Tag: Ehud Barak

Barak took the opportunity to reiterate that "All options remain firmly on the table."

A force of at least 120 Border Guard police in more than 15 vehicles arrived on Monday night at the outpost of Ramat Migron, near the village of Migron in Judea and Samaria, barging into an area where a wedding of two local residents was to being prepared, and presented local residents with an order declaring the place a closed military zone.

The INS Tanin cost approximately $500 million, one-third of which was funded by the German Government, and is slated to arrive in Israel next year.

Israel's Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz Sunday morning objected during the weekly cabinet meeting to the court-ordained plan to evacuate and demolish the Ulpana Hill neighborhood in Beit El.

Police dismantle Yissa Bracha, near Mitzpe Yericho, early Thursday morning.

Barak insists Israel coordinating with US on Iran.

Israel’s intensifying readiness to launch a military strike against Iran has met with a negative US response, with top government officials being dispatched to the Jewish state in the attempt to thwart an attack.

Obama fears Israel will strike Iranian nuclear facilities.

Suspected 'price tag' follows evacuation of outpost near Shiloh.

Ehud Barak and Dimitris Avramopoulos pledge to deepen bilateral ties.

Syrian President Bashar Assad’s popularity continues to slide, with at least 10,000 soldiers in the army defecting.

Iran has the capability to produce an atomic bomb within a year, according to US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta in an interview on CBS News Monday night.

A group of 50 young residents of Judea and Samaria broke in to an IDF base early Tuesday morning, in response to orders given to destroy nearby Jewish communities.

When Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak attempted to break the link between the Har Bracha Hesder Yeshiva and the IDF (Israel Defense Forces), few of us were surprised. Ehud Barak is the head of the Labor Party who seems to be using this anti-religious "weapon" in order to make a political comeback for his failing leftist party. His anti-religious position is well known, and his attempt to discredit Rabbi Eliezer Melamed and the Hesder Yeshiva movement is not unexpected. In the past, other politicians have used their opposition to religion to improve their political status, and Barak knows that he and his party are falling apart.

It would seem that in recent years conservative candidates in both Israel and the U.S. have forgotten how to win an election.

The Israeli Labor Party recently selected Ehud Barak, who had been prime minister from 1999 to 2001, to serve as its party chief and contender for prime minister in the next election, probably in 2008.

By the time you read this article, Arafat will have died, and many will say good riddance.

Imagine, just for a moment, that a leftist prime minister of Israel (say, Ehud Barak) hadpresided over a government that oversaw the greatest decline in personal security in Israel'shistory, with the terrorist murders of more than 1,000 Israelis.

Shlomo Ben Ami was Israel's foreign minister under Ehud Barak and served as the lead Israeli negotiator at the Camp David summit in 2000.

The hegemony over the Hebrew press in Israel by the far Left has always been a threat to Israeli democracy. The Left utilizes its near-monopoly over the press to promote its extremist and defeatist agenda in a naked manner. The Oslo debacle would never have occurred without Israel's far Left exercising near-totalitarian control over the Hebrew press and electronic media.