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| August 19, 2012
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U.S. and Israel conduct joint naval exercises in Med

A 4-day exercise included use of live fire, & U.S. participants included guided-missile destroyers that would be used to help Israel defend against Iranian missiles.

 

The U.S. and Israeli navies conducted a joint search-and-rescue exercise in the Mediterranean Sea last week. The four-day exercise, known as Reliant Mermaid, included the use of live fire, and the U.S. participants included Aegis guided-missile destroyers of the type that would in theory be used to help defend Israel against Iranian missiles. But the exercise didn’t include any missile interceptions – though such interceptions are supposed to be part of a bigger joint exercise in another two months. Continue Reading »

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| August 15, 2012
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‘US trying to sway Israeli public opinion against Iranian strike

After comments by Head of Joint Chiefs of Staff Dempsey & U.S. Defense Secretary Panetta, sources say American officials are briefing Israeli media against pre-emptive Iranian attack

By Yoni Hirsch, Eli Leon, Shlomo Cesana, Mati Tuchfeld, Gideon Alon and News Agencies

 

Israel suspects that senior figures in the U.S. administration have been briefing local media outlets in recent weeks against a pre-emptive Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities in an attempt to sway Israeli public opinion, according to reports.

Pannetta and Dempsey briefing the media on Tuesday. Photo: Getty Images

Pannetta and Dempsey briefing the media on Tuesday.
Photo: Getty Images

At a joint briefing with General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the U.S. Continue Reading »

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| August 13, 2012
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Report: Israel Assured by the U.S. that it will Join War on Its Side

The Obama administration and Romney camp have both reportedly told Israel the U.S. will provide a protective umbrella against Iran.

By Gil Ronen

 

Israel has received assurances from the administration of Barack Obama, as well as the camp of Republican presumptive nominee, Mitt Romney, that the United States will join a war against Iran on Israel’s side, if such a war breaks out.

USS Nimitz

USS Nimitz
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The daily newspaper Maariv reported Monday that the assurances were delivered in secret messages to senior officials in the bureau of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, from officials close to Obama and from Romney political advisors as well as Republicans who served in senior roles in former administrations and are expected to serve in important roles again if Romney is elected. Continue Reading »

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| August 11, 2012
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Defense-Update Report: F-35 fighter conducts 1st weapons test

Wednesday’s low altitude test checked the futuristic fighter-bomber drop a 1,000-lb (454 kg) GBU-32 JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition)  inert smart bomb • Israel, the 1st foreign country to obtain the advanced stealth jet is expected to be allowed to outfit the plane’s systems with  Israeli technology.

By the Israel Hayom Staff

 

The F-35 Lightning II fighter jet successfully completed its first weapon separation test on Wednesday (August 8, 2012) on a test flight. The release was the first time for any version of the F-35 to conduct an airborne weapon separation, and the first time a full separation test was performed with a weapon dropped from the internal weapon bay, the Defense-Update website reported Friday.

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| August 5, 2012
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Rumsfeld Supports Netanyahu: Sanctions are not Enough

Donald Rumsfeld says PM Netanyahu is totally correct: Sanctions won’t work, & Israel should not tell the US of its plans to attack Iran

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is totally correct that sanctions will not stop Iran’s drive for nuclear capability, and Israel would not have to advise the United States of any plans to attack Iran, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told Fox News.

“I think the prime minister of Israel, Netanyahu, is probably correct. Their intelligence on Iran is excellent. Sanctions tend not to work very well over a long period of time, and they do have the effect, tending to damage and hurt the people, as opposed to the governments,” said the former Cabinet officer in the Bush administration. Continue Reading »

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| August 3, 2012
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Defense Report: America’s Attack Plans for Iran

An Israeli newspaper says American officials shared their country’s military plans for hitting Iran’s nuclear program.

By Maayana Miskin

 

United States Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta was in Israel this week to talk with Israeli leaders about Iran’s nuclear program. Now the Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot is reporting that Panetta shared America’s contingency plan in case talks with Iran fail to halt its nuclear program.

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta

Panetta may have shared the plan to assuage Israeli leaders’ concerns that the United States is putting undue confidence in the efficacy of sanctions.

The plan would reportedly be put into effect only in one and a half years. Continue Reading »

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| August 1, 2012
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Israeli Hi-Tech Radar Will Protect US-Mexican Border

The U.S. has selected an Israeli company for the placement of a radar system to detect infiltrators at the border with Mexico.

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

 

The United States has selected an Israeli company for the placement of a radar system to detect infiltrators at the border with Mexico.

Mexican Soldiers inspect the entrance of a cross border tunnel running to California and seized some

Mexican Soldiers inspect the entrance of a cross border tunnel running to California and seized contraband and infiltrators. – Reuters

Elta, a subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), won the tender with its systems that can identify individuals from distances between 300 meters and 20 kilometers (approximately 13 miles), and vehicles from twice that distance. Continue Reading »

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| August 1, 2012
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PM: Time is running out to resolve Iran’s standoff peacefully.

Panetta suggests that the US is prepared to use military force. Says: “we have options that we are prepared to implement to ensure” Iran doesn’t obtain a nuclear weapon.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that time was running out to resolve the conflict with Iran over its nuclear program peacefully.

Netanyahu made his remarks at the opening of his meeting with visiting US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.

Leon Panetta and Binyamin Netanyahu. - Photo: Moshe Milner/GPO

Leon Panetta and Binyamin Netanyahu. – Photo: Moshe Milner/GPO

The prime minister said that Iran believed that the international community was not actually serious or committed in trying to stop it from obtaining nuclear weapons.

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| July 30, 2012
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Let My People Know: Barack Obama Is Not Good for Israel

At a recent press conference when insistent journalists asked James Carney, Obama’s press secretary, what the White House considered Israel’s capital, Carney, adamantly evasive, refused six times to say Jerusalem.

By Aliza Davidovit

 

There is the old joke that if you have two Jews in a room you will have three opinions. But thanks to President Barack Obama, he has been able to accomplish what even Moses couldn’t do, create a consensus among Jews, well at least Israeli Jews. They have by a strong majority united on one thing: They don’t like President Obama. A recent poll commissioned by the Begin Sadat Center at Bar Ilan University and the Anti-Defamation League revealed that only 32% of Israelis have a positive view of Obama as compared to 2009, when his likeability among them was at 54%. Continue Reading »

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| July 29, 2012
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US defense legislation to equip Israel with tanker-refueling jets

Signed legislation aims to enhance US-Israeli security.  Cooperation was more than an attempt by Obama to upstage Romney, it allows Israel to acquire equipment that could facilitate Iran strike.

By Yitzhak Benhorin

 

 

WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama‘s well-publicized signing of a bill aiming to enhance security cooperation between the US and Israel appears to have been timed to upstage Republican challenger Mitt Romney‘s trip to Israel, but officials say the measure was more than just a strategic photo op. The legislation could mark a significant step towards acquiring military equipment Israel has long sought to have. Continue Reading »

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| July 29, 2012
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Netanyahu flatly denies AP story on Israel’s spying on the CIA

“Counterintelligence is the art of protecting national secrets from spies. This means the CIA believes that US national secrets are safer from other Middle Eastern governments than from Israel,”

 

Earlier on Saturday, the Associated Press had run an in-depth report quoting anonymous US intelligence officials incriminating members of Israeli security services. The article, which was headlined by AP, “US sees Israel, tight Mideast ally, as spy threat,” described certain instances where Central Intelligence Agency officers stationed in Israel found that their secured locked boxes had been “tampered” with. In a different case, a CIA officer’s fridge had been “rearranged.”

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| July 29, 2012
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US sees Israel as ‘a frustrating ally & a genuine counterintelligence threat’

CIA links Israeli intelligence to home break-ins in Tel Aviv; said to consider Israel a top spy threat in Near East Division. – Israel denies report

By Yitzhak Benhorin, AP

 

WASHINGTON – The homes of several CIA agents residing in Israel have been broken into recently and according to the United States government, it is likely that Israeli intelligence is linked to the cases.

CIA headquarters in Virginia – Photo: Reuters

In the most recent case, the CIA station chief stationed in Tel Aviv discovered that sensitive equipment he used to communicate with CIA headquarters in Virginia was tampered with it. Continue Reading »

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| July 27, 2012
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Lockheed Martin & US reach deal on F-35 fighter jets for Israel

This marks a big step forward for Israel’s $2.75 billion agreement to buy 19 F-35 jets, which was signed in October 2010 and includes options for up to 75 of the radar-evading fighters.

By Reuters

 

 

The Pentagon has reached an agreement with Lockheed Martin Corp on a $450 million program to enhance electronic warfare equipment on the F-35 fighter jet, and integrate Israeli-unique systems beginning in 2016, sources, according to sources familiar with the negotiations.

The deal, to be finalized in coming weeks, marks a big step forward for Israel’s $2.75 billion agreement to buy 19 F-35 jets, which was signed in October 2010 and includes options for up to 75 of the radar-evading fighters. Continue Reading »

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| July 26, 2012
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Just a day before Romney’s visit, Obama is to sign an act expanding US military cooperation with Israel

By signing the U.S.-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act, Obama is trying to upstage Romney for the presidency, as he arrives for an official visit to Israel.

By Barak Ravid

The White House may be trying to steal the thunder from Republican candidate Mitt Romney on the eve of his visit to Jerusalem. A day before Romney is due to land in Israel, U.S. President Barack Obama will sign the United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act, which is meant to approve and expand military cooperation between the two countries.

U.S. President Barack Obama

U.S. President Barack Obama. – Photo by AP

The act, which Congress passed a week ago, will be signed by the U.S. Continue Reading »

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| July 25, 2012
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The United States is in a Serious Drought, and Israel Can Help

Israeli Water Desalination expert has solutions for the current drought in the US.

By Gideon Israel

 

The New York Times reported recently that the current drought afflicting the US, which has spread to more than half of the continental United States, is the most widespread drought in more than half a century – and it appears that conditions will worsen.

There have been forecasts of increased dry conditions over the central United States, a development which could lead to higher food prices and shipping costs.  The government has declared nearly 1,300 counties across 29 states a federal disaster area as a result of the drought. Continue Reading »

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