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Peres in charge of security--What a cruel joke
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A Time to Speak
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The wry joke you hear in Israel is: "It doesn't matter how you vote or who is elected . . . you always get Shimon Peres".
Department of Odd Coincidence: How similar his name is to SINON -- the guy who persuaded the Trojans to take that Wooden Horse into the city.
Posted by: A Time to Speak on September 11, 2005 12:20 PM
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BobW
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From a geostrategic or even a military strategic view, there is little significance to the Peres roadblock vis a vis security issues.
The relinquishment of Gaza was step one in disestablishing Israel. Leaving Gaza was not leaving a cordon sanitaire or Czar's buffer state. The Gaza withdrawal allows for the new Arab state to become contiguous Gaza with Ramallah-Hebron.
Thus, until a few other matters are developed, Israel is a nation split into two seperated areas of land or - and I'm still waiting on a few other "facts" to emerge - the Great Powers forced PM Sharon to accept a condominium with the Arabs. Thus, there will be 2 autonomous political entities (Note my avoidance of "sovereign") on the same land mass. I am guessing Jerusalem will be internationalized like Trieste, Berlin or Shanghai experienced. An Arab seat of government within Jerusalem will be accomodated.
Israel has restrictions on targets. The US, and most definitely the EU, do not want another closure of the Suez Canal. Egypt cannot afford a flood of refugees from Gaza into Cairo. The area is too unstable both economically and politically.
Again, Gaza is a nonissue. Israel is at its weakest since the Mandate.
There are answers and solutions to all this but they won't be found in the desk drawers of the Yevsektzia.
Kol tuv,
BobW
Posted by: BobW on September 12, 2005 03:20 AM
Peres in charge of security--What a cruel joke
DEBKA discusses What Prompted Mofaz’s Synagogue Mutiny?
(How does one reconcile this with the policy of massive retaliation? One doesn't.)
[...]The most intriguing question is what led Shaul Mofaz to raise the flag of mutiny against the prime minister. For eighteen months, his obedience has been almost machinelike. He activated the army against Israeli civilians for the first time in its history, lent a hand to the purging of the high command and tied the hands of military intelligence, lest they obstruct Sharon’s disengagement plans for Gaza Strip.
He claims truthfully that his observant religious background held him back from sending Jews to destroy synagogues. But looking beyond this claim, DEBKAfile’s analysts find a more likely cause: he felt his loyalty had been rewarded with a kick in the teeth when Sharon last week abruptly snatched security responsibility for the Gaza Strip from the defense ministry and handed it to vice prime minister, Labor leader Shimon Peres.
Gaza Strip will hardly become a utopia any time soon, rather a sanctuary for a broad range of terrorists. Yet Sharon has put in place a new arrangement that will force the defense minister and chief of staff to go running to the dovish Peres each time the evacuated Gaza Strip is used as a Palestinian firing position or terrorist base against Israeli targets. Halutz has spoken of a new response policy, firm, rapid actions to halt attacks, including artillery fire, regardless of their source.
This is not the Peres way, as Sharon knows very well. Yet he has once again broken new ground, becoming the first Israeli prime minister to place a political barrier in the path of the national defense machine.
That step, and another, provoked the he defense minister into fighting back.
The other is more personal. When Binyamin Netanyahu quit as finance minister and challenged Sharon for the leadership of their Likud party, Mofaz was certain he was in line as Sharon’s crown prince and political mainstay. Instead, Sharon coolly passed him over in favor of – again – the Labor leader Shimon Peres.
By this move, Sharon has trumped Netanyahu’s ace. Instead of dividing the party between himself and his challenger, Sharon has forced the majority to choose between him and splitting the party in favor of his two rivals, Netanyahu and Uzi Landau. To woo the party round, Sharon is promising there will be no more evacuations. But his choice of the Oslo peace accords architect Shimon Peres as his partner points him in the opposite direction.
The only reason he voted for Mofaz’s motion to leave the synagogues intact was to avoid being lumped with the minority in his own cabinet - but also because he knows that the synagogue issue is irrelevant to his future plans.
Posted by Ted Belman at September 11, 2005 11:56 AM