Word: barak
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...Plan Three, said to be favored by Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, calls for occasional ground strikes into Gaza and an increase in assassinations of Hamas's political and military leadership. "It wouldn't be Ismael Haniyeh [the Hamas leader and ex-Prime Minister], but it would be those right under him," one source told TIME. Until now, Israel has refrained from targeting Hamas's political leadership since they are not involved in the rocket attacks on Israel - the rocketeers usually belong to Islamic Jihad and other smaller Palestinian militant groups. "We want Hamas on the run so that...
This manpower shortage led Defense Minister Ehud Barak to complain recently that the IDF was no longer "the army of the people but of half the people." That leaves new Russian and Ethiopian immigrants, along with religious Zionists, to fill the ranks. Meanwhile, to ensure that the IDF remains a melting pot, some generals say that special units, comprised of religious Zionists who spend two-thirds of their time in religious studies, should be more integrated into the regular army...
...responsibility is aggravated by the fact that he knew well that both the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense lacked adequate knowledge and experience in these matters.” Neither Olmert nor Peretz have high-level leadership experience in the military, in contrast to predecessors like Ehud Barak and Yitzhak Rabin, who had both served in Halutz’s position before entering elected politics. According to a report in Monday’s Jerusalem Post, Halutz had Harvard University Police Department officers block Israeli reporters who were seeking to interview him. HUPD did not respond to requests...
...Olmert's key rivals, Benjamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak, are both former prime ministers whose track record in office failed to persuade voters to reelect them. Both men have so far refrained from moving in for the kill, lest they seem overzealous of taking advantage of what was a national calamity. Or perhaps they sense that Olmert has been mortally wounded, and will be unable to survive the Winograd judgment regardless of his own intentions. Not only have his approval ratings crashed to around 2 percent, but he is also under official investigation over allegations of financial misdoings - although these...
...state that is 60 percent Mormon and not usually considered a top source of political dollars.” This reference is striking because of the lack of any comparable identifiers for other candidates and donors. Not mentioned, for example, is the fact that both Sen. Barak H. Obama and his donor Kirkland and Elliis Professor of Law David B. Wilkins ’77 are black, and blacks are not usually a top source of political dollars. If many of the Clinton contributors were Jewish, would The Crimson be sure to state that fact? News media ought to avoid...