ISRAEL'S STRATEGY IN DESTABILIZING ITS ARAB NEIGHBORS (taken from former Prime Minister Moshe Sharett's diary.)
"to provoke or create the appearance of an Arab threat to lsrael's existence was summed up by the then "number two" of the Zionist state's hierarchy:
I have been meditating on the long chain of false incidents and hostilities we have invented, and on the many clashes we have provoked which cost us so much blood, and on the violations of the law by our men-all of which brought grave disasters and determined the whole course of events and contributed to the security crisis.
A week earlier, Moshe Dayan, then lsrael's chief of staff, explained why Israel needed to reject any border security arrangements offered by the neighboring Arab States, or by the United Nations, as well as the formal security guarantees suggested by the United States. Such guarantees, he predicted, might "tie lsrael's hands." Presumably, that would render unjustifiable or even impossible those attacks and incursions across the armistice lines which through the mid-1950s went under the euphemistic name of reprisal actions. These actions, Dayan said,
are our vital lymph. They...help us maintain a high tension among our population and in the army...in order to have young men go to the Negev we have to cry out that it is in danger. (26 May 1955, 1021)" |
