http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3378872,00.html
Conflict with Iran inevitable, Ya'alon says
Former IDF chief of staff criticizes West's weakness, preventing it
from handling Iranian regime
Roee Nahmias Published: 03.20.07, 13:23 / Israel News
"The question of who won the war in Lebanon has yet to be determined,"
former Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon said at a lecture in Tel Aviv
Tuesday.
He stated that conflict with the Iranian regime was inevitable. "The
Western world is avoiding it because it is weak and that is only
bringing it closer."
He said that Iran had declared war on the West and its culture. "In
the last war we fought their agent." He added that this battle is also
against such organizations as el-Qaeda and could take decades and will
have many secondary wars.
Ya'alon described the battle as being fought on many fronts
simultaneously: "In Lebanon between Hizbullah and the Christians and
Druze; in the Palestinian Authority, the fight between Hamas and the
other factions; in Iran, the fundamentalist regime against the
majority of the population that would gladly forsake the ayatollah
regime but has not yet been able to translate that into political
power."
Ya'alon agrees that "we can and should talk about the weakening in
Israel's deterrence," because of the war in Lebanon.
He said it was a direct result from creating very high expectations
during the fighting, probably due to the successes of the very first
days. The objectives were impossible to achieve and more moderate
goals should have been set, for example aim to lessen Hizbullah's
potency in the Lebanese internal scene. We missed the opportunity to
end the war so it would better suit our political goals
=D7=9E=D7=95=D7=93=D7=A2=D7=94
Today's wars have different character: "It is the endurance of Israeli
society that is put to test and it is no longer the IDF, our military
might, on the front line."
Ya'alon criticized the "Palestinian culture of death" that is bringing
about self destruction. "I think that standing by the Palestinian
Authority in the last few years was clearly non-ethical.
"As long as Palestinian school books educate for death instead of
life, and fail to mention Israel , we must continue fighting," he
concluded.
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
.
|
