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I have a word a warning that I must share with you today: War is coming to Israel. Over the years, I have written and spoken many things about the future—things which have come to pass. I told Benjamin Netanyahu nearly thirty years ago that he would be prime minister of Israel twice…He is now in his second term. I wrote that Osama bin Laden would attack the United States; he did. I wrote that there would be an Islamic revolution which would spread through Egypt, Libya, Syria, and other Middle Eastern countries; it happened. I told you that I...

Israel’s Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Strategic Affairs, Moshe Ya’alon, gave a special interview to Arutz Sheva on Wednesday for Rosh Hashanah. During the interview Ya’alon summed up last week’s events in the United Nations and said that Israel should not conduct negotiations with the Palestinian Authority as long as its current leadership remains the same. Arutz Sheva: One can summarize the events at the UN and say that you are quite satisfied with Netanyahu’s speech. Ya’alon: We’re satisfied not just with Netanyahu’s speech but also by the Palestinians’ failure to make their unilateral move. The Palestinians have been...

Republican US presidential candidate Herman Cain advised Israel's leadership on Sunday to not make any concessions at all to the Palestinian Authority. Speaking at a press conference at Jerusalem's King David Hotel on a visit to the holy land, Cain criticized the policies of US President Barack Obama and said that if elected president in 2012, he would do everything possible to repair the damage he said Obama had done to the US-Israel relationship. "This may get me in trouble but I do not care," Cain said. "I think the Israeli people is more interested in peace than the Palestinians....

Israel's largest daily newspaper, Yediot Ahronot, reported on Wednesday that the Obama Administration is threatening Israel to either apologize to Turkey over its bloody interception of a Gaza aid flotilla last year, or risk strained ties with Washington. Israeli diplomats in Washington told the newspaper that they had received a communique from US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insisting that the rift between Israel and Turkey was harming American interests in the region, such as affecting regime change in neighboring Syria. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan demands that Israel publicly apologize for intercepting a May 2010 "humanitarian aid" flotilla...

Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon said Monday that Turkey's demand for an Israeli apology for deaths aboard the Gaza flotilla last year constitutes "chutzpah." Speaking on Voice of Israel government-run radio, Yaalon noted that the flotilla – which pitted armed thugs against IDF soldiers, while posing as a humanitarian mission – was a provocation, and that Ankara bears some of the responsibility for this. Turkey wants to "stand Israel in the corner" and raise its own prestige in the eyes of the Arabs, Hizbullah and Hamas at Israel's expense, he added. "The Turkish policy will not change if we apologize,"...

73% of 1,010 Palestinians in W. Bank, Gaza agree with 'hadith' quoted in Hamas Charter about the need to kill Jews hiding behind stones, trees. Only one in three Palestinians (34 percent) accepts two states for two peoples as the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to an intensive, face-to-face survey in Arabic of 1,010 Palestinian adults in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip completed this week by American pollster Stanley Greenberg. The poll, which has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points, was conducted in partnership with the Beit Sahour-based Palestinian Center for Public Opinion and sponsored...

JERUSALEM: On a day of remembrance for Israel's fallen soldiers yesterday, Israeli Chief of Staff Moshe Yaalon warned the army would continue to assassinate leaders of radical Palestinian movements. "Pre-emptive strikes will continue because they undeniably weaken terrorist organisations," General Yaalon told public radio in an interview marking Israel's Remembrance Day. But he admitted the killing of militant Palestinian leaders did "not immediately dent the motivation" of radical organisations and risked fanning the flames of violence through retaliatory attacks. The speech came as Palestinian fighters fired on a military vehicle in the southern West Bank near Hebron yesterday, killing an...

Army Chief Says Israel Prepared for Iraqi Attack Sun Sep 15, 7:39 AM ET By Megan Goldin JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli army chief Moshe Yaalon said Sunday that Israel was prepared for an attack by Iraq as a conflict with Baghdad loomed after Washington said it would act against Saddam Hussein with or without world support. Iraq fired 39 Scud missiles armed with conventional warheads at Israel during the 1991 U.S.-led Gulf War but Israeli officials fear this time Baghdad could fire non-conventional weapons if it feels the United States is about to oust Saddam. Yaalon said Israel's armed forces...

The US media almost entirely ignores news regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran. As Tony Snow of the Fox News Network has put it, “this is probably the most under-reported news story of the year.” But most American’s are unaware that the Islamic Republic of Iran is NOT supported by the masses of Iranians today. Modern Iranians are among the most pro-American in the Middle East. There is a popular revolt against the Iranian regime brewing in Iran today. Starting June 10th of this year, Iranians have begun taking to the streets to express their desire for a regime change....

Former Chief of Staff, Moshe (Bogi) Ya'alon says that Israel has a military option against Iran's nuclear program and that it should not take it out of consideration. In a speech at the Hudson Institute - a Washington think tank - this Tuesday, Ya'alon gave a rare detailed description of Israel's military possibilities regarding Iran. He acknowledged the fact that Iran has its nuclear programs spread out in many sites and said that Israel can overcome the Iranian air defense system and carry out air strikes against several dozen sites which are used for the nuclear development project. According to...

<p>The former number two official in Saddam Hussein's Iraqi air force claims the former Iraqi dictator moved weapons of mass destruction from Iraq to Syria in the months preceding the current Iraq war.</p>

First, some real Headlines: The NY Sun reported yesterday that a top Israeli general for the past several years said that Saddam Hussein moved his Weapons of Mass Destruction to Syria. “The Israeli officer, Lieutenant General Moshe Yaalon, asserted that Saddam spirited his chemical weapons out of the country on the eve of the war. "He transferred the chemical agents from Iraq to Syria," General Yaalon told The New York Sun over dinner in New York on Tuesday night. "No one went to Syria to find it." From July 2002 to June 2005, when he retired, General Yaalon was chief...

Saddam Hussein moved his chemical weapons to Syria six weeks before the war started, Israel's top general during Operation Iraqi Freedom says. The assertion comes as President Bush said yesterday that much of the intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was incorrect. The Israeli officer, Lieutenant General Moshe Yaalon, asserted that Saddam spirited his chemical weapons out of the country on the eve of the war. "He transferred the chemical agents from Iraq to Syria," General Yaalon told The New York Sun over dinner in New York on Tuesday night. "No one went to Syria to find it."

Jan. 18, 2005 0:49 | Updated Jan. 18, 2005 20:50 Sharon: Kassam attacks can't continue By MARGOT DUDKEVITCH AND NINA GILBERT Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, PM Ariel Sharon, and Chief of Staff Moshe Yaalon visit an army base at the Erez border crossing between Gaza Strip and Israel. Photo: AP During a visit to the IDF Gaza Division on Tuesday, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon discussed strategies to bring an end to the incessant Kassam rocket attacks and mortar shell fire towards Israeli towns and settlements originating from Palestinian villages in the area. Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, IDF Chief of Staff...

Dec. 13, 2004 20:20 Ya'alon: West must be prepared to strike Iran By ARIEH O'SULLIVAN IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Moshe Ya'alon indicated Monday that Israel and the West needed to be prepared for using "other options" against Iran if diplomatic pressures don't prevent Teheran from acquiring nuclear weapons. "We believe that there is a chance of success when talking about the elimination of the Iranian capabilities of weapons of mass destruction, first of all using political and economic resolutions," Ya'alon told a conference on security and economics. "From my point of view and my recommendation, this has to...

IDF to remain in Gaza indefinitely CoS Ye'elon: We will not withdraw until the Kassam threat to Sderot has been eliminated. Plans to call up reserve units shelved for now. Amir Buhbut CoS Lt. Gen. Ye'elonIDF CoS Lt. General Moshe (Boogie) Ye'elon has said that the IDF will remain in Gaza for as long as is neccessary. "Operation Days of Penitence was launched in oder to put an end to the Kassam menace, which has become intolerable, and until this is achieved IDF forces will not leave Gaza". Speaking to reporters, he emphasized that the IDF was not out...

Oct. 29, 2003 Political uproar over army's 'political' talk By JPOST.COM STAFF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Moshe Ya'alon Photo: AP Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Wednesday called for the resignation of the 'senior military official' who told Israeli media that Israel's closure policies in the West Bank and Gaza Strip were "working against Israel's strategic interests," before he knew that the senior military official was none other than IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Moshe Ya'alon. On Tuesday, columnists from three Israeli newspapers were called in for a briefing with "senior military officials," later identified by Israeli television...

Mar. 11, 2003 Intelligence official: Iraqis believe Saddam can survive war By NINA GILBERT The Iraqis believe that Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and his regime can survive a war waged on Iraq by the US, a senior IDF Intelligence Branch official said in the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Tuesday. Chief of General Staff Lt. Moshe Ya'alon told the committee that the likelihood of an Iraqi attack on Israel is considered to be "extremely low." Ya'alon said this is the conclusion drawn from the assessment that Hussein would only try to attack Israel and bring it into the war...

Feb. 12, 2003 IDF Chief: Israel will know how to use its "long arm" if attacked By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Moshe Ya'alon said Tuesday he would be surprised if the United States does not attack Iraq, and he expected the war to last weeks, not months. Yaalon said Israel must be prepared to defend itself against Iraqi attacks in response to a US-led assault. He did not rule out Israeli retaliation, though he stopped well short of an explicit threat. Referring to Israel's retaliatory capability as the military's "long arm," he said, "To the extent...

JERUSALEM: Israeli military operations have seriously damaged the "terror infrastructure" in the West Bank, but more work needs to be done in the Gaza Strip, Israel's army chief of staff said in remarks published on Saturday. “The terror infrastructure in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) has been hit hard," General Moshe Yaalon was quoted in the Haaretz daily as saying in a speech to a Tel Aviv business group. "In the Gaza Strip there is still a long way to go.” Without mentioning Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat by name, Yaalon said the decision to end Palestinian "terror" could only...