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IDF officers slam Netanyahu's lack of strategy for northern threats 
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report May 12, 2010, 1:21 PM (GMT+02:00) 
Tags:  Netanyahu   IDF   Northern threat  

Attending IDF's northern war game

High officers leading this week's big war game in northern Israel confronted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and chief of staff Lt. Gen. Gaby Ashkenazi with harsh criticism over the lack of a clear government strategy for dealing with the rising Hizballah threat of aggression and the uninterrupted flow of advanced weaponry fromSyria to Hizballah. They said Syrian Scuds reached Hizballah because Israel was over-anxious to keep the borders calm at all costs.

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Medvedev sees Hamas leader in Damascus, an affront to US and Israel
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
May 11, 2010, 9:29 PM (GMT+02:00) 

Tags:  Damascus   Medvedev   Meshaal 

Russian president Dmitry Medvedev welcomed in Damascus

The US and Israel were unpleasantly taken aback to find Russian president Dmitry Medvedev receiving a pack of Hamas leaders, including political secretary Khaled Meshaal, Monday May 11, on the second day of his Damascus visit. Syrian president Bashar Assad was also present. Apparently unaware of this turn of events, Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu welcomed Medvedev's offer of a role in Middle East peacemaking.

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Iran builds nuclear-capable cruise missile able to strike Israel from afar
DEBKAfile Special Report
May 11, 2010, 1:01 PM (GMT+02:00) 

Tags:  Iranian cruise missile   Yair Shamir 

Iran's new KH-55 cruise missile

"This is an extremely serious threat toIsrael," Yair Shamir, chairman of Israel's Aerospace Industries warned, naming the new weapon as the Ukrainian-made KH-55 cruise missile upgraded by Iran, along with an air-launched version enabling Iranian warplanes to strike Israel or Central Europe from their own airspace. 
"The pace of missile development (inIran) is much faster than that of the solutions," Shamir said, contradicting defense minister Ehud Barak's soothing assessments.

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