Tag Archives: Tel aviv

Aug 8 2012

israel supports regime change in Syria: israeli spy chief

Israeli spy chief and Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor (R) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (file photo)

The Israeli spy chief says Tel Aviv supports regime change in Syria, amid ongoing efforts by the anti-Syria governments to oust President Bashar al-Assad.

“I hope it (regime change in Syria) will happen, even though I don’t know when or how,” Dan Meridor, who also serves as the deputy prime minister of the Tel Aviv regime, said on Tuesday.

He also expressed “hope” that the “new Syria will understand that joining Iran is a mistake that brings isolation from the Western world.”

The latest remarks by the Israeli official come as anti-Syria Western regimes along with Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Qatar have been supporting insurgents inside Syria.  Continue reading →

Aug 5 2012

israeli attack on Iran to end tel Aviv regime: Vahidi

Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi

Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi has warned that any military adventurism by the israeli regime against Tehran would mean self-destruction for Tel Aviv.

“The Zionist regime (Israel) knows that attacking Iran is an unattainable wish, unless the regime seeks to commit suicide,” Vahidi said on Sunday.

The Iranian defense minister denounced Israel’s military threats against Iran and its plots against Syria as Tel Aviv’s psychological warfare aimed at breaking Tel Aviv’s isolation.

Despite that, Vahidi pointed out, the Israeli regime cannot break free from historical realities and its inherent ineptitudes.  Continue reading →

May 24 2012

Israeli Night of Broken Glass: Africans attacked in Tel Aviv anti-migrant demo (PHOTOS)

Hundreds of people demonstrate in the impoverished Hatikva neighborhood of the southern Mediterranean city of Tel Aviv on May 23, 2012

[Editor's note: israelis basically stole the land they're living on from Palestinian using violence and terrorist techniques. They are still doing so, on a daily basis. Expanding their illegal settlements projects. Now they want to expulse Africans seeking asylum because they "invade" their land? This is inhuman and proves one thing. israelis don't even know they're own history. Or pretend not to know... ]

Thousands of Israelis, including high-profile politicians, attended an anti-African demonstration in Tel Aviv. The rally turned violent, with attacks on Africans and grocery shop windows being smashed.

The gathering, which took place in Tel Aviv’s Hatikva neighborhood, targeted the influx of African asylum seekers and was organized by Michael Ben Ari, a Knesset member from the National Union party, along with far-right activists Itamar Ben-Guir and Baruch Marzel, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports.

Many protesters also blamed the government, and Benjamin Netanyahu specifically, for inaction.

But the rally was also attended by politicians from the ruling Likud party, including Knesset members Miri Regev and Danny Danon. While Regev described asylum seekers as a “cancer in our body,” Danon said the “infiltrators” had to be immediately expelled from Israel.

“We should not be afraid to say the words ‘expulsion now,‘” Danon was reported as saying. Continue reading →

Jan 15 2012

US, Israel in open rift over Iran, cancel a joint military drill

USS Abraham Lincoln and its battle group is on its way to the Persian Gulf as the US builds up military presence around Iran
The US and Israel cancel a joint military drill, which was originally scheduled to be held in spring, in what seems to be a sign of deepening rifts between the age-old allies

On January 5, Israeli military announced that Tel Aviv is gearing up for a major missile defense exercise, codenamed Austere Challenge 12, with US forces.

According to DEBKAfile, a recent comment by Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon sparked a dispute between Washington and Tel Aviv and prompted the White House to call off the January 15 drill.

Speaking in an early morning radio interview, the Israeli official said the United States was hesitant over sanctions against Iran’s Central Bank and oil sector for fear of a spike in oil prices.

Following his interview, Washington announced that the exercise had been officially postponed from spring 2012 to the last quarter of the year over “budgetary constraints” – an obvious diplomatic locution for cancellation.

An unnamed military source told DEBKAfile that the White House made the announcement urgently at an unusually early hour Washington time to underscore the Obama administration’s total disassociation from any preparations to attack Iran. Washington also aimed to stress its position that if an attack took place, Israel alone would be accountable.  Continue reading →