Hizbullah recognized Israel’s primary weakness, and Syria is now doing the same. While problems were discovered during the war in the performance of Israeli infantry and armored troops, overall, in almost all the battles, the IDF emerged victorious. The Achilles heel, if we can call it that, was the handling of the home front. Hizbullah [...]

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CARACAS, Jul 18 (IPS) - The announcement that Venezuela is buying five Russian submarines triggered alarm that a conventional arms build-up is occurring in a country that has adopted the defence doctrine of asymmetric war, or one involving ” all of the people.”
The submarines will cost more than one billion dollars, in addition to [...]

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Members of the pro-Kremlin youth movement “Nashi” (In English - Ours)attend a lecture in the Nashi summer camp on Lake Seliger north-west of Moscow July 17, 2007.
LAKE SELIGER, Russia (Reuters) - At a lakeside camp five hours drive north of Moscow, 10,000 young Russians are learning why President Vladimir Putin is such a brilliant leader [...]

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Britain and the West need to resist Russian excesses, but also to do business with the regime.
State-sponsored lawlessness inside Russia, it is now clear, is a concern for the rest of the world too, a worry intensified by the reckless murder method: poisoning by radioactive polonium. As the British government argued this week, when it [...]

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Even with its strength as one of the world’s largest oil producers, Iran is dependent on foreign energy and is taking stiff measures to rectify the situation.
Using oil as geo-strategic weapon
“Oil is both Iran’s strategic strong point and its strategic weak point,” an Iranian political scientist told ISN Security Watch on the condition of anonymity. [...]

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Herzog, who held the tourism portfolio during the war, began his testimony optimistically: “I constantly claim, as painful as the war was, that we were lucky that it started at the time it did and not several years from now.”
Herzog added that “the war exposed our weaknesses and perhaps even brought about some amendments. The [...]

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Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Sallai Meridor, said Wednesday that Israel and the free world are under attack by Iran, with a combination of fanaticism, terrorism and nuclear capability posing the most serious threat since the 1930s.
“We must prevent this nightmare,” Meridor said at the “Night to Honor Israel” event, part of the second [...]

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“There is an opportunity today since the world has not yet become accustomed to the new Hamas entity, and Hamas has not yet fully completed strengthening it’s military capabilities,” the officer said, adding that Israel was on a “collision course” with the Islamist group.
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Senior IDF officer: Israel on collision course with Hamas
Jerusalem [...]

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In the grand tradition of the Cold War, Russia staged a press conference on Wednesday to lambaste Western security structures. The star of the show was Yevgeny Buzhinsky, head of the Russian Defense Ministry’s international legal department. Buzhinsky’s tongue practically danced in response to journalists’ questions. Honestly, we’ve seen Broadway productions that are less scripted [...]

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WASHINGTON, July 19 (RIA Novosti) - The risks of an accidental nuclear war have increased since the Cold war as Russia’s early warning capability has deteriorated, a former U.S. defense official said.
William J. Perry, who is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and co-Director of the Preventive Defense Project at Stanford University, said in [...]

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Before discussing whether this will lead to a new Cold War, someone has to ask the question: does Russia need Europe, and does Europe need Russia? And what do experienced Western leaders really believe about the New Russia?
“Talk of a new Cold War, though, is wrong” – so says Sir Rodric Braithwaite, who served as [...]

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For unbiased reporting, do not rely upon mainstream media coverage of the largest terrorism financing case in American history. To avoid falling prey to their outrageous propaganda, read this riveting exposé by FSM Contributing Editor Steven Emerson.

HLF’s P.R. Blitz: “Islamophobia” and Apple Pie
By Steven Emerson
Yesterday, jury selection began in the largest terrorism financing case [...]

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