Zitat:Für ein heißes Land mit Wüstengebieten eine fragwürdige Entscheidung zumal sich die Frage stellt, welche Gegner der Israelis über so hoch entwickelte IR Aufklärung verfügen?!

Zitat:U.S., Israel To Negotiate Military Aid Extension

The pending 10-year military aid package would commit Washington to provide up to $40 billion in additional Foreign Military Financing (FMF) grant assistance to Israel, sources here say. It would automatically kick in at the conclusion of the current 10-year, $30 billion agreement signed in 2007 under President George W. Bush and would bind Obama’s successor to continued military aid to Israel

The current agreement elevated Israel’s annual grant aid from $2.4 billion to $3.1 billion, and Israeli officials expect the follow-on package to provide incremental boosts to nearly $4 billion per year.

Zitat:IDF calls surprise drill in tension-ridden north

The IDF launched on Tuesday a major exercise at the north of the country, calling up an entire division and some 2,000 reservists for the drill.


The IDF reportedly decided to hold the exercise in view of the sensitive security situation over the threats issuing from Lebanon and Syria. The exercise is intended to go on until the weekend.

Zitat: IAF kills Gaza terrorist linked to Eilat rocket

Terrorist named as Hitham Mashal, a rocket manufacturing expert and member of jihadist group operating in Gaza and Sinai.

Zitat:An Israeli Defense Forces soldier killed in Golan Heights
Wed May 22, 2013 7:41AM

An Israeli Defense Forces soldier has been killed while participating in an operation to clear a minefield in the southern Golan Heights.

The 19-year-old soldier, Roey Yisrael Alfi, was a member of the Engineering Corps. He was participating in an advanced training course near Moshav Yonatan when an old mine went off.

A senior army source said that the mine exploded for unknown reasons.
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Zitat:Israel Said to Review Requirements for More U.S. Weapons

Israel is re-examining its five-year military modernization plan to make the best use of the $3.1 billion in U.S. military aid it receives each year, in light of the threat posed by Iran and the Obama administration’s offer to provide additional advanced weaponry.

Zitat: US spills Israeli missile defense secrets

US government website reveals numerous highly sensitive details of launch site to be built for Arrow 3 system, crucial to Israel’s protection against nuclear threats

The details were revealed, apparently inadvertently, in a tender issued by the US Federal Business Opportunities website inviting bids from American defense contractors to build the $25 million installation. The tender contains over 1,500 pages of information, and includes classified information specifying that the launch site will be built at what it says is the Israeli Air Force base at Tal Shahar. It features diagrams showing four concrete-hardened launchers, each designed to hold six rockets.

Zitat:From a Hamas prisoner to a globetrotting Israel emissary

Gilad Shalit raises millions around the world as a UIA celebrity speaker, sharing his story of captivity

Shalit, who recently returned from a trip to South America, spent March and April touring Switzerland, Australia, and New Zealand, hopping from one Jewish community to another, beguiling audiences and raising millions in donations. While his trips are paid for by the UIA, Shalit himself has declined a salary and his associates said he says he’s doing it in gratitude for the state and the steep price it paid to ensure his release.

Zitat:Yesterday, 10:35
Israeli soldiers arrest a five-year Palestinian child

Israeli humanitarian organization B'Tselem has accused the army of the Jewish state of arresting a five-year old Palestinian child in the city of Hebron on the West Bank of the Jordan River. In the photo placed in the local media one can see a crying child surrounded by soldiers.
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Representatives of the humanitarian organizations emphasize that soldiers do not have the right to detain children under twelve years of age. "Security forces cannot arrest or detain children under 12 years of age, even if they are suspected of committing criminal acts, but must find other ways of cooperating with them", - an official statement of B'Tselem Director Jessica Montell says on this occasion. Five-year old Maswade confessed to the Palestinian police to throwing stones. According to him, he was aiming at a dog, and hit a car.
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Zitat:Air squadrons, tanks, artillery and naval units to go in $1.9 billion defense slash

Faced with no credible threat from a standing army and a massive national budget deficit, the IDF on Wednesday unveiled a series of proposed cuts and re-organizations which would slash career soldier positions, old tank and artillery units and even flight squadrons.

Zitat: The ground-based squadron guarding the Syrian border

With Wednesday’s alleged use by Assad’s forces of chemical weapons plunging the Syrian conflict to a new nadir, the Tammuz missile provides a vital line of defense on the northern frontier

Zitat:Artillery: Israel Changes Everything

March 21, 2014: Over the past few years the Israeli army has been changing its approach to artillery. This began in 2011 when Israel decided to replace most of its 155mm artillery with GPS guided rockets. Now it is training some of these rocket battalions to fire GPS rockets into inhabited areas.

Zitat:Israel Changes Everything [...] Now it is training some of these rocket battalions to fire GPS rockets into inhabited areas.