Yossi Melman
By Yossi Melman
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Israel News Behind the Uproar Over Israeli Reservists Who Refuse To Spy on Palestinians
At a recent high-tech conference at Tel Aviv University, all eyes were on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon as they took their turns in the spotlight to stress how important it was for Israel to remain at the frontlines of science and technology. But less conspicuously, two middle-aged men were sitting…
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Opinion Hamas Has Nothing To Lose — and Why That’s So Dangerous for Israel
As the invading Israeli Defense Forces are consolidating their control of the border areas of Gaza, there are several important questions worth addressing. What are Israel’s military tactics? What is Israeli strategy? What are Hamas’s and do the two sides have an exit strategy in case events get of control? The IDF troops consist of…
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Israel News What We Know — and Don’t Know — About Israel’s Prisoner X2
Israelis discovered early this month, to their surprise, that in one of its prisons there is a second Prisoner X held in complete secrecy. He is been dubbed X2 in the Israeli media. The various security agencies have already started accusing one another of leaking the case. The sheer existence of Prisoner X2 was considered…
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Opinion Hassan Rowhani’s Election Is Game-Changer for Iran, the West — and Israel
Israel’s government is trying to downplay the results of Iran’s presidential election, but the fact is that Hassan Rowhani is immensely different from the departing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Immediately after the elections results were announced in Tehran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the international community must not be tempted to relax the pressure on Iran…
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News Mossad Tries To Avoid Entangling Iran Jews
We discovered recently that Israeli intelligence operatives have been active inside Iran, engaged in secret and dangerous missions aimed at stopping that country?s nuclear program. Although no Israeli government spokesman has confirmed such activities, our sources say that Israelis ? not Iranian dissidents or other paid mercenaries ? carried out the assassinations of at least…
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Breaking News Olmert Hints at Israel’s Suspected Role in Sudan Air Strike
Outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert hinted on Thursday at Israel’s suspected role in an air-strike that reportedly hit a convoy of arms smugglers as it drove through Sudan toward Egypt in January. “We operate everywhere where we can hit terror infrastructure — in close places, in places further away, everywhere where we can hit terror…
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Breaking News Hezbollah Terror Chief Imad Mughniyah Killed in Damascus Blast
The Lebanese-based guerilla group Hezbollah said Wednesday that its deputy leader Imad Mughniyah was killed Tuesday evening in a bomb blast in a residential neighborhood of Damascus, and accused Israel of responsibility for the explosion. “With all pride we declare a great jihadist leader of the Islamic resistance in Lebanon joining the martyrs… The brother…
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