Word: giora
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Israeli politicians and generals were bungling the war, and that soldiers' lives were being needlessly lost. That hasn't happened yet, but already a few retired generals are starting to complain that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his cabinet are dithering. Says former National Security Council Chief Maj. Gen. Giora Eiland, "Either reach a cease-fire in two to three days, or start a big military operation that will take at least two weeks. We've been beating around the bush for a week, and we need to make a decision...
...reaching out to forces within Hamas that might steer Gaza in a more constructive direction. True, Hamas refuses to recognize Israel, but there are some signs that it sees compromise to be in its self-interest. Hamas has reason to avoid provoking Israel--in part because, as Major General Giora Eiland, retired head of Israel's National Security Council, says, "military targets in Gaza just got a lot clearer. There's only one color now--and that's Hamas." On June 20, Israel fired missiles at rocket launchers in northern Gaza and engaged in a firefight with militants, killing four...
...power if it proceeds undeterred with its clandestine program. Like North Korea, Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), the diplomatic edifice erected in 1970 precisely to deter countries from going nuclear. (Pyongyang formally withdrew from the NPT in 2003.) The North Korean test, says General Giora Eiland, Israel's former National Security Adviser, means "Iran will reach the obvious conclusion--that nobody will stop them...
...five major private banks and Moshe Mandelbaum, governor of the government-run Bank of Israel, which is the country's counterpart to the U.S. Federal Reserve. The commission urged that four of the five executives be barred for life from the industry. By week's end Mandelbaum and Giora Gazit, managing director of Bank Hapoalim, had resigned...
...news, the site is a curious thing--utterly compelling while still managing to be amateurish, disorganized and not always believable. Where does it get its stuff? A network of sources "in the military, in intelligence, ex-intelligence people, political people, ex-political people, business people, arms dealers," says Giora Shamis, 62, the site's editor. Named one of USA Today's Hot Sites recently, DEBKA draws 150,000 visitors a day. I'm not the only one having trouble not watching...