Shulamit Aloni, Haaretz, February 27:
The State of Israel is the strongest state in the region - militarily, economically, scientifically and culturally. It enjoys broad support from the United States and European countries. It has peaceful relations with Egypt and Jordan. We could even have built a peace arrangement with Lebanon and Syria, if we had wanted to, but certainly no threat is hovering over Israel from that direction.
But Benjamin Netanyahu is threatening us that they will throw us into the sea. Who? The Palestinians? Let’s say they want to - can they? Netanyahu and his supporters on the right and the extreme right need to scare us so that they can continue eating away at the Palestinians’ lands, just as long as everything is ours. This is the right and its doctrine.
But far more worrisome - in words and actions - are our generals, those in active duty and those who once were: Moshe Ya’alon and Shaul Mofaz. They order a strategy of power and more power, from here to eternity. They warn of a threatening future, both in Jordan and in Egypt. They launch provocative acts of aggression on the lands of the West Bank, and continue assassinations while ruining or murdering innocent people (without any ticking time bomb). All of this is to ensure that there will be action and risk, that the army will be given a larger budget, that the arms industry will grow and increase trade and that we will continue to worship our heroes who sacrifice their lives for our security.
we could have built a peaceful arrangement?
extractedfrom A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties
by Oded Yinon
Iraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other, is guaranteed as a candidate for Israel’s targets. Its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria. Iraq is stronger than Syria. In the short run it is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat to Israel. An Iraqi-Iranian war will tear Iraq apart and cause its downfall at home even before it is able to organize a struggle on a wide front against us. Every kind of inter-Arab confrontation will assist us in the short run and will shorten the way to the more important aim of breaking up Iraq into denominations as in Syria and in Lebanon. In Iraq, a division into provinces along ethnic/religious lines as in Syria during Ottoman times is possible.
It is possible that the present Iranian-Iraqi confrontation will deepen this polarization.
This essay originally appeared in Hebrew in KIVUNIM (Directions), A Journal for Judaism and Zionism; Issue No, 14–Winter, 5742, February 1982, Editor: Yoram Beck. Editorial Committee: Eli Eyal, Yoram Beck, Amnon Hadari, Yohanan Manor, Elieser Schweid. Published by the Department of Publicity/The World Zionist Organization, Jerusalem.
the funny thing about it is that i read this exact thing in the weekend australian,
mosque blown to peaces story about civil war, and standing out from the text, the breakout, iraq might have to be split into three states, wow
its time israeli’s stood up and said enough, as it is in australia and britain,
because the israeli govt has a plan for its region and it isnt going to be very good for anyone
That crazy as a fox looney Ahmadijabad (you know who I mean) claimed it was Israelis who demolished the Shiite mosque in Iraq. - Surely not.
i spose its silly to say israelis specifically, but i’ll bet you my middle testicle it wasnt zarqawi or any of the genuine resistance fighters in iraq,
maybe it was those two sas dudes again dressing in local police uniforms,
it all makes sense if you think the plan was carving up into seperate states from the start,
no post invasion plan,
allowing looting and lawlessness,
stripping of the national treasures,
supporting the kurdish north whilst playing the shia and sunni off against each other,
creating a sunni mastermind zarqawi, who orchestrates terror against a shia majority,
if only it really had been about weapons of mass destruction, and they’d found some, and then left, ahhhhh