Opinion  Ron Ben-Yishai
Iranian axis threat that led Lieberman to seek increased IDF budget
Ron Ben-Yishai
Published: 25.11.17, 23:42
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1. IDF budget : slierd can de velde
Maurice ,   Antwerp   (11.26.17)
U gaat verder met uw onnozele commentaren in gebroken Engels. Hou er mee op!
2. The world has only begun to grasp ... 'holy delusional' ...
jfraser ,   Chicago   (11.26.17)
The world has only begun to comprehend how 'holy delusional' religious thinking, CREATES the 'right or EXACT conditions' for our human species' extinction.
3. ISLAM-IDEOLOGY AND THE REST OF CRIME AGAINST OUR UNITED
SJOERD VAN DER VELDE ,   MUNICIPALITY HOORN   (11.26.17)
HUMANKIND. IF ANYBODY AGREES, FOR EXAMPLE, ISLAM-IDEOLOGY AND THE REST OF CRIME ARE A THREAT, DANGER, DISASTER TO/AGAINST OUR UNITED HUMANKIND. IT/THAT/THIS HAS TO SOLVED NOW, 2017, FOR OUR HUMAN WORLD-POPULATION. S. R. V. D. V.
4. Israel has waited too long to attack
C   (11.26.17)
offence is the best defence.

israel waited until she has become strategically vulnerable.

netanyahu should stop worrying about other issues and take out
enemy bases and weapons systems in syria and lebanon.
if he does not do so, israel will be in much greater threat.
5. same old ben yishai passive defense
harold   (11.26.17)
when the west bank intifada took place, sharon went into the field after a slow start, got out the maps and told the senior commanders to get off their asses, and get moving. and they did.

the analysis of ben yishai is purely defensive and falls into olmert halutz and bibi thinking and it is not good.

idf has to hit lebanon syria and tehran if it gets nailed by their forces. israel can do it. one thing they have not done is to amass thousands of land based rockets with which to blitz lebanon and syria. why? Because the chosen people don't want to harm innocents, they want to only fly and bomb where they can. you cannot win a hot war this way. israel is not using massive land blitzs in their arsenal.

and netanyahu is utterly incapble of leading a multifront war requiring a sobre eye and savage fighting. he is too weak along wiht herzog and gabbay.
6. Last week same journalist
Avi L.   (11.26.17)
Strange, just last week the same journalist was saying the opposite,
"The presence of Iranian forces in Syria and of Iranian-backed militias not far from the border is the less troubling issue as far as Israel is concerned."
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5043700,00.html

Finally thanks to Lieberman and the IDF, Israelis are being told that not all is besseder gamour in Bibiland.

It is finaly time for the citizen to be told
- that we cannot count on Putin or on other "special friendships", that maybe Donald will heed his controller orders and will go against us
- that all the S300 and S400 will change the game
- that to stop the rain of hundred of thousands of missiles Israel will need an absurd number of interceptors and launchers,
- that the Country will stop to function for the time it will take
- that at the first signs of weakness friends and allies could try to bite

That this will be the worst since 1948, while some (alleged) criminals are playing with Israel's security to make "some profit", while others, always for the same reason were trying and sell some reduced IDF, privatized, smaller because there were no more existential threats.

Some delusional selfserving profiteur who wanted us to believe that with Assad on his knees it was "the end og history" in the middle east.
7. where are the subs
C   (11.26.17)
they might be sitting off the coast of iran.
the subs are undoubtedly in a strategic place.

the israeli left wants to punish those who "might" have received perhaps
some money for the subs--and to hell with the country.
they will talk purity of arms while the country is threatened on all sides.
8. It is sensible to protect the population
Tehraniporou   (11.27.17)
Given the stakes iran and israels gov must talk to each other directly. It would be insensible not to try diplomacy
9. So whats your alternative short of a conflict or a miracle
Tehraniporou   (11.27.17)
Leading to the peaceful transition from the islamic republic to the republic of iran? The first option being war, attrition and competition seems too risky since an alternative of diplomacy would exist. It cannot ne public but since the best option. Peace is made with adversaries. Should israel accept the saudi peace initiative under the auspice of the royal trumpness in six months, it should also keep its options open and attempt to talk to the iranians and the best way are the turks or armenians.
10. Motek how do you know it? Were you privy to intelligence
Tehraniporou   (11.29.17)
That you'd like to make public?
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