I Have Held the Position Ex-IDF Chief Yaalon Holds for 58 Years!
January 23, 2007
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I read this article by Hillel Fendel from Israel Nation News Arutz Sheva with great joy, because I have held the position Ex-IDF Chief Yaalon holds since 1948. Because I am a Christian I believe the outcome the Bible predicts for the Israeli-Islamic final conflict in the Middle East, so I know that a majority will not agree with the conclusions Yaalon has expounded in the Arutz Sheva release. Israel will continue to make all sorts of concessions to their enemies, but to no avail, and in the end will pay a terrible price for having done so.
However, it is so very refreshing to read an article that tells it like it is by a military man who knows the folly of concessions to Islam.
Begin Arutz Sheva Article
Ex-IDF Chief of Staff: Israeli Concessions Won´t Help
Arutz Sheva, National News Net
By Hillel Fendel
January 22, 2007
“An end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will not solve the problems of the Middle East,” Yaalon says. “Israeli concessions will only strengthen extremist Islam.”
Speaking at the Herzliya Conference today, the former Chief of Staff said, “Conventional wisdom has it that a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will bring stablity to the Middle East. It is also widely felt that the core problem is Israel’s occupation [of Judea and Samaria] and that a two-state solution will solve the 100-year-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
“These two mistaken assumptions,” Yaalon said, “do not allow a new type of thinking that can truly solve the problem.”
The Palestinians have no interest in a two-state solution with Israel, Yaalon said: “They have never agreed to any partition of the land. They objected to the Peel Commission’s proposal in 1937, and to the UN’s plan in 1947, and again in 2000 in Camp David. Arafat’s rejection then of Ehud Barak’s generous offer [of 95-98% of Judea and Samaria] and the war he launched instead showed that his goal was to prevent a two-state solution and, especially, the recognition of Israel… The fact that Kassams continue to fly from Gaza also prove this… Hamas has made it quite clear as well: they are interested in one Arab state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.”
Similarly, he said, “The objective of Hizbullah is not the liberation of southern Lebanon – but rather the destruction of Israel… World War
III is currently underway; a clash of civilizations between the West and radical extremist Islam. Al-Qaeda did not arise because of Israel, and the State of Israel was not yet around when the Muslim Brotherhood was formed [in 1928]…”
“Therefore,” Yaalon said, “in my opinion, a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will not bring calm to the Middle East… The lack of an authoritative Palestinian leadership
that is capable or willing to implement a two-state solution, and the fact that an entire young Palestinian generation is being brought up on hatred and death, shows that the two-state paradigm is not relevant now, if at all.”
Listeners to public taxpayer-supported Israel Radio were prevented from hearing Yaalon’s words, as broadcaster Gabi Gazit cut off the
broadcast after three minutes. Gazit said he would return to the speech if Yaalon said something more “actual and hot.” On the other hand, Gazit “allowed” the broadcast of the left-wing speech of Defense Minister Amir Peretz nearly in its entirety.
“We have experienced too many golden calves in the past years,” Yaalon said, “that were supposed to give us hope and provide quick solutions. What we need is leadership that will give true solutions, not spins.”
Among these quick-fix “golden calves” was, presumably, Ariel Sharon’s unilateral withdrawal from Gaza and northern Shomron. Yaalon was replaced at the IDF helm by Sharon and Defense Minister Mofaz shortly before the Disengagement, after Yaalon said the withdrawal would strengthen terrorism.
“Unilateral Israeli concessions will only strengthen Islamic Jihad and terrorism,” Yaalon emphasized again today.
“International pressure upon Israel for further concessions, or unilateral Israeli withdrawals, are seen as weakness and will only encourage them to continue to attack Israel and the West.”
Regarding Iran, the former IDF head said that we must stop thinking in terms of an immediate solution, and rather seek a long-range approach: “There is no choice other than a conflict with the Iranian regime. The entire world must understand that the Iranian problem is not a local one, and that the transfer of technological and financial means to Iran must be stopped immediately… Those who do not prevent the transfer of these means are bringing the conflict closer.
The Syrian and Iranians must be punished by the world; they pushed Hizbullah to war but were not punished.”
Regarding Israel’s preparedness for the recent war in Lebanon, Yaalon said, “The problems were not in the soldiers or the equipment, but rather a failure of military and political leadership.
With the upcoming changes of personnel, I am confident that the army will return to itself very quickly.”
Asked about his own role in Israel’s lack of sufficient preparedness for the war – Yaalon was Chief of Staff from 1992 to 1995 – he said that he will be happy to answer this question after he testifies on the matter before the Winograd Commission. The commission, headed by former Tel Aviv District Court Justice Eliyahu Winograd, is investigating the events and preparations leading up to the summer’ s Lebanon War.
End Arutz Sheva Article
I agree with this article completely, but it will not be heeded. The only kind of pe ace th
at can come to Israel at the present time is a temporary false peace. However, after Messiah returns, the Canaanites will be driven out of Israel, and there will finally be a true peace in Israel.
Micah 5:5-7 – And this man shall be the peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land: and when he shall tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men. [6] And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.
[7] And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the Lord, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.
(Please Review Archive Prophecy Updates 66 and 67 for a Full Exposition of verses 5 & 6)
Zechariah 14:16-21 – And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. [17] And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
[18] And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the Lord will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. [19] This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment
of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. [20] In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the Lord’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar. [21] Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and IN THAT DAY THERE SHALL BE NO MORE THE CANAANITE in the house of the Lord
of hosts. (Please See Archive Prophecy Update Number 136)
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