Moshe Ya'alon
A US Official’s ‘Blistering’—but Anonymous—Response to Israeli Insults
By Richard Edmondson
The US-Israel “special relationship” is unprecedented in world history. And not only that, it violates the laws of nature.
Never before in recorded history has a large, powerful nation come to be dominated by a small country with substantially lesser military capabilities. It has never happened. Yet such a conquest has fallen upon America.
Israel prepares world opinion for high civilian casualties in any future war with Hezbollah
MEMO | January 30, 2014
Israel accused Hezbollah on Wednesday of setting up military bases inside residential buildings and threatened that it would target these bases in any future conflict, even if civilians are killed.
Israel Bites the Hand that Feeds… and Washington Keeps on Feeding
by Finian Cunningham
A rare public spat between Washington and Israeli in recent days has revealed much about the essential political relationship between the two.
The row began when Israeli minister for military affairs Moshe Ya’alon spoke to local media with vitriolic contempt about America’s top diplomat, John Kerry…
European legislators threatened with arrest by Israeli authorities
By Saed Bannoura | IMEMC News | December 31, 2013
Israeli Minister of Defense Moshe Ya’alon declared, on Tuesday, that former British International Development Secretary Clare Short and three other European legislators would be arrested if they try to come to Israel, due to their involvement in a European-Palestinian organization calling for an end to the Israeli siege on Gaza.
Tel Aviv: “Axis of Evil” Cannot Be Allowed to Win in Syria
By Yahya Dbouk | Al-Akhbar | August 16, 2013
It is perhaps one of those rare times that Israel openly clarifies its position regarding the Syrian crisis, and from the mouths of high-ranking officials: the Resistance cannot be allowed to win.