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| Terminology glitch: Contradicting IDF, US says it didn’t establish military base in Israel |
| 2017-09-20 |
| [IsraelTimes] On its website, Israeli military scrambles to change all mentions of American 'base' to say 'facility,' but insists it's still a first The American military on Tuesday denied a claim made by the Israel Defense Forces that the United States had established its first base in Israel, saying the new buildings were instead a "living facility." On Monday, the Israeli Air Force declared that the US military’s European Command (EUCOM) had opened a "base within a base" at the IDF’s air defense school, west of the towns of Dimona and Yeruham in southern Israel. "We established an American base in the State of Israel, in the Israel Defense Forces, for the first time, with an American flag. A permanent base," Brig. Gen. Tzvika Haimovitch, head of the IAF’s Aerial Defense Command, told news hounds. However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... an official from EUCOM contradicted that account. "As part of the United States’ continued commitment to Israel, on September 18, big shots from the US military participated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony... to commemorate the opening of a new building on an Israeli Air Force base," said Meghan Henderson, deputy director of EUCOM’s Media Operations Division. "The new buildings located on the Israeli installation are not a US military base," she said. "The buildings are facilities on the existing Israeli Air Force Base to support our US service personnel who are working there." The message was passed along to the IDF, which quickly changed all mentions on its website of a "US military base" to read "US military facility." An Israeli army official confirmed that the Americans had contacted the IDF and requested the change in terminology, as a base carries with it a number of legal distinctions and can only be applied to facilities of a certain size. The Israeli official said the rest of the information about the site and its significance remained the same. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 TCP Jericho. |
| Posted by: newc 2017-09-20 21:35 |
| #5 Seem to forget the Patriots we manned back in Desert Storm. Those weren't 'bases' either. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-09-20 20:07 |
| #4 We only renting |
| Posted by: KBK 2017-09-20 19:06 |
| #3 They won't be needing as much clerical help? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-09-20 15:30 |
| #2 I guess some, professional, girls will be disappointed. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-09-20 13:00 |
| #1 So the SECRET drone control facility is now secret again? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-09-20 09:56 |