over thirty more at the Fort Hood military base. (Contentions Blog, Nov, 9) "These soldiers' life's work is our security, and the freedom that we too often take for granted. Every evening that the sun sets on a tranquil town; every dawn that a flag is unfurled; every moment that an American enjoys life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness-that is their legacy ..."-U.S. President Barack Obama, delivering a eulogy at the memorial service for the victims of alleged shooter Major Nidal Hassan, in Fort Hood, Texas. (National Post, November 10)
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