The next time any of my pro-Israelist readers seek to make the argument that Israel only wants peace and only engages in defensive military operations, they’ll have to deal with this important speech (Hebrew) delivered by Gaby Ashkenazi to a military audience:
Israeli armor to take the battle to the enemy in Golan
Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi spoke today (Tuesday) to participants in a series of combat exercises hosted by the Integrated Land Warfare forces. According to Ashkenazi...Read Full Story
These are the words of IDF Chief Gabi AshkeNazi..
A striking resemblance and parallel to Nazi denial of killing Jews or causing the Holocaust: Nazi Germany was simply moving Jews to what it thought were safer havens for them! Whatever happened at these so-called camps, was unauthorized !
Gabi Ashke N azi said that he did not believe Israeli soldiers harmed Palestinian civilians in “cold blood” during the offensive in the Gaza Strip, in his first response to a Haaretz expose revealing...Read Full Story
Uri Dromi writing in today’s Guardian newspaper tells us, “ Don’t judge Israel’s war crimes” . It is a reasonable request. Any allegations of wrongdoings do need to be fully investigated prior to drawing conclusions, even though the allegations of the use of human shields are severely troubling. We will also agree with some of Dromi’s points in the article that the IDF has been judged in a rushed and harsh manner in the past. It is not the crimes in the heat of war that are causing the...Read Full Story
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IDF chief of staff Ashkenazi: member of the gang that couldn't see straight
The campaign over who will be the next IDF chief of staff, already odd and dysfunctional, has taken a new turn for the bizarre. Everyone who reaches out for this rose seems to get pricked.
Several months ago, defense minister Barak began considering who would become the next chief of staff. The two top candidates were Yoav Galant, who eventually won the job only to be thrown to the winds this week by...Read Full Story
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Anshel Pfeffer's Haaretz report
Haaretz has just published a story that will certainly disappear due to gag order. In it, Anshel Pfeffer writes that Gabi Ashkenazi prepared a video celebrating his achievements as chief of staff, which was screened at a party marking his final day on the job. What is extraordinary about the video is that among the successes of his time in office it credits the bombing of the Syrian nuclear reactor and the Stuxnet virus attack on Iran’s nuclear...Read Full Story
Former IDF chief of General Staff Gabi Ashkenazi said Thursday that Israel must not cut the defense budget in light of the present threats in the Middle East, Army Radio reported. Speaking in Tel Aviv, Ashkenazi also said that "we must act below the radar ...
Ashkenazi: Israel must not cut its budget because shifting strategic realities demand it prepare for war. Former IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi warned, Thursday, that Israel could not afford to cut its defense budget and should prepare itself for war. In comparison to 10 years ago, the possibility of a conflict is not something that we just need to talk about," Ashkenazi said during a lecture at the Institute for National Security Studies...
Ron Paul has made a couple of clever comments that give the (false) impression that Mossad chief Tamir Pardo and former IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi agree with Paul on Iran. Shmuel Rosner explains.2.On caucus day, Senator Rand Paul made references both on TV (CNN, Wolf Blitzer) and in other interviews to some notable Israelis. He named both the head of Mossad Tamir Pardo, and the former
Former IDF chief of General Staff Gabi Ashkenazi said Thursday that the recent developments in Syria could have positive impacts on Israel. "In my opinion, no Sunni government will ever go as far with Iran as Assad did. [The protests] are already affecting ...
Former IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Gabi Ashkenazi worked together with Boaz Harpaz, the alleged forger of the so-called Harpaz Document, to gather dirt on Defense Minister Ehud Barak and several of his close associates, according to Channel 2’s ...
Two days after the assassination of Hizbullah terror chief Iman Mughniyeh, IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen Gabi Ashkenazi on Thursday issued a statement ordering the Navy, IAF ...
For the first time in over two years, IDF reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev were reunited with their families in a mournful homecoming at the Shraga military base, south of Nahariya, Wednesday night. Families of Goldwasser and Regev mourn at ...