Monthly Archives: July 2006

On Thursday, July 27th, an armed Palestinian approached a police checkpoint manned by Israeli policemen and national guardsmen. The armed man opened fire, seriously wounding two of the policemen. He was then killed by...

Think again. "This is more like the Spanish Civil War," says Daniel Seaman, an Israeli government spokesman. "What we are seeing is a series of conflicts that foreshadow a future world conflict, just as the...

Israel's military has identified the source of most Hizbullah rocket attacks against the Jewish state. Israeli military sources said Hizbullah has been using the southern city of Tyre for rocket strikes against Haifa and the...

A hard and fast rule of war is that the use of ground forces in urban combat is directly related to loss of life. In Gaza, the IDF has somehow learned to go in...

Four years ago, Israel launched Operation Defensive Shield in response to a spate of horrendous suicide bombings. The theater of operations was the West Bank, specifically the UNRWA refugee camp in Jenin, referred to...

Even with a war in Lebanon after withdrawal from the country's border six years ago and with ground troops forced to return to Gaza following evacuation from the territory 11 months ago, Prime Minister...

On July 14, 2006, an anti-ship missile fired from Lebanon struck the Israeli SAAR-5 Missile Corvette (http://www.israeli-weapons.com/weapons/naval/saar5/Saar5.html ) INS Ahi-Hanit. Reports are mixed as to exactly what kind of missile struck the INS Ahi-Hanit.Initial reports centered...

NATO does not plan efforts to organize a peace-keeping force along the Israeli-Lebanese border. NATO sources said the Western alliance lacks the political will as well as the capability to rapidly organize a peace-keeping force...

Although the Friday sermon of the mosques in Shefaram can be heard very well throughout this Arab city, not all the inhabitants like what they hear. The city's Christian inhabitants say that the sermon in...

Israeli security officials said Hizbullah has fired Iranian-origin rockets toward strategic facilities in the northern city of Haifa. Haifa contains a petrochemical plant, oil refinery and naval base. On Sunday, two rockets fell into a...