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The real danger to Israel's security is Netanyahu : Comments

By Alon Ben-Meir, published 6/11/2014

By what measure can Netanyahu claim that the occupation of the West Bank enhances Israel's national security?

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Let's set aside credulity for a moment and suppose you are right?
What on earth are we supposed to do about it?
The only people with any power to change this anomaly; if there is one, are the voters of Israel!
Surely you should be messaging them, and on a far more appropriate vehicle!
I mean, world or any other opinion has never ever mattered to Netanyahu!
Rhrosty.
Posted by Rhrosty, Thursday, 6 November 2014 9:31:57 AM
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It's worth remembering that Israel has never defined her own boundaries. This is because there are ideologues living there who honestly believe in a Greater Israel. Their dream has Israel spanning the Land Between the Two Rivers, or between the Nile and the Euphrates.
Who knows? History is a funny thing, and they might realise their dream. More likely, however, is that having missed the chances to create two states, one state of Palestine/Israel will come into being. And there goes the Jewish state. And there goes the Jewish majority.
Netanyahu, acting from religious hubris and personal fear, has done more to bring about the one state solution than all his predecessors. But to be fair, he is only following a well established pattern of intolerance and discrimination. Israel was always going to end this way.
Posted by halduell, Thursday, 6 November 2014 12:10:08 PM
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As Rhosty says " So?"
As long as israel can squeeze the US's nuts
any time it wishes it will never be interested
in others' claims.
Netanyahu is incidental - US politics makes
his behaviour possible. Stronger and more durable than the gun
lobby.
Decades or centuries of misery in prospect.
Lets not ever be optimistic about this lot.
Posted by asho, Thursday, 6 November 2014 2:14:06 PM
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<<Netanyahu subordinates it to his narrow ideological agenda>>

What agenda?

Netanyahu has and ever had only one agenda - to keep Sarah happy, and Sarah is happy so long as her husband is the prime-minister.

If any Israeli leader can bring peace or thereabouts by withdrawing from the West-Bank and Eastern Jerusalem, it is therefore Netanyahu:

A prime minister on his right would stick to their ideological agenda till their last breath.
A prime minister on his left would be afraid to make any move because they understand that they will be lynched or assassinated by the settlers (like former PM, Yitzhak Rabin).

But if Netanyahu, who is known for building settlements, is squeezed hard enough by the world, then he would have no problem telling his colleagues "Sorry folks, we have no choice, nothing can save us now but to fold our flag" and he would be accepted as a realist rather than a traitor.
Posted by Yuyutsu, Thursday, 6 November 2014 3:15:58 PM
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Crazy Benny has been playing the U.S. and the world for suckers for years. To him it's a game. He talks a two-State solution while he builds settlements as fast as he can.

One night, the Palestinians will wake up and they'll be sitting in the middle of the surrounding desert and Greater Israel will be in existence.

Until that day, Benny just has to hold tight and procrastinate. Of course, the U.S., the 'mythical' honest broker, continues to help Israel gain its MOST POWERFUL REGIONAL NATION AND PROXY FOR AMERICA status.

It's all a game, a cruel game, one played by tyrants!
Posted by David G, Thursday, 6 November 2014 3:32:43 PM
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That Netanyahu has national security policies destructive to Israel is demonstrated by all the Israeli (retired) national security officials who several days ago come out against him.

http://intelnews.org/2014/11/04/01-1588/ November 4, 2014 reports:

A record number of over 100 retired Israeli military commanders, police commissioners and directors of the Mossad spy agency have urged the government of Israel to initiate unconditional peace talks with its Arab neighbors.

In an open letter addressed to...Netanyahu, 106 signatories...have urged the Israeli leader to “initiate a diplomatic process” aimed at achieving peace with the Palestinians. All but five of the signatories are veterans of the Israel Defense Forces with the rank of brigadier or major general. The remaining five are former directors of the Mossad —Israel’s covert-action agency— and former commissioners of Mishteret Yisra’el, Israel’s national police force.

[Retired] Major General Eyal Ben-Reuven,.. told Israel’s Channel 2 News that Israel had the ability and the means to achieve a two-state solution with the Palestinians that would drastically increase regional security. But it was failing to do so, he said, due to “weak leadership” inside Israel. Referring to Prime Minister Netanyahu, Ben-Reuven said he suffers from “some kind of political blindness that drives him to scare himself and us”.

The action by the 106 former security and intelligence leaders was described by Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz as “the largest-ever joint protest by senior Israeli security personnel”.

more see http://intelnews.org/2014/11/04/01-1588/

Pete
Posted by plantagenet, Thursday, 6 November 2014 6:58:34 PM
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