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2007-11-02 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Israel: Ready for harder military tactics

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-11-02 14:07|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 The government's three most immediate security concerns are:

Its ever-simmering tensions with the densely populated Palestinian Gaza Strip and the Hamas political leadership at the country's southwestern flank border with Egypt
Its top-of-the-map frontier with southern Lebanon, where the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) fought a short and sharp but less-than-satisfactory war in summer 2006 with Iran-supplied Hizbollah militants
The Golan Heights frontline between Israeli and Syrian forces
"We see relentless terrorist attacks from Gaza against our citizens in southern Israel and a restocked Hizbollah [with Iranian-supplied Katyusha rockets] in southern Lebanon. Yes, you could argue the threats are rising," an Israeli government official in Jerusalem told ISN Security Watch in Brussels on 22 October.

Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger 2007-11-02 14:49|| 2007-11-02 14:49|| Front Page Top

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