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Selected Citings 2007-2008
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By Linda Gradstein, The Washington Post
"There's absolutely no chance of reaching an agreement on anything by the end of the year," said Hirsh Goodman, a senior fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. "Usually I'm not prophetic, but there's no government on either side that can make any decisions on behalf of anyone." |
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By Yaakov Lappin, The Jerusalem Post
According to Ephraim Kam, an expert on Iran and the deputy head of Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies, "The fact that Pakistan has had a nuclear program for a few years is not seen by Israel as a threat to it," he said. "The main reason is because these weapons are aimed at India. The bombs are more Pakistani than Islamic, That could change if an Islamist revolution took hold in Pakistan". |
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By Yaakov Lappin, The Jerusalem Post
Yiftah Shapir, head of the Middle East Military Balance project at Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies, said there was a major difference between being able to fly 3,000 kilometers and actually carrying out a successful airstrike on a distant target. "You may be able to technically fly the distance at high altitude without arms on the jet," Shapir said. |
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Yaakov Lappin and Khaled Abu Toameh, The Jerusalem Post
Meir Elran, a former deputy director of Military Intelligence who took part in peace talks with Egypt, said, "Every good ambassador in the world reports to his superiors, and acts as the long arm of information-gathering. This is especially true when speaking of rival countries that were enemies up until recently. So of course there is mutual hostility and information-gathering, including military intelligence," said Elran, a senior researcher at Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies. "In the context of Egyptian-Israeli relations, this is almost natural." |
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Yaakov Lappin , The Jerusalem Post
The cuts to the defense budget proposed by Finance Minister Ronnie Bar-On will hamper the IDF's ability to plan for new weapons systems acquisitions in the coming years, Yehuda Ben-Meir, a senior national security researcher, warned on Tuesday. Bar-On called a press conference at the Finance Ministry on Tuesday morning, in which he said the government had to choose between making cuts to social welfare budgets or to spending on defense. |
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By Julie Stahl, CNSNews.com
Yiftach Shapir, director of the military balance project at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, said as far as Russia is concerned, Israel’s weapons sales to Georgia are “totally insignificant.” Nevertheless, Shapir told CNSNews.com, Russia does not want Israel to sell weapons or training to the Georgians. |
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By Julie Stahl, CNSnews
Yoram Schweitzer from the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv said he is not sure that the new policy gives Hezbollah a “green light” to act against Israel. Hezbollah definitely is trying to deter Israeli over-flights but it is not clear what will come out of it, Schweitzer said. Bringing down an Israeli plane would be a “great accomplishment” for Hezbollah, Schweitzer told CNSNews.com. Israel has been concerned about a Hezbollah attack since last February, when Imad Mugniyeh, a top Hezbollah official, was killed in a car bombing in Damascus. |
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By Daniel Pipes, Daniel Pipes Blog
Yoram Schweitzer has now responded twice to me, and I think it about time to close down his and my exchange, but not before one final, brief reply on my part.(To recapitulate, the sequence, all published in The Jerusalem Post, began on July 21 with my article, "Samir Kuntar and the Last Laugh," which criticized the Israel-Hizbullah exchange; he replied July 24 with "Not That Bad a Deal," disagreeing on specifics and castigating me for even opining on the matter; on July 28, in "May an American Comment on Israel?" I justified my right to an opinion; today, he replied in "Obfuscation and Oversimplification.") |
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By Dominic Moran, ISN Security Watch
The whole establishment of Hamas' strength is based not on the military, terrorist wing but mostly on the social strata which is kind of supporting terrorism and their political stance in Palestinian society," Yoram Schweitzer, who heads the Terrorism and Low Intensity Conflict program at the Institute for National Security Studies, told ISN Security Watch."I think you have to look at these operations within the general context of Israeli attempts to curtail the strengthening of Hamas' infrastructure in the West Bank vis-a-vis the Palestinian Authority," he said. |
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Yaakov Katz and Herb Keinon , The Jerusalem Post
Deputy head of the National Security Council Col. (res.) Shaul Shay said the threat al-Qaida posed Israel was mainly overseas and not from within the country or the Palestinian territories. "I think that if al-Qaida will operate one day from Gaza I don't see a dramatic change in capabilities compared to Hamas," Shay said at a conference on "Evaluating the struggle against al-Qaida" at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. |
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