I was especially happy Rahm was working on this because he had served in the Israeli army.
First there were nightly battles between Palestinian fighters who requisitioned buildings in Beit Jala—the mainly Christian hill-town which forms Bethlehem's western wing—and the Israeli army.
Hours after the Israeli army ended its six-day occupation of Beit Hanoun in Gaza, its artillery bombarded the town, killing-by accident, it said-at least 19 Palestinians.
They caught the Israeli army unawares.
The killings came just a few days after an Israeli army incursion into Gaza that killed at least 110 Palestinians.
When the Israeli army intercepted the Turkish flotilla in international waters, its soldiers were surprised to be physically attacked on the Mavi Marmara.
The Israeli army not only works hard to keep the country at the cutting edge of technology, it also trains young Israelis (who are conscripted at 18) in the virtues of teamwork and improvisation.
Data for the study came from a large group of young men entering the Israeli army.
One of them, who’d been a soldier in the Israeli army, slightly older than most Princeton undergraduates, says awkwardly, “Professor Oates?
On April 2, Israeli army entered and occupied Bethlehem. They tried to surround more than 200 Palestinian militias, who then hid themselves inside the Church of Nativity. The standoff has continued till today.
Despite a34- day air and ground assault, the Israeli army failed to defeat about5,000 guerrillas in southern Lebanon.
The ladies can often be found at dusk practicing on a dusty stretch in “Area C, ” the part of the West Bank controlled by the Israeli army. Traffic regulations don’t apply here.
Concerns about Israeli army culture were raised last week following the publication on Facebook of photographs of a servicewoman posing alongside blindfolded and handcuffed Palestinians.
The Israeli army says it is confident of victory.
The Israeli army's now-banned use of Palestinian residents as human shields was morally dubious but also saved lives on both sides.
On the other hand, Israeli army said the man and several other armed Palestinian attempted to attack the settlement and was killed by Israeli soldiers.
Why, for example, did it shell the UN school, which had been assigned as a temporary refuge, and whose GPS co-ordinates had been given to the Israeli army?
An internal Israeli army investigation concluded that, despite a small number of errors, the army kept within the bounds of international law during the assault on the Gaza Strip three months ago.