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The government has tabled a bill for dissolving the Knesset. The date is still not confirmed, but would-be candidates for seats at the post-election cabinet table are lining up. Defense Minister Ehud Barak launched his bid to carry on in defense at a news conference Wednesday, May 2. Other bidders, on the assumption that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will head the next government, aim to cut Likud’s current right-wing and religious partners out of his coalition and push Likud into a centrist role.
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This scenario dictated by estimates that Iran can make a nuke in 43 days.
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This scenario postulates Israeli preparations for a low-grade Iranian nuclear strike.
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Abu Musa will be the provincial capital of the new Iranian province.
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- Military steps by US, Israel, Iran
- Al Qaeda seizes control of Syrian rebel factions
- Netanyahu’s choices: Strike Iran before or after Israeli elections
- US drills reaction to Iran strike, deploys F-22s to Gulf
- Gantz: Other armies are also ready to strike Iran
- Israel leaders wrangle over Iran. New US spy agency
- Hungry Syrian soldiers desert Golan defenses
- Iran rides high, wants sanctions ended
- Barak asks Panetta for US bottom line with Iran
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report
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The US, Israel and Iran embarked on significant military steps Tuesday, May 1, refuting certain US media reports of a lessening in war tensions over Iran: Shortly after Israel launched a big war exercise on its northern borders with Syria and Lebanon, Iran’s border guards initiated naval drills along its southern coast where nuclear facilities, Revolutionary Guards bases and oilfields are situated. The United States disclosed that the first phase of its anti-Iran missile defense network for protecting Europe was complete.
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A year after the death of its iconic leader Osama bin Laden at the hands of US special forces, Al Qaeda is making an operational comeback, notably in North Africa and Syria. The suicide bombings hitting Damascus and Idlib in the last 24 hours were the work of Al Qaeda in Iraq – AQI, whose operatives have been pouring into Syria in the last two weeks, DEBKAfile reports. Without US intervention, al Qaeda will be able to use Syria for attacking its neighbors too, Turkey, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan.
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Binyamin Netanyahu and Ehud Barak are facing another of the periodic opposition campaigns to unseat them. New faces have joined the opposition lineup, including a fledgling party, “There is a Future.” They are campaigning against an Israeli attack to preempt a nuclear Iran, questioning both leaders’ credentials for leading one and calling for an early election. However, before peaking, the opposition campaign is starting to backfire, DEBKAfile reports. Netanyahu may count on a successful operation against Iran boosting him at the polls.
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