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Report: Hezbollah Building Buffer Zone

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“Hezbollah is building up reinforcements north of the Litani river in anticipation of another potential war with Israel.”

“The group is reportedly being aided in its enterprise by Shi’ite businessman Ali Tajiddine, a diamond trader with close ties to Hizbullah, who has begun buying large tracts of land from their Christian and Druse owners to serve as Hezbollah’s base of operations.”

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Gideon Levy Column Misreads significance of Peretz’s Binoculars Incident, by Dr. Aaron Lerner (IMRA)

The significance of the incident last week in which DM Amir Peretz went through the motions of appearing to follow a briefing of a large military exercise with field glasses – when he actually could not see since there were caps on the binoculars, is that he apparently lacked the self confidence to tell anyone that there was a problem.

If Peretz was too embarrassed to tell someone that the binoculars weren’t working what else has he been too embarrassed to say anything about? Does this make him a DM who can be easily snowballed? How effective can a DM be if he is too embarrassed to tell the people on his team when he can’t see what is going on? read more

By Akiva Eldar (Haaretz)

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The Supreme Planning Council for Judea and Samaria recently legalized the… construction project in the West Bank. Part of the project is situated on private land, which belongs to Palestinian residents of the village of Bil’in.