We in the west tend to get a rather biased view of what is going on in
Israel. Moshe Dayan, the former Israeli defense minister, made some
rather candid remarks about Israel's strategy. Israelis are not the
innocent little angels they make themselves out to be.
Barak and Sharon both belong to a line of political generals that
started with Moshe Dayan. This breed of generals was raised on the
myth of the sanctity of the land. In a 1976 interview, Moshe Dayan,
who was the defense minister in 1967, explained what led, then, to the
decision to attack Syria. Syria was conceived as a serious threat to
the security of Israel, and a constant initiator of aggression towards
the residents of northern Israel. But according to Dayan, this is
"***** -- Syria was not a threat to Israel before '67: Just drop
it.. I know how at least 80% of all the incidents with Syria started.
We were sending a tractor to the demilitarised zone and we knew that
the Syrians would shoot." According to Dayan (who at the time of the
interview expressed some regrets), what lead Israel to provoke Syria
that way was the greediness for the land -- the idea that it is
possible "to grab a piece of land and keep it, until the enemy will
get tired and give it to us."
--
Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green.
Coaching, problem solving, economical contract programming.
See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss.html for The Java Glossary.
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