...and unskilled ultra-Orthodox Jews in their ranks. While actual numbers are classified, experts say the size of the Israeli army has been cut in recent years as manpower needs recede. One piece of evidence is the steadily dropping maximum age for...
...Sharon, at the time Israeli defense minister, who in the early 1980s knowingly stood by in southern Lebanon with the Israeli Army and calmly watched as the Lebanese Christian militia entered two Palestinian refugee camps and systematically massacred...
...there will be no peace. We have the luxury to play with facts, adjust dates, and assert opinions. However, what the Israeli army is now doing in Palestinian areas is attacking and arresting suspected terrorists because Arafat will not. Do you blame...
...adviser to Barak, said the announcement was unnecessary. Rajoub called it ³State Department propaganda.² The Israeli army chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Shaul Mofaz, said his forces are always on alert for terror attacks, but there are no...
...As terror reigned and weapons poured in from Arab countries using the Palestinians as fodder in a war by proxy, the Israeli army came onto the scene. Looks like an occupation, doesn't it? The Empire left the story hanging on an ugly note that...
...military tanker plane crashed in western Pakistan, killing all seven Marines on board. Two Islamic militants stormed an Israeli army post near the Gaza Strip, killing four soldiers before being shot dead in a gun battle.
...26 vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of beasts. The two men conclude that there's a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. As Ari delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, his memory...
...Yatom, an adviser to Barak, said the announcement was unnecessary. Rajoub called it State Department propaganda. The Israeli army chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Shaul Mofaz, said his forces are always on alert for terror attacks, but there are no...
...is the perfect cleaner for the job. After all, they were formed in response to the 1982 invasion of Lebanon by the Israeli Army, funded largely by us. There's a glaring inconsistency here, aside from a nation once born to resist tyranny that...
...Thanks in part to the influence of Rabbi Meltzer, Menachem gets the chance to create his own elite Orthodox unit for the Israeli army. Menachem also has a quiet crush on the rabbi's daughter Michal. He and Michal are both distraught when the rabbi...
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