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	AP Wire \| 10/31/2006 \| Israel defense minister eyes Arab plan
		Israel reacted skeptically at the time, rejecting an addition by Saudi Arabia requiring Israel to recognize the demand to take back Palestinian refugees from the 1948-49 war that followed creation of the Jewish state, as well as their descendants - an estimated 4 million people.
		Israel has offered compensation instead, maintaining that demanding a "right of return" is a way of undermining the Jewish character of the state and destroying it from within.
		Israel's official position has been that the "road map" is the only plan on the table now, but Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev indicated the Saudi plan could be the basis for talks.
	www.thestate.com /mld/thestate/news/world/15889048.htm (637 words)

	Israel defense minister eyes Arab plan - Boston.com
		Israel's defense minister said Tuesday that a dormant Saudi initiative for Mideast peace could be a "basis for negotiation," indicating a new possibility for talks with the Palestinians after years of stalemate.
		TEL AVIV, Israel --Israel's defense minister said Tuesday that a dormant Saudi initiative for Mideast peace could be a "basis for negotiation," indicating a new possibility for talks with the Palestinians after years of stalemate.
		Israel reacted skeptically at the time, rejecting an addition by Saudi Arabia requiring Israel to recognize the demand to take back Palestinian refugees from the 1948-49 war that followed creation of the Jewish state, as well as their descendants -- an estimated 4 million people.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/10/31/israeli_troops_kill_3_hamas_militants (749 words)

	newsobserver.com \| Israel's defense minister promises more attacks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Israel's top ministers were to discuss expanding the army's ground operation at a meeting later Monday, while thousands of reserve soldiers trained for the possibility that they will be sent into Lebanon to participate in the battle, now 20 days old.
		It was unclear whether the senior ministers would approve a broader ground assault at their meeting, defense officials said on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
		Israel apologized for the deaths and promised an investigation, but said Hezbollah had fired more than 40 rockets from Qana before the airstrike, including several from near the building that was bombed.
	www.newsobserver.com /110/story/466231.html (1169 words)

	Israel Proves Gaza Deaths Caused by Palestinian Terrorism
		Jerusalem----June 13.....The Israel Defense Minister, the IDF Chief of Staff and IDF head of ground operations declared at a Tel Aviv press conference this evening that Israel was not responsible for the deaths of innocent civilians on a Gaza beach last Friday.
		Israel Maj.-Gen. Yoav Galant had stated earlier that the Israel Defense Forces had evidence that it wasn't Israel artillery that hit the beach in Gaza.
		In related news, the Israel Defense Forces urged journalists with Israel or dual citizenship to leave the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, "due to severe security alerts regarding the intent of hostile parties to harm journalists with Israeli citizenship," the army said in a statement.
	www.israelnewsagency.com /gazaisraelidfhamas480613.html (1249 words)

	CNN.com - Israel threatens Hamas leader - Jan. 16, 2004
		Israel is targeting and might kill Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin, Israel's deputy defense minister said Friday.
		Israel has assassinated a number of Hamas commanders -- but killing the Islamic movement's spritual leader, respected even by many Palestinians who do not support Hamas, would be a dramatic escalation and likely provoke revenge bombings.
		Israel insisted it forced a drop in attacks by arresting as many as 30 potential suicide bombers.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/01/16/israel.yassin.ap (1038 words)

	Israel Defense Minister Favors War Probe, Israeli Defense Minister Splits With PM and Supports Independent Inquiry Into ...
		Breaking with the prime minister, Peretz told a meeting of his Labor Party on Friday that he would support a so-called judicial inquiry fully independent of the government.
		On top of having his defense credentials questioned, he faces a rebellion from Labor colleagues who say he has betrayed the party's social agenda by supporting welfare spending cuts to help finance the war.
		But Cabinet minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, a party rival of Peretz, said that while there is an "earthquake" in the party, no one else is prepared for now to assume the party leadership.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/09/01/ap/world/mainD8JS9FTG0.shtml (743 words)

	Worldandnation: Defense minister says Israel should not raze settlers' homes
		JERUSALEM - Israel will transfer Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip to the Palestinians intact, the defense minister decided Thursday, reversing an earlier plan to destroy all homes during this summer's withdrawal.
		Deputy Defense Minister Zeev Boim said international reaction and environmental concerns led Shaul Mofaz to change his earlier decision to knock down the homes.
		In 1982, Israel was heavily criticized for razing the settlement of Yamit and others when it withdrew from the Sinai desert under terms of a peace treaty with Egypt.
	www.sptimes.com /2005/04/08/Worldandnation/Defense_minister_says.shtml (813 words)

	FOXNews.com - Israel Defense Minister Eyes Arab Plan - International News \| News of the World \| Middle East News \| ...
		TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel's defense minister said Tuesday that a dormant Saudi initiative for Mideast peace could be a"basis for negotiation,"indicating a new possibility for talks with the Palestinians after years of stalemate.
		Israel has offered compensation instead, maintaining that demanding a"right of return"is a way of undermining the Jewish character of the state and destroying it from within.
		Israel's official position has been that the"road map"is the only plan on the table now, but Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev indicated the Saudi plan could be the basis for talks.
	www.foxnews.com /wires/2006Oct31/0,4670,IsraelPalestinians,00.html (944 words)

	DEBKAfile - New Iranian Defense Minister – Mughniyeh’s Controller, Israel Affairs Expert
		The new defense minister is notorious for his role in the earliest terror attacks on US targets in the Middle East.
		The new defense minister is also credited with organizing the 12,000 Katyusha short-range rockets Hizballah has positioned on the Lebanese-Israeli border as a deterrent against Israeli attacks on Iran and itself.
		In nearly five years of the current Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the new Iranian defense minister stayed in close touch with the Hizballah’s 1800 Unit, which interacts with the Palestinian terrorist organizations and whose agents are actively present in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and among dissident Israeli Arabs.
	www.debka.com /article.php?aid=1076 (1108 words)

	CNN.com - Sources: Sharon taps new defense minister - Oct. 31, 2002
		Mofaz was born in Iran in 1948 and emigrated to Israel in 1957, according to the Jewish Virtual Library.
		Israel Radio reported Sharon had started making contacts with the ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party, whose seven seats in the 120-member parliament could restore Sharon's majority in the legislature, Reuters reported.
		Yasser Abed Rabbo, the Palestinian information minister, said, "This (a newly formed coalition) is the Cabinet of the extreme right which will try to escalate the war more against the Palestinian people and will endanger the condition in the region.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/meast/10/31/israel.gov (566 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Israel Says it Will Exercise Restraint in Gaza
		Israel's army commanders have reportedly asked for permission to carry out a large scale air offensive against targets in the Gaza Strip to retaliate for the attacks.
		Meanwhile, Israel's Lands Administration Authority issued an advertisement for bids on 54 plots of land to be used for single-family houses near a large West Bank settlement.
		Under the internationally-backed Roadmap Peace Plan Israel is to freeze settlement construction and Palestinians are to stop violence against Israelis, as part of an eventual comprehensive peace settlement for the region.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/6-6-12/42630.html (464 words)

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		Mofaz spoke after he was asked by German reporters whether Israel has a contingency plan in case the international attempts to stop the Iranian nuclear program fail.
		The German minister clarified during the meeting that his country supports Israel in its policy toward Hamas and on the Syrian issue.
		The visit is aimed at strengthening Israel’s ties with both Israel and Germany and preserving the international front against Hamas and global terror.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3225640,00.html (535 words)

	Defence minister - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A defence minister (or defense minister, see spelling differences) is a cabinet portfolio (position) which regulates the armed forces in a sovereign nation.
		It is often assumed by the Prime Minister if war is common for that nation (for example, no less than five Prime Ministers of Israel have held the Defence Ministry during their Premiership).
		In the United States, the defence minister has been called the Secretary of Defense since 1947, when the once separate Department of War and Department of the Navy were merged (though the Secretary of the Navy exists to this day, it is no longer a Cabinet level position, being subordinate to the Secretary of Defense).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Defense_minister (528 words)

	ABC News: Israel Defense Minister Eyes Arab Plan
		TEL AVIV, Israel Oct 31, 2006 (AP)— Israel's defense minister said Tuesday that a dormant Saudi initiative for Mideast peace could be a "basis for negotiation," indicating a new possibility for talks with the Palestinians after years of stalemate.
		The Saudi plan calls for a comprehensive peace between Israel and the Arab world, based on a complete Israeli withdrawal from lands it captured in the 1967 Mideast war the West Bank, Gaza Strip, east Jerusalem and Golan Heights.
		Israel reacted skeptically at the time, rejecting an addition by Saudi Arabia requiring Israel to recognize the demand to take back Palestinian refugees from the 1948-49 war that followed creation of the Jewish state, as well as their descendants an estimated 4 million people.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=2618998 (413 words)

	Hashmonean.com \| Israel vs The Global Jihad
		Former IDF Chief of Staff, formerly Israel's Defense Minister until short few months ago, and the only man with any cohones in the cabinet casts the lone single abstention in key vote (Ynet), refuses to vote in favour of the cease fire..
		Following up on the Shaul Mofaz as Defense Minister debate and post, I came across this poll (Tuesday, April 11th) broadcast on Israel Channel 1 News’ Politica show, the details are in Hebrew but I’ll translate.
		Ynet Crisis not only with Reichman: Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz met Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday for talks in which he was notified that he won’t be keeping his post in the new government, which is will be given to Labor Chairman Amir Peretz.
	www.hashmonean.com /?s=mofaz (1767 words)

	United Jerusalem - - Israel-News Today -- 6/20/2006 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Israel frequently carries out airstrikes against Palestinian militants it believes are involved in rocket attacks.
		In presenting the results of a military investigation of the June 9 blast that killed seven members of one family that was picnicking on the beach, Peretz said the explosion was not caused by an Israeli shell fired at the time, as the Palestinians have charged, but by an explosive buried in the sand.
		Israel had trained heavy artillery fire on the northern Gaza Strip to strike at rocket launchers there, but halted the shelling after the Gaza beach blast on June 9.
	www.productofisrael.com /index2.asp?id=757966 (439 words)

	Is That Legal?: Israel’s Defense Chief Supports War Inquiry
		he NYTimes is reporting that Israel's Defense Minister, Amir Peretz, is calling for an independent inquiry into the recent war in Lebanon, instead of the government-controlled inquiry favored by Prime Minister Ehud Ohlmert.
		Second, the fact that Israel can have this debate without completely politicizing its strike into Lebanon suggests a democracy that may be far more robust and serious than our own.
		UPDATE: In response to a comment suggesting I'm enlisting Israel in an anti-war crusade, I say this: I'm pointing to Israel's response in hopes of prompting acountability and competence on the part of this otherwise incompetent administration and do-nothing Republican Congress.
	www.isthatlegal.org /archives/2006/09/israels_defense.html (563 words)

	Daily Herald - Defense minister: Israel would target Hamas prime minister if group resumes attacks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		JERUSALEM -- Israel's defense minister warned Tuesday the incoming Hamas prime minister would be assassinated if the Islamic militant group resumes attacks, but the acting Israeli premier also pledged a drastic cut in spending on Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
		Another key campaign issue is Israel's position on Hamas, which won the Palestinian parliamentary elections in January and is poised to form a government.
		Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz of Kadima told Army Radio on Tuesday that Israel would not hesitate to assassinate Hamas leaders if the group resumes attacks against Israel.
	www.heraldextra.com /content/view/168736 (819 words)

	Needed: a defense minister - Haaretz - Israel News
		The position is admittedly political, and the minister's oversight of the defense establishment is expected to be civilian in nature, but the prior knowledge necessary to begin this task is too extensive for a novice.
		Many previous defense ministers who had not held senior military ranks in the past - though not all of them - were endowed with understanding and experience in the fields of defense, strategy and foreign policy.
		The defense minister is in the middle, above the army's chief of staff and below the prime minister.
	www.haaretz.com /hasen/spages/792171.html (723 words)

	israelinsider: Briefs: German foreign minister meets Israel's defense minister in Jerusalem
		German foreign minister meets Israel's defense minister in Jerusalem
		German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier met Wednesday with Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz in Jerusalem, to urge Israel to accept the terms of a draft U.N. resolution that aims to end four weeks of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas.
		Steinmeier is on a three-day trip to the region with meetings scheduled with Lebanese and Israeli leaders.
	web.israelinsider.com /Articles/Briefs/9107.htm (378 words)

	Ukrainian Army Sees Israel as Alternative to Russia
		Ukraine's Minister of Defense Anatoly Gritsenko visited Israel from 24 till 27 of July, at the head of a big delegation.
		One of the main reasons for increase of Ukraine's interest in military cooperation with Israel is the worsening of its relations with Russia.
		Israel is capable to satisfy the needs of the Ukrainian army in modern digital communication systems, in advanced electronics for surveillance and reconnaissance systems, and in unmanned air drones.
	www.axisglobe.com /article.asp?article=287 (1934 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		In 1988, he was elected to the 12th Knesset, where he served on several committees, including State Comptroller, Foreign Affairs and Defense, and Labor and Welfare.
		In 2002, Peretz was reelected Histadrut chairman, and in 2003, Peretz led the Histadrut in a scathing attack on then-Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s economic reforms, which included privatization of services and public companies, such as the Ports Authority, as well as welfare cuts.
		Peretz was appointed defense minister in the new government headed by Kadima chairman
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3285433,00.html (466 words)

	Israel Minister of Defense
		Defense Minister Ben-Eliezer strongly rejects media reports this morning regarding the non-implementation of these measures and emphasizes that their implementation will be completed according to a pre-determined plan.
		Defense Minister Ben-Eliezer hopes that the aforementioned nine measures will contribute to the trend of relaxation on the ground and calls on the Palestinian Authority to respond positively to Israel’s steps and carry out the necessary intensive operations against terrorist elements
		Defense Minister Ben-Eliezer emphasizes that Israel will continue to strive for the cessation of terrorism and violence in order to reach negotiations and a resolution of the conflict that will benefit both peoples.
	www.israelnewsagency.com /mindef1.3.html (351 words)

	Defense Minister Peretz: Israel is eradicating Hizballah
		Defense Minister Amir Peretz said yesterday that before the deployment of a multinational force, Israel is preparing the conditions where the Hizballah will cease to exist.
		Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said, however, that the complete eradication of Hizballah from the area is not a necessary condition for the deployment of a multinational force.
		In her address to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Livni added that the Kana incident was a diplomatic turning point because it shifted the direction which the international community was going and narrowed Israel’s ability to maneuver in the international arena.
	www.israeltoday.co.il /default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=8884 (322 words)

	Israeli Defense Minister "Hamas Acting Responsibly" - Hamas: "Israel Must Change Flag Sunday" - Militant Islam Monitor ...
		Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told the Israeli cabinet on Sunday that since the election Hamas was acting responsibly.
		Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told the Israeli cabinet on Sunday that since Hamas won a sweeping victory in last Wednesday's PA parliamentary election, the extreme Islamic terror group was acting "responsibly."
		Israel's national flag, a blue Star of David set between two blue stripes, was designed to resemble a Jewish prayer shawl which traditionally has stripes.
	www.militantislammonitor.org /article/id/1602 (527 words)

	USATODAY.com - Israeli defense minister leaves Likud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Mofaz's decision came after weekend polls showed him badly trailing former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom in the race to become Likud's candidate for prime minister, but he insisted the party's direction, and not the polls, were what influenced his decision.
		The prime minister's exit from Likud left the party, which dominated Israeli politics for much of the last three decades, in tatters.
		The Iranian-born Mofaz, 57, has strong security credentials — assuming the position of defense minister shortly after retiring as the military chief of staff.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-12-11-israel-minister_x.htm (708 words)

	World Tribune.com: Mofaz agrees to be Israel's defense minister
		JERUSALEM — Israel's former chief of staff has accepted an offer to become the nation's new defense minister.
		Mofaz replaces outgoing Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, who led the Labor Party in a walkout last week.
		PA Interior Minister Hani Al Hassan said the government does not oppose attacks on Jewish settlers, including suicide bombings.
	www.worldtribune.com /worldtribune/WTARC/2002/me_israel_11_04.html (314 words)

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