Wird doch medial ständig der Eindruck erweckt, Israel würde stets mehr oder weniger nur in Notwehrsituationen handeln und Angriffe gegen Stellungen der Hamas, Hisbollah oder in Syrien fliegen. :rolleyes:
Das Palästinenster oder Schiiten keinen echten Frieden mit Israel haben wollen, ist mir schon klar. Für "gläubige" Muslime ist ein jüdischer Staat nicht hinnehmbar und deswegen wird es keine Lösung in Nah-Ost geben.
Anderseits, was will Israel wirklich? Aus Israels Flagge zu schließen, sollten die Grenzen Israels zwischen Euphrat und Nil (die beiden blauen Streifen der Fahne) ausdehnen.
»An dem Tag schloß der Herr einen Bund mit Abraham und sprach: seinen Nachkommen will ich dies Land geben, von dem Strom Ägyptens bis an den großen Strom Euphrat.« Moses, Buch I, Kap. 15, Vers 18
Ein Auszug über ein interessantes Interview bezüglich Golan (welches postum veröffentlicht wurde) gab Israels verstorbener Kriegsheld Moshe Dayan:
General's Words Shed a New Light on the Golan
It is an article of faith among Israelis that the Golan Heights were seized in the 1967 Middle East war to stop Syria from shelling the Israeli settlements down below. The future of the Golan Heights is central to the search for peace in the Middle East, and much of the case against giving the Golan Heights back to Syria rests on the fear of reviving that threat.
But like many another of Israel's founding legends, this one has come under question lately, and from a most surprising quarter: Moshe Dayan, the celebrated commander who, as Defense Minister in 1967, gave the order to conquer the Golan.
General Dayan died in 1981. But in conversations with a young reporter five years earlier, he said he regretted not having stuck to his initial opposition to storming the Golan Heights. There really was no pressing reason to do so, he said, because many of the firefights with the Syrians were deliberately provoked by Israel, and the kibbutz residents who pressed the Government to take the Golan Heights did so less for security than for the farmland.
General Dayan did not mean the conversations as an interview, and the reporter, Rami Tal, kept his notes secret for 21 years -- until he was persuaded by a friend to make them public. They were authenticated by historians and by General Dayan's daughter Yael Dayan, a member of Parliament, and published two weeks ago in the weekend magazine of the newspaper Yediot Ahronot.
Historians have already begun to debate whether General Dayan was giving an accurate account of the situation in 1967 or whether his version of what happened was colored by his disgrace after the 1973 Middle East war, when he was forced to resign as Defense Minister over the failure to anticipate the Arab attack.
But on a more immediate level, the general's 21-year-old comments play directly into the current dispute over whether the Golan Heights should be returned to Syria in exchange for peace. The Government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is firmly opposed to returning the Golan, contending that the high ground is vital for Israel's security.
''Look, it's possible to talk in terms of 'the Syrians are bastards, you have to get them, and this is the right time,' and other such talk, but that is not policy,'' General Dayan told Mr. Tal in 1976. ''You don't strike at the enemy because he is a bastard, but because he threatens you. And the Syrians, on the fourth day of the war, were not a threat to us.''
According to the published notes, Mr. Tal began to remonstrate, ''But they were sitting on the Golan Heights, and . . . ''
General Dayan interrupted: ''Never mind that. After all, I know how at least 80 percent of the clashes there started. In my opinion, more than 80 percent, but let's talk about 80 percent. It went this way: We would send a tractor to plow some area where it wasn't possible to do anything, in the demilitarized area, and knew in advance that the Syrians would start to shoot. If they didn't shoot, we would tell the tractor to advance farther, until in the end the Syrians would get annoyed and shoot. And then we would use artillery and later the air force also, and that's how it was.''
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