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	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Military of Israel
		It was formed following the founding of Israel in 1948 to "defend the existence, territorial integrity and sovereignty of the state of Israel" and "to protect the inhabitants of Israel and to combat all forms of terrorism which threaten the daily life".
		During 1950-66, Israel spent an average of 9% of its GDP on defense.
		The current size and composition of Israel's nuclear stockpile is uncertain, and is the subject of various estimates and reports.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/mi/Military_of_Israel (1229 words)

	Think-Israel
		Israel chose to ignore the fact that these sophisticated, long-range weapons were not in the hands of actors that are reasonable states with an obligation to defend their citizens and interests and an awareness that they have something to lose by using such weapons.
		Israel could have decided to execute a limited military operation immediately after the attack to make it difficult to transport the kidnapped soldiers elsewhere and declare that the attack was an act of war against Israel by Lebanon and the Hizbullah and that Israel would respond to it at the appropriate time.
		Israel's critics in the international arena should imagine if a military attack were launched from French territory against a German military patrol and all of the soldiers in the patrol were killed, except for two who were kidnapped and taken into French territory.
	www.think-israel.org /ganor.lebanon.html (2975 words)

	Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military \| UCSB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Military service in Israel is mandatory for both men and women at the age of 18, and it provides a common experience for young Israelis entering adulthood.
		The military committee then drafted amendments to the 1983 order that officially "recogniz[ed] that homosexuals are entitled to serve in the military as are others" and declared that sexual minorities would be judged fit for service "according to the criteria in force for all candidates for security service" (cited in Walzer, 1999: 118).
		The military appeals court pointed to the fact that homosexuals "constitute a small minority", which suggests that the likelihood of happening upon a potential same-sex sexual partner by chance "is not great".
	www.gaymilitary.ucsb.edu /Publications/IsraelPub1.htm (3895 words)

	Fact sheets on U.S. Aid to Israel - Palestine Monitor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Military power is required for Israel to maintain its occupation of the Palestinian territories, implemented through a system of expanding settlements, checkpoints and closure.
		Israel’s GNP is higher than the combined GNP of Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
		Israel receives the largest single grant of the Near East budget, which alone is 79% of the total ESF request.
	www.palestinemonitor.org /factsheet/US_Aid_to_Israel.htm (1148 words)

	E-Notes: Israel’s Military Dilemma - FPRI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Israel’s strategy formulation for its military reaction to the Al Aksa intifada begun by the Palestinians in Fall 2000 was profoundly affected by the Israeli Defense Forces’ experience in occupying parts of Lebanon from 1982 to 2000.
		The solution is to use Israel’s military might to pressure the core structure of the PA, which claims to be able to control those same radicals that are forcing Israel to move from defensive to offensive postures.
		Israel re-entered the cities that were given back to the Palestinian Authority in 1993 because the Israeli government cannot simply remain hunkered down in a defensive position waiting for suicide bombers to strike.
	www.fpri.org /enotes/middleeastafrica.20020510.romirowsky.israelmilitarydilemma.html (1152 words)

	Military.com Content (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Israel's military reserve corps, the backbone of the Israel Defense Force throughout the country's war-torn 52-year history, is facing a crisis.
		A series of groups representing Israel's military reservists have called on the government of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to take steps to improve widespread disaffection among the nation's part-time soldiers, who are critical of Israel's defense strategy and the IDF's methods of recruitment.
		Military leaders are also likely to rely more heavily on the reserves they have if there are fewer of them and on attracting immigrants as a way to bulk up the part-time force.
	www.military.com /Content/MoreContent?file=SG27april01 (758 words)

	Israel: the military in charge?
		The conclusions of the forum were solemnly presented to the president of Israel, and what they suggest there is the transfer-solution: "It will be necessary to find some place for resettlement outside the State of Israel (perhaps to the east of the Jordan) for the Palestinian population of the territories".
		Israel's eagerness to open a new front has apparently found US hawks with open ears, particularly in the circles of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his deputy Paul Wolfowitz.
		Israel is led now by lunatic, megalomaniac generals, who keep their plans secret even from the full forum of the government.
	www.tau.ac.il /~reinhart/political/24_05_02_Military_in_Charge.html (1812 words)

	Power Bloc Turkey and Israel Lock Arms
		Turkey and Israel have repeatedly stressed that their accord is not an "alliance" requiring either country to defend the other.
		Israel, meanwhile, has similar objections to Syria's backing of the Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, with whom it continues to fight a low-intensity war.
		In Israel's case, despite the interim agreement signed in October at Wye Plantation, the Netanyahu government's ongoing land expropriations, restrictions on travel, and refusal to concede any genuine autonomy have left many Palestinians deeply disillusioned with the peace process.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /New_World_Order/PowerBloc_TurkeyIsrael.html (3390 words)

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		Israel has not exactly faced the top rung of military competency in her wars but if wargaming and training exercises against the US and others is any indication their Air Force is not overrated.
		The military service is compulsory for Israeli citizens, but the army has become pretty selective of late, and most young people anxiously view military service as a right rather than as a duty, since more and more of the young people with "qualitative" problems don't get to serve at all.
		Israel has never had the luxuries the French take for granted, and they'd have to survive in a world where much of Europe, including France, has followed policies which seem to oscillate between hostile indifference to Israel and outright hostility.
	www.strategypage.com /militaryforums/30-43465.aspx (2073 words)

	USATODAY.com - Israel says it doesn't plan to occupy Lebanon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		HAIFA, Israel — Israel's offensive in Lebanon is a temporary campaign designed to weaken Hezbollah militants and establish a buffer zone between Israel and Lebanon, Israeli officials and experts say.
		Israel plans to attack "primarily by air," limit ground attacks and avoid repeating its 18-year occupation of Lebanon that ended in 2000, Eisin said.
		Israel wants implementation of a United Nations resolution approved in 2004 calling for Hezbollah to disarm and the Lebanese army to control the southern border.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-07-17-israel-strategy_x.htm (705 words)

	Israel's military chief resigns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The decision of Israel's top military officer to step down raises the pressure on the country's prime minister, Ehud Olmert, and the defence minister, Amir Peretz, whose roles during Israel's largest military operation since 1982 have also been heavily criticised.
		Israel claims it killed 600 guerrillas but that number has not been substantiated, and Lebanon says most of its casualties were civilians.
		Northern Israel was near paralyzed by Hizbullah's firing of nearly 4,000 rockets during the conflict, and 159 Israelis were killed, including 39 civilians who died in rocket attacks.
	www.infowars.com /articles/ww3/israel_military_chief_resigns.htm (698 words)

	U.S. Military Aid and Israel
		Massive military aid promotes militarism, which has led to a reliance on military, rather than diplomatic means to work for a solution to this ongoing conflict.
		In fiscal year 2003 Israel received a foreign military financing grant of $3.1 billion and a $600 million grant for economic security in addition to $11 billion in commercial loan guarantees.
		Using military aid as a lever to end the occupation will be a boon to the security and hopes for the future for both Israelis and Palestinians.
	www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org /publish/article_17.shtml (1486 words)

	israelinsider: security: Primitive Gaza rockets stump Israel's mighty military
		Israel has pounded crowded Gaza with some 2,200 artillery shells in the past 11 days, killing three Palestinian bystanders and wounding 25, but has failed to stop the Palestinian projectiles from reaching Israeli border villages.
		Military analysts believe the Israeli anti-rocket barrage, which began after the Islamic militant group Hamas assumed power two weeks ago, is largely driven by the army's frustration and has no direct military purpose.
		Israel said militants are cynically using civilians as human shields by firing from populated areas.
	web.israelinsider.com /Articles/Security/8246.htm (1949 words)

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		Israel still has a developing navy and if America took that to their advantage, which they most likely would, of course they would win.
		True Israel's army is a defensive army, but they are trained to defend themself against arab nations with poor equipment; instead of that kind of agressor, they would have the most advanced army, with one of the best training (if not the best) in the world knocking on their doorstep.
		Israel is a sprinter not a long-distance runner.
	www.strategypage.com /militaryforums/30-34297.aspx (2749 words)

	Israel CMO Factpage
		The Israel military was primarily created and built to help defend against land invasions from other countries and enemies.
		The average age of male and females in the Israel’s military is 51 years old for male and just over 49 years old for females.
		Military expenditures for 2002 were $8.97 billion or 8.75% of GDP.
	www2.hawaii.edu /~youngmar/factpage.htm (342 words)

	U.S. Military Upgrade with Israel Comes with Shackles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The US and Israel reportedly are set to formally upgrade their strategic relationship, but American leverage over Israel's arms industry is costing the Jewish state billions of dollars in lost sales.
		Israel has lost contracts worth more than $4 billion in this year alone, a huge setback to the state's vital domestic arms industry.
		At the same time, Israel is watching the US rake in billions on arms transfers, including huge packages of top-of-the-line weapons systems for hostile Arab neighbors.
	www.worthynews.com /news-features/israel-us-military-ties.html (439 words)

	The Israeli Military and Israel's Palestinian Policy by Yoram Peri: Peaceworks: U.S. Institute of Peace
		In the policy sphere, these factors include dependence on the military monopoly on information, a relatively weak institutional system of civilian control that depends more on internalization of the principle of civil supremacy and less on strong constitutional mechanisms, and the absence of coordinating organs between the military and the civilian side.
		On the military side, these factors include weakness of the mechanisms that are supposed to separate the military from politics--for example, by creating obstacles to a swift transition from military service to a political career--and traditional resistance to the creation of checks and balances to military power such as a powerful council for national security.
		The blurring of politics and military affairs, the influence of generals at the highest levels of policymaking, the ability of one overzealously destructive soldier to radically alter public policy: these dramatic trends may be the wave of the future.
	www.usip.org /pubs/peaceworks/pwks47.html (1544 words)

	USATODAY.com - Israeli military studies Hezbollah's resilience (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		JERUSALEM —; Israel's military has ordered a series of investigations to examine why its armed forces were unable to crush Hezbollah militants during a month of fighting in Lebanon.
		Israel's military has asked the government for $2.5 billion to purchase a system capable of detecting and tracking anti-tank missiles and countering them with a launched projectile.
		Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2000 after an 18-year occupation in the south.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-09-13-israel-army_x.htm (997 words)

	CNN.com - Israel: Hezbollah's military power halved - Jul 20, 2006
		Israel has rejected calls for a cease-fire until it can push Hezbollah back from its northern frontier and retrieve its captured soldiers.
		Israel began military activity in Gaza on June 28, three days after Palestinian militants, including members of Hamas' military wing, entered Israel, killed two soldiers and captured Cpl. Gilad Shalit, 19.
		Hamas is a Palestinian Islamic fundamentalist organization whose military wing, Izzedine al Qassam, has admitted responsibility for terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians as well as attacks against the Israeli military.
	www.cnn.com /2006/WORLD/meast/07/20/mideast/index.html (1191 words)

	Religious Orthodoxy and the Military in Israel by Norman L. Zucker
		All kitchens in military units are kosher and are supervised by the chaplaincy.
		The Chief Rabbinate threatened that "the rabbinical court would ban the military amendment, a world wide day of fast would be proclaimed in protest, and Orthodox Jewry would 'fill the prisons in Israel with their daughters rather than comply with the law.
		Israelis esteem the military and are unwilling to involve it in polemic; they are aware that to ensure survival and not jeopardize national defense the functioning of the military cannot be impaired, even in the slightest.
	members.tripod.com /alabasters_archive/orthodoxy_military.html (1627 words)

	Military Of Israel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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	www.appliedlanguage.com /country_guides/Israel_country_military.shtml (225 words)

	CNN.com - U.S. to increase military aid to Israel - Nov. 21, 2002
		After a two-day meeting of the U.S.-Israel Joint Political Military Group, the Bush administration made the commitments in an exchange of letters, reaffirming its "commitment to maintaining and enhancing Israel's security and qualitative edge over any combination of adversaries," the State Department said in a written statement.
		A State Department official told CNN that in addition to the bi-lateral military relationship between the two countries, the talks addressed the threats posed by Iraq, Iran and foreign terrorist organizations.
		The proposed $2.16 billion for fiscal year 2004 is separate from U.S. economic support to Israel, which the countries have agreed will decrease and eventually disappear by 2008, with a commensurate raise in military assistance..
	www.cnn.com /2002/US/11/21/israel.us.aid/index.html (259 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Military chief: Israel may reoccupy parts of Gaza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The IDF chief said a military presence at the Philadelphi Route, the border road between Egypt and Gaza, would be preferable to the absence of IDF forces in the area.
		Yesterday, WND broke the story the Israeli military is set to present battle plans for approval by the government here later this week for a large-scale Gaza offensive, including possible reoccupation of parts of the terriorty, according to senior IDF officers.
		Military officials said they were surprised by the scale of the Hezbollah bunkers, in which Israeli troops reportedly found war rooms stocked with advanced eavesdropping and surveillance equipment they noted were made by Iran.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52605 (1909 words)

	Bush Wants $2.2 Billion More Military Aid For Israel
		The increase is in line with a 1990s agreement which reduces economic assistance to Israel by $120 million a year while adding $60 million a year to the military component of the package, the largest Washington gives to any country.
		The statement, issued after talks in Israel last Wednesday and Thursday between senior U.S. and Israeli officials, said the Bush administration was committed to enhancing Israel's security and "maintaining Israel's qualitative edge over any combination of adversaries".
		Apart from the annual military and economic assistance, the United States is also guaranteeing international loans by Israel up to an amount of $9 billion over three years.
	www.rense.com /general44/bushwanm.htm (238 words)

	Military Matters: Israel's defeat
		Israel appears to have lost at every level--strategic, operational and tactical.
		Israel took little ground and paid heavily in casualties for that.
		Israel's "wall" strategy for dealing with the Palestinians has been undone; Hamas rockets can fly over a wall as easily as Hezbollah rockets have flown over Israel's northern border.
	wpherald.com /articles/875/1/Military-Matters-Israels-defeat/Nasrallah-now-an-Islamic-hero.html (450 words)

	Top Secret American Military Installations in Israel
		Arkin is an independent journalist and military commentator for NBC and a former intelligence analyst for US ground forces.
		Late Republican Senator Jesse Helms used to call Israel “America’s aircraft carrier in the Middle East,” when explaining why the US viewed Israel as such a strategic ally, saying that the military foothold in the region offered by the Jewish State alone justified the military aid that the US grants Israel every year.
		Israel, as a state, would evaporate without the extensive US military and economic aid.
	www.gnn.tv /headlines/7761/Top_Secret_American_Military_Installations_in_Israel (501 words)

	U-S MILITARY/SYRIA/ISRAEL
		Much of Israel was once vulnerable to Syrian artillery positions on this high ground.
		But in the last 30 years, Israel has used the strategic Golan to keep track of Syrian troop movements and eavesdrop on Syrian telephone and radio communications.
		Other Pentagon officials say they expect Israel to bargain hard not just with Syria, but with Washington as well over how much intelligence, cash, technology, and hardware will be necessary to reassure Israeli leaders they can safely give up the Golan Heights.
	www.fas.org /irp/news/2000/01/000107-intell1.htm (670 words)

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