THE PATH THAT ISRAEL SHOULD HAVE TAKEN!
May 17, 2006
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I was never in favor of the security barrier and have always been in the same camp as former IDF Chief Ya’alon as to the way Israel should deal with the Palestinians. I wish Israel had followed the path he outlines. I agree with it 100 percent. But I knew from the beginning Israel would put their faith in a fence rather than the promises of God. I am thankful there are still leaders in Israel who realize that direct action and confrontation is always more productive that compromise after compromise. Israel will continue to put its confidence in a fence and appeasement, with the result leading to their defeat for some three and on-half years.
I have always admired Ariel Sharon and Benjamin Netanyahu because they both knew the best way to deal with the Palestinians was by direct force, and neither ever really wanted to give back the West Bank. Ariel Sharon was forced by the United States and international pressure to take the path he took.
An analyst should never let his own likes, dislikes, and personal opinions get involved in what he draws as a conclusion. So I drew the conclusion the only way it could work out was for a temporary forced false peace to be the outcome, with a Palestinian government surrounded by Israel. Nothing is going to bring true peace to the Middle East short of the return of Jesus Christ.
I received the following news release from “Willow,” who got it from “The Israel Report” by Neil Cooper, who obtained it from the original source.
I could not agree more with the former IDF Chief. I wish they had listened to him. I only assess the way I think it is going, not the way I wish it was going.
Begin Article by Ezra HaLevi
Former IDF Chief Ya’alon: “Israel’s Leaders Selling Illusions”
May 14, 2006
by Ezra HaLevi
Former IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Ya’alon has broken his relative silence, decrying the entire notion of a Palestinian state and urging Israel to be strong rather than appease the global Jihad.
The longtime warrior drew a comparison between the events leading up to the Holocaust and the present, comparing Ehud Olmert to Neville Chamberlain. “We look back to what the West experienced before World War Two. There was denial of reality,
denial of threat.
The attitude was, ‘Let’s leave it to next year, to the next generation,’ “Ya’alon said. “We don’t need Chamberlains, we need Churchills. We are flooded with lies, manipulated by Al Qaeda, but, most prominently, by the Palestinians.”
Ya’alon spoke at Manhattan’s Lincoln Square Synagogue last Monday, registering harsh criticism of Israel’s leadership for offering “illusions” to the Israeli people.
Ya’alon was Chief of Staff up until just before the implementation of Ariel Sharon’s Disengagement Plan, of which his criticism was well known. His tenure was not extended and he was replaced with the current COS, Dan Halutz.
The retired general criticized the notion of withdrawing from parts of Judea and Samaria, in addition to the building of the Partition Wall, which he believes is an illusion in terms of security. “The best defense is a good offense, not a fence,” he said. “The best way to deal with terrorists is to arrest them or kill them in their beds. The IDF has intelligence capability to intercept terrorists. They use their civilians as human shields, knowing our sensitivities to killing civilians – but we do have the capability to intercept them in real time.
Without dealing with the roots, we can cut down the weeds – to deal with the roots would be to force them to reform their education and culture. I am not sure we will succeed but we should be under no pressure to make any concessions until this change.”
The former Chief of Staff says that not only did the Disengagement propel the Hamas terror group to a landslide victory in PA elections earlier this year, but “what we are doing is leaving a legacy for the next generation who will deal with Palestinians who believe that terrorism pays, that Israel cuts and runs under pressure,” Ya’alon explained. He said that at this point, when Kassam missiles are already falling regularly on Israeli towns, “we must stop getting used to these constant missile attacks as if they are rain. We can’t tolerate this missile threat from Gaza or continued terrorism…We must step up military actions in Gaza despite the problems of not being able to have laser-like accuracy against the terrorists there.”
Ya’alon doesn’t see negotiations as a reality any time in the future. “I do not see any prospect for peace and reconciliation on the Palestinian side,” he said. “I needed no sophisticated intelligence to reach this conclusion – I only had to look at their textbooks, posters and so on. We should not be surprised but we ignored it. Without this kind of change, not just in Israel but the West, all Western powers will have to fight them. They believe they can defeat the West and Israel first. We need a wake-up call here and across the West. Under no circumstances should we surrender to terror. As long as they see our appeasement policy, they will continue.”
Though Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reaches similar conclusions with regard to the prospects of a negotiated peace deal, Ya’alon takes issue with the assumption that creating a Palestinian State is anything but dangerous for the Jewish state. “From the dawn of Zionism until this day, the source of all terrorist attacks has been the refusal of the Arab world to recognize Israel’s existence. Until this changes we will remain the target of violent terrorist activity. The ‘67 borders are neither a solution to rocket attacks, suicide bombs nor to more conventional forms of warfare,” he said. “The two-state solution has failed and to my mind is now irrelevant. Even before the Hamas victory, a two-state solution was a mistaken fantasy – now it’s even more irrelevant.
The Palestinians knew exactly who Hamas was when they voted for them.”
Ya’alon was optimistic, however, saying what Israel needs most is a change of outlook. “The front line is in our heads,” he said, “because they challenge our values and culture.” The man who is credited with pushing through the policy of targeting terrorists and killing them, no matter how unpopular next days headlines made the Jewish state, said he believed Israelis “must consolidate our Jewish Zionist narrative. Without believing in our case, there is no way to convince someone else,” he said. “We need moral clarity and clear strategy – or else there is no way to deal with the problem and find a solution. Otherwise, there is no chance for one now over the horizon, meaning in my generation. Yet we prefer to be confused, to ignore reality. This is the case with
Israel; this is the case with the West. Iran sees us withdrawing from Gaza, Hamas is elected, they see US trouble in Iraq and because they do not pay price for financing, supporting and encouraging terrorism, they continue.
“The war has become super-conventional. Syrian scud missiles, Iranian Shihab missiles, Iran pursuing nuclear capabilities – these are the threats today … The deliberate targeting of Israeli civilians – we suffered more than 1000 fatalities in the last five years, more than 70% civilians because the other side believes that Israeli society is the weakest link in the Israeli security chain…Now it is more and more a religious conflict – from their side, not ours … but like in the past, Hamas says, again, no room for Israel, instead there must be a Palestinian Islamic state.
They say what they mean and mean what they say…And Israel is only the first target of their planned Islamic empire.”
The speech was organized by the Zionist Organization of America. ZOA’s President Morton A. Klein said, following the lecture, that, “General Ya’alon brings a very sobering message, people were keen to hear his moral clarity and strategic wisdom that states clearly that the Oslo path of the past 13 years has been a terrible mistake. We will not begin to succeed in seeking peace until we first win the war.”
End Article by Ezra HaLevi
Israel chose the wrong path when they rejected their Messiah and they chose the wrong path when they did not keep all the land from Dan to Beersheba after the 1967 war and drive out the Palestinians, regardless of world opinion. But, th ank God, they will eventu
ally make the right choice in the Negev and a remnant will be saved by the Deliverer from Zion, King Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 11:25-27 – For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
[26] And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: [27] For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
Revelation 12:6 – And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Zechariah 13:9 – And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
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