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	Encyclopedia: Israeli Army
		Six Israeli Arabs have received orders of distinction as a part of their military service; of them the most famous is a Bedouin officer, Lieutenant Colonel Abd El-Amin Hajer (also known as Amos Yarkoni), who received the Order of Distinction.
		The Israeli government has neither acknowledged nor denied that it possesses nuclear weapons, an official policy referred to as "ambiguity".
		But since Rav Aluf in Israel is the high commander of the army (including air force and navy), the translation of it as "General" is more appropriate.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Israeli-Army (1912 words)

	The Lebanon War
		Israeli strikes and commando raids were unable to stem the growth of this PLO army.
		The initial success of the Israeli operation led officials to broaden the objective to expel the PLO from Lebanon and induce the country's leaders to sign a peace treaty.
		The Israeli withdrawal was conducted in coordination with the UN, and constituted an Israeli fulfillment of its obligations under Security Council Resolution 425 (1978).
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/Lebanon_War.html (1678 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Israeli officer who killed UK journalist faces minor charges
		The Israeli army has told the family of a British journalist killed in the Gaza Strip that the soldier responsible will face only minor disciplinary charges, despite the investigators' suspicion that he illegally shot James Miller two years ago.
		But Gen Mandelblit said the army was prepared to take disciplinary action against the lieutenant only for breaching the rules of engagement and "for his conduct during the investigation", which may mean lying to investigators.
		Mrs Miller said the army investigators had expressed a strong suspicion that the lieutenant was guilty of illegally killing her husband.
	www.guardian.co.uk /israel/Story/0,2763,1434235,00.html (639 words)

	USATODAY.com - Israeli army detains BBC journalists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The television crew from the BBC was accompanying the doctor, Ghassan Hamdan, as he visited an 80-year-old woman living in an apartment commandeered by the army.
		Army spokeswoman Maj. Sharon Feingold said the military was investigating.
		Military officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the crew happened upon an undercover Israeli operation, and soldiers were concerned for their safety.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-08-12-bbc-israel_x.htm (306 words)

	CTV.ca \| Israeli army to thwart settler resistance
		Israeli officials said plans have already been drawn up to relocate all forces in Gaza to nearby bases in southern Israel.
		Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev could not confirm the report but said he was optimistic that a thaw could be near.
		About 500,000 Israelis, roughly 10 per cent of the Jewish population, are immigrants from Morocco or their descendants.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1111253033840_8?hub=World (857 words)

	Israel Defense Forces -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Women were historically barred from battle in the IDF, serving in a variety of technical and administrative support roles, except during the (Click link for more info and facts about 1948 war of independence) 1948 war of independence, when manpower shortages saw many of them taking active part in battles on the ground.
		The first two nuclear bombs were probably operational before the (Tension between Arabs and Israeli erupted into a brief war in June 1967; Israel emerged as a major power in the Middle East) Six-Day War and Prime Minister Eshkol ordered them armed in Israel's first nuclear alert during that war.
		These missiles are purported to have a 1,500 km range and are supposedly fired out of what are suspected to be unusually-sized additional torpedo tubes that were allgedly installed on the Dolphin submarine and are otherwise larger than what is required to accommodate any currently known western torpedo design in existence.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/is/israel_defense_forces.htm (3183 words)

	CNN.com - Israeli army says it likely killed Palestinian boy - October 3, 2000
		JERUSALEM (Reuters) -- The Israeli army said Tuesday an internal investigation showed its troops apparently were responsible for killing a 12-year-old Palestinian boy whose televised death in Gaza shocked the world.
		The Israeli army's head of the southern command, Yom Tov Samya, said the boy should not have been at the flashpoint junction in the first place.
		Samya said Israeli soldiers had shown restraint in the face of thousands of Palestinian rioters during six days of fierce clashes that erupted after Israeli right-winger Ariel Sharon visited a holy site in Jerusalem which is sacred to Jews and Muslims.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/meast/10/03/mideast.boy.reut (663 words)

	10 Palestinians Killed as Israeli Army Fires on Protest Against Bloody Raid
		But Israeli officials, expressing regret for the loss of innocent life, said that the helicopter had only fired a warning shot and the deaths were likely caused by four tank shells.
		In a statement, the army denied that the casualties were the result of a helicopter strike but said one missile had been fired in an open area as a warning to the protesters, who included gunmen, to stop their march.
		Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's advisor Ranaan Gissin, however, defended the operation as vital to put an end to the smuggling of weapons from under the border with Egypt.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines04/0519-03.htm (1010 words)

	Aljazeera.Net - Israeli army 'executed' Palestinian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		The Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem has accused the Israeli army of murdering an unarmed, wounded Palestinian resistance activist, calling the killing an extrajudicial execution.
		The Israeli occupation army issued a statement saying Kamil was killed as he tried to flee from a house in which he had been hiding.
		According to army sources, some soldiers in the naval commando unit which killed Kamil, have been suspended from active duty pending the conclusion of an investigation into the incident.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/88F9A086-C0D9-4487-869D-70BA86AF74D5.htm (688 words)

	CBC News:Israeli army embarrassed by video broadcast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		JERUSALEM - The Israeli army has expressed a note of contrition after a television station aired a videotape showing an army assault on a Palestinian home in which a mother of five children died.
		Israeli spokesman Ranaan Gissin said the government was disappointed by the decision to air the tapes.
		The army, after trying to suppress distribution of the pictures, admitted the soldiers' actions pushed the boundaries of public acceptance.
	www.cbc.ca /stories/2002/03/19/mideast_censor020319 (566 words)

	CNN - Israel at 50: Army holds Israeli society together
		Until recently, 92 percent of all young men spent three years in the army receiving basic training, and for the next 30 years they were on reserve, spending as much as a month each year on active duty.
		The Israeli army, the IDF, has been and continues to be a training ground for business and political leaders, including future prime ministers.
		Today, critics of the Israeli army within its ranks say that as good as it is, it is badly in need of reform.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/meast/9804/29/israel.glue (960 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Israeli army accused of cruelty
		A leading Israeli human rights group has accused Israeli soldiers of "malicious and cruel" treatment of Palestinians and the military leadership of indifference to widespread abuses.
		The Association of Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) issued its annual report yesterday with denunciations of violence by Palestinian groups and the army during the intifada, but the spotlight fell on the Israeli military.
		The ACRI is also strongly critical of the hundreds of Israeli army roadblocks.
	www.guardian.co.uk /israel/Story/0,2763,1003969,00.html (322 words)

	In These Times * Hemmed In
		The Israeli assassination of Raed Karmi of the military wing of Arafat’s Fateh faction on January 14 were followed by the killing of six Israelis three days later, including guests dancing at a Jewish girl’s bat mitzvah party.
		But some members of the Israeli cabinet are again calling for Arafat’s removal to a third country, in demands reminiscent of a vetoed 1982 plan to extract Arafat from Beirut with a helicopter and a fishing net.
		Israeli public opinion took a significant turn in recent weeks, when some voices charged the army with “war crimes” when it demolished the homes of 500 Palestinian families, all the while claiming they were empty.
	www.inthesetimes.com /issue/26/07/news1.shtml (853 words)

	CBS News \| Israeli Army Retakes Hebron \| November 17, 2002 15:26:19
		Israeli soldiers had withdrawn from the Palestinian sector three weeks earlier, as part of what was to have been a partial pullback of forces from West Bank areas where calm was restored.
		The Israeli military said troops had fired at a wall to deter residents from breaking a curfew, and that the woman was killed by the ricochet of a wall fragment.
		The army said troops first shouted at the man, then fired warning shots in the air to stop him as he neared the border with Israel before shooting him in the legs.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/11/17/world/main529660.shtml (1413 words)

	Israeli Army Radio - "Galatz"
		The Israel Army Radio (IAR) is probably the only military radio station in the world that combines first-class news editions and reports, up-to-date rock & pop, programs for teenagers, adults and soldiers, and is pluralistic, almost free of direct cencorship - and popular among the listeners.
		Since the Israeli army (IDF) is an integral part of Israeli life, the IAR is also an integral part of the Israeli media.
		The Israeli Army Radio became the most popular station for the younger generation of Israelis - from 6 to 46, every day, 24 hours a day, seven days a week (even on "Shabbath"...), FM and AM.
	breitman.homestead.com /IARadio.html (1734 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Israeli army accused of new killing
		But the Israeli army denied any knowledge of the death, saying that its own men were attacked by gunmen in the area and had returned fire.
		The Israeli army maintains that the dead teenager was trying to negotiate Jarrar's surrender when militants inside shot him dead, provoking a bloodbath in which the militant was also killed.
		A number of government ministers told Israeli media that the country was in a war situation, and sometimes the lives of Palestinian civilians had to be endangered to prevent attacks in Israel or to protect Israeli soldiers.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/2195155.stm (626 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Activist's memorial service disrupted
		Israeli forces fired teargas and stun grenades yesterday in an attempt to break up a memorial service for Rachel Corrie, the American peace activist killed by an army bulldozer in Gaza on Sunday.
		Witnesses including several dozen foreigners and Palestinian supporters say Israeli armoured vehicles tried to disperse the gathering at the spot in Rafah refugee camp where Ms Corrie was crushed to death.
		The army said it was investigating the incident.
	www.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,3604,917119,00.html (406 words)

	Israeli Army Engaged in Fight Over Its Soul (washingtonpost.com)
		With the Israel Defense Forces in the fourth year of battle with the Palestinians, the most dominant institution in Israeli society is also embroiled in a struggle over its own character, according to dozens of interviews with soldiers, officers, reservists and some of the nation's preeminent military analysts.
		And while they do not question the need to prevent terrorist acts against Israelis, military officials and soldiers are speaking out with increasing frequency against a strategy that they say has forsaken negotiation and relied almost exclusively on military force to address the conflict.
		Israeli military officials requested that the full names of active-duty soldiers not be printed for fear that they could be subject to prosecution for war crimes in countries that oppose Israel's actions in the Palestinian territories.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A54448-2003Nov17.html (875 words)

	Doubts grow within Israeli Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		As the Israel Defense Forces enter a fourth year of battle with the Palestinians, the most dominant institution in Israeli society is also embroiled in a struggle over its own character, according to dozens of interviews with soldiers, officers, reservists and some of the nation’s preeminent military analysts.
		In addition to the pilots, 567 reserve army officers and soldiers have declared publicly that they will no longer serve in the Palestinian territories, and hundreds of others have quietly asked their commanders for reassignment, according to military lawyers and Israeli military experts.
		His troops are native Israelis as well as immigrants from across the globe — 20 from Russia and other former Soviet republics, 10 from Ethiopia, others from Argentina, Britain and, until recently, two from the United States.
	www.msnbc.com /news/994931.asp (2700 words)

	ei: The Electronic Intifada
		Surveying the landscape - physical and political alike - the Israeli Prime Minister has finally fulfilled the task with which he was charged 38 years ago by Menachem Begin: ensure permanent Israel control over the entire Land of Israel while foreclosing the emergence of a viable Palestinian state.
		Israeli forces invaded Tulkarem and two refugee camps east of the city.
		Israeli forces saw an armed Palestinian from an alley and opened fire, hitting him with two bullets in his leg and hand.
	electronicintifada.net (651 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Israeli army bulldozer crushes US peace protester in Gaza Strip
		An Israeli army bulldozer crushed an American peace activist to death in the Gaza Strip yesterday in what witnesses described as a deliberate killing.
		An Israeli military official later claimed there was limited visibility, especially on the ground immediately in front of the vehicle, from the windows of the armoured bulldozers used by the army.
		The Israeli military has imposed "full closure" on the occupied territories this week to coincide with the Jewish holiday of Purim.
	www.guardian.co.uk /israel/Story/0,2763,915725,00.html (750 words)

	Gush Shalom - Israeli Peace Bloc
		I was struck by the fact that in spite of being very successful and acclaimed by the critics, and that at a relatively early age, she somehow exuded an air of insecurity.
		In the State of the Settlers, the army is subject to the rabbis and the settlers' leadership.
		A strong army and police detachment was guarding the entrance to the ministry.
	zope.gush-shalom.org /home/en (8894 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Israeli army surrounds Gaza camp
		Israeli public radio also said that the army was also planning to dig a moat along the Philadelphi road on the Egypt-Gaza border.
		The army says buildings slated for demolition are used to launch attacks by Palestinian militants, who also smuggle weapons through tunnels under the border.
		Israeli security officials are quoted as saying hundreds of soldiers and dozens of armoured vehicles will be involved in the mission.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/3720121.stm (659 words)

	Independent Media Center \| www.indymedia.org \| ((( i )))
		Today December 26, the Israeli army responded with brutal force to a non-violent demonstration against the Apartheid Wall in Mas'ha village, West Bank, Occupied Palestine, shooting live bullets into a crowd and seriously injuring an Israeli activist.
		The demonstration was convened by Palestinians, Israelis and Internationals against the Apartheid Wall as part of the programme of activities of the Deir Ballut village Camp against the Apartheid Wall.
		to depict by implication all israelis as nazi minded thugs who are bent solely on the destruction of palestinians is just another instance where indymedia does little better by its reader than the mainstream.
	www.indymedia.org /en/2003/12/110252.shtml (1077 words)

	Israeli army under fire after killing girl \| csmonitor.com
		JERUSALEM –; A rare glimpse of the Israeli military while it targeted and killed a Palestinian child in a restricted area in the Gaza Strip is touching off anger, embarrassing the army, and reinforcing questions about military practices in the occupied territories.
		While the army is saying the incident is "exceptional," critics say it reflects norms in which killing of Palestinian noncombatants is accepted and not seriously investigated.
		Army spokeswoman Maj. Sharon Finegold says the incident "does not reflect the norms, values, and conduct of Israel Defense Force soldiers." She adds that it took place "during combat activities in the most violent place during the past four years." Major Finegold says: "The soldiers felt they were under immediate threat.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/1126/p07s01-wome.html (1094 words)

	Mutiny of Pilots in the Israeli Army of Occupation
		Mutiny of Pilots in the Israeli Army of Occupation
		Soldiers in the occupying army would encourage their colleagues to leave the service by inscribing phrases on the sides of tanks and armored vehicles.
		It lacked the most important pillars on which any army is built; it had no historic depth and no exceptional military leader because they are a new nation that encompasses a number of nationalities united only by the lie of the return to the promised land, which many are beginning to question.
	www.arabnews.com /?page=7§ion=0&article=33915&d=20&m=10&y=2003 (614 words)

	Checkpoints Take Toll on Palestinians, Israeli Army (washingtonpost.com)
		The Israeli military says the checkpoints are necessary to protect Israel and Jewish settlements in the territories from Palestinian attackers.
		Last year, a female Israeli soldier assigned to a Gaza Strip checkpoint was convicted of forcing a Palestinian woman at gunpoint to drink a bottle of cleaning fluid, according to court records.
		A year ago, two Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint south of Jerusalem were shot dead by a Palestinian who carried an automatic rifle rolled in a prayer rug.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A18597-2004Nov28.html (1019 words)

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