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Who is Israel's true enemy?
Giora Eiland
Published: 05.09.19, 23:54
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1. I don't like Hezb,but they have right to defend themselves
kms ,   Jerusalem   (09.06.19)
2. Natanyahoo and Extreme Right
Wiley ,   Weinstein   (09.06.19)
Extreme Right is Israel's True Enemy...,
The greed for land is blinding The Right Camp...
OK... you can have the land...
Now what will you do with 6.5m Palis?

The time of "Transfers" is way behind us..

Let me know please....
3. Clearly: Russia!
Y87   (09.06.19)
4. eiland is whistling past the graveyard
bob   (09.06.19)
bibi will never pull the trigger on preemptive or massive counterattack. his idea of great success is fooling Hezbollah on 4 or 5 casualties. face facts-he is weak and lacks guts. he holds hands with Boris Johnson of England and hugs donald trump and cries to putin because he wants them to take care of business. he is not doing it and would never do it period.

so would gantz do it. look at what he did in gaza. no he is not doing it. his solution is to withdraw based on a referendum from parts of west bank. who knows-maybe he will cut a deal to give part of the Golan which is suicide. you might as well start moving out of tel aviv.

there are only 2 or 3 politicians who would go all out-Bennett, shaked and lieberman.


so do not vote for bibi or gantz and lapid.elect shaked and bennett pm.
5. Israel must permanently retake our So. Lebanon Security Zone
Chaim ,   Israel   (09.06.19)
Eiland is right about Lebanon. Lebanon is enabling Hezbullah atrocities and it must be held responsible for them. But Lebanon has neither the desire nor the ability to do so. The solution is for Israel to permanently retake our South Lebanon Security Zone. ALL of the terror, wars and rockets we suffer from Lebanon are the DIRECT result of that insane retreat.
6. Israel said Hezbollah had 100K missiles and yet in ....
NYC   (09.06.19)
this article Syria a real country is admitted to have only dozens of SCUD missiles. Big difference between 100,000 missiles and some multiple of 12.
7. this is a confused, poorly written article
Rafi ,   US   (09.07.19)
Eiland returns to his favorite theme of going to full war against the virtually non-existent, "in name only" Government of Lebanon.

What exactly is that supposed to accomplish... when virtually all cards are held by powerful Hezbollah and its mentor Iran?

Eiland also gets into a long-winded discussion about "pre-emptive attack" vs. "a forward counterstrike". Perhaps it's the translation, but the result here is GARBLED logic. If war erupts will these semantic distinctions make a difference?

Let's hope that the IDF command does not think & analyze like Gen. Eiland does.
8. Enemy/enemies of Israel
Sjoerd van der Velde ,   Hoorn Holland   (09.07.19)
The closet enemies are within Israel,those who are disloyal to Israel and want to destroy it. Then hezbollah, hamas and islamic jihad.
9. throw the baby with the water 1
Avi L.   (09.09.19)
Beyond the fact that Lebanon is hostage of the khomeinists, that a good majority of the Lebanese would like to see the end of hezballah, that the punishment meted on Lebanon in 2006 didn't bring to the demise of hezballah, despite that now arab governments are actively acting against khomeinists and would generously support any anti iranian action, nevertheless Israeli citizens keep being exposed to half baked strategies that would at the very least justify nasrallah claim to be the resistance to Zionist aggression and bring even more antisemitism and condemnation of Israel by the international yellow belly community

Instead of sparing public infrastructure, weakening khomeinist power, making them loose face and opening the way for an anti iranian movement to settle some old accounts, like Hariri assassination etc, bringing thus Lebanon into the anti Tehran front, some rather clueless so called strategist want to bomb everything.

The 2006 destruction didn't stop hezballah from increasing its arsenal from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of missiles and rockets, it didn't stopped tehran from strangling even more Lebanon but it gave nasrallah cause to present himself as the resistance
10. Throw the baby with the water 2
Avi L.   (09.09.19)
More of the same?

Why not try and conquer mind, hearts and pockets showing to lebane people that Israel is not against them, that hezballah isn't resisting to anything but against Lebanon itself and that saudis and emiratis could fill their pockets too?

And instead of hitting bridges, power systems and other utility infrastructures in Lebanon, why not hit khomeinists in Syria too, it would make more sense than meting more suffering on lebaneses

This grand strategy looks like the bleedings of pre scientific medicine, bleed the patient (the one who suffer, Lebanon) instead of ending the cause of the suffering (khomeinists
11. Lebanon is NOT the enemy
Avi L.   (09.09.19)
Lebanon is NOT the enemy

Lebanese people, after having been under syrian occupation, "falastinian" racketing, tasting khomeinist brutal lordship, want peace and prosperity as anybody else

For the first time in history arab governments of the anti iranian front are more than eager to pour billions on anybody who could weaken khomeinists and work with Israel

Instead of trying to appease hamas buying "quiet" paying dhimma racket and turning lebanese even more against Israel, pay lebanese and gazan anti khomeinists while hitting only hamas and hezballah.

Bombing everything is not the solution, it is not Stalingrad, it is not Grozny, it is not Aleppo.

Israel always excelled in intelligent, selective warfare.

Flattening a whole country is dumb, brutish and will only bring dire consequences ... what if the next president of the USA happens to be , heavens forbid, Sanders helped by that sarsour and other Jews haters?
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