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Wounded evacuated from the Bil'in weekly demonstration (Photo: Yossi Gurvitz)
Military Intelligence monitors “de-legitimization”
The army joins the fight against “de-legitimization”, will watch BDS groups Silently, without a shred of public debate, AMAN-Research – the research arm of military intelligence, possibly the most error-prone part of the IDF – created (Hebrew) a new department. Its office would be to proudly represent the army in the new Zionist front, the…
By Yossi Gurvitz March 22, 2011
Demonstrators in Cairo, under tear gas attack (Flickr user Monasoh, creative commons license(
Why is the Egyptian Army in Sinai?
And why is the Chief of Military Intelligence still in office? Two comments on recent events Egyptian Forces in Sinai: Several reports indicate that Egyptian military forces have entered Sharm el-Sheikh, in Sinai. Rumors also say this is where Mubarak is at the moment. The entrance of Egyptian military forces into Sinai is prohibited by…
By Yossi Gurvitz January 30, 2011
The IDF spokesman’s war on freedom of the press
Following an 1992 IDF military training debacle known as the Zeelim B scandal, an Israeli general named Uri Sagi, then serving as chief of AMAN (military intelligence), was interviewed for the domestic media. During the interview, the journalist noted that the IDF Spokesman gave a version of events that directly contradicted Sagi’s. The general, always…
By Yossi Gurvitz October 2, 2010
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The Jewish problem
Haaretz published on Sunday an article headlined “A third of Spaniards hold a negative opinion of Jews.” In the article, journalist Barak Ravid notes that the survey was commissioned by Casa Sefarad-Israel, an organization created inter alia by the Spanish Foreign Ministry; and that it concluded that the rise in anti-Semitism was mostly due to…
By Yossi Gurvitz September 14, 2010
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