Sunday, 18 November 2012


DEBKAfile Exclusive Report November 18, 2012, 5:07 AM (GMT+02:00)
Tags:  IDF   Hamas   ceasefire   Binyamin Netanyahu   Barack Obama   Mohamed Morsi  Erdogan   Gaza 
Egyptian and Turkish leaders in Gaza mediation bid
Egyptian and Turkish leaders in Gaza mediation bid

Israel launched heavy air-sea assaults in Gaza before dawn Sunday, Nov. 18 after bargaining among Washington, Jerusalem, Cairo and Gaza failed to produce a truce accord.  Israel accused Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi and Turkish premier Tayyip Erdogan of pushing Hamas’s terms to support its pose as victor. Israel’s war leaders, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, countered by intensifying the Gaza offensive – though not  yet on the ground.
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Spymasters Used Petraeus’s Affairs
An open secret in Mid East and European intelligence circles. 
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Egypt’s MB Plotted Gaza Escalation
US comes aboard Israel’s counter-offensive 
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Khamenei Nixes Talks with US
He upsets Obama’s plans for a diplomatic solution for Iran’s nuclear bid. 
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Headlines
Iron Dome intercepts Gaza missile over Tel Aviv
DEBKAfile Special Report
November 17, 2012, 4:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli tanks on standby outside Gaza
Israeli tanks on standby outside Gaza

Missile alert sirens sounded across Greater Tel Aviv Saturday, Nov. 17, before an explosion caused by Iron Dome’s interception of one of the two rockets incoming from the Gaza Strip against Israel’s largest conurbation for the third day in a row. The second rocket landed harmlessly on open ground.
Hamas claimed to have launched Iran-made Fajr-5 long-range missile against Tel Aviv. The Iron Dome anti-missile battery was deployed for the first time in Greater Tel Aviv that morning,
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