 5768 ~ News and Views of Interest for the American Christian Zionist ~ 2008 |
5768 ~ News and Views of Interest for the American Christian Zionist ~ 2008 |
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Two-State Disaster Israel's 'kosher' cellphone testing What have we paid for with ‘Palestinian’ handouts? Pope Benedict XVI Reaches Out To Jews Israeli Soldiers Surround Gaza Synagogue Israeli Gunman Kills 3 Palestinians Cancer of European Israel Can't Even Take The Weak Way Out
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Israel's Self-Destruction Old-guard military establishment types in the Jewish State are openly calling for a civil war By Caroline B. Glick In his testimony before the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Tuesday, Shin Bet director Avi Dichter described some short-term threats inherent in carrying out Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to pull the IDF out of the Gaza Strip and northern Samaria. "In a situation where Israel is not in control of the Philadelphi corridor [which separates Gaza from the Sinai Peninsula]," Dichter warned," terrorists arriving from Lebanon are liable to infiltrate through it into the Gaza Strip and there is the distinct possibility that in a short while the Gaza Strip will turn into a south Lebanon." Dichter also cautioned that the current "trickle" of arms smuggling through the corridor is liable to turn into a "river." As to northern Samaria, Dichter said that "Samaria is an area with terrorist potential that already proved itself in the past. Therefore nothing should surprise us. If we evacuate the area and turn it into Area A, under complete Palestinian security control, we are liable to get an area there that operates by the Gaza model." Dichter presented us with real cause for concern over Sharon's plan, but his analysis was far from exhaustive. He limited his remarks solely to the realm of terrorist warfare. Since the 1967 Six Day War, the view of the leaders of the IDF's General Staff has been that in a conventional war with Egypt and Jordan participating, Palestinian forces can wreak havoc on Israel's lines of communications moving from west to east and north to south. As a result, until 1993, the view of Israel's defense establishment had always been that from a strategic perspective, the establishment of a Palestinian state in the territories constituted too great a threat to Israel's national security to be an acceptable option. >>>(more) |
Indian 'lost tribe' members find home in Israel Holy War against Gay Pride Parade Should Israel return the Golan Heights? An open-letter to Mel — and Jewry
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Friday, June 20, 2008
