Gideon Levy And The Dog That Doesn’t Bark

Eamonn McDonagh
Z-Word Blog
12 December '10

Gideon Levy says that…

1. The deficiencies in Israel’s firefighting capacity shown up by the Mount Carmel fire are firm evidence that Israel has no military option against Iran.

But might not the opposite argument - that the weaknesses shown up by the fire are now likely to be addressed and Israel will therefore soon be better placed to strike than it was before the fire - be just as valid?

2. In any future war with Lebanon and/or Iran the enemy’s focus will be on firing thousands of rockets at Israel’s population centers.

That’s not exactly news to anyone who takes an interest in these matters and Amos Yadlin, the former head of military intelligence, recently said as much in his farewell speech. Like so many others, Levy doesn’t regard it as worthy of comment that having despaired of defeating its armed forces, Israel’s enemies are now planning to destroy it by killing its civilians in massive numbers.

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This leads to the second, unavoidable conclusion, which should penetrate very deeply, not only among diplomats and commanders, but also among the many warmongers among us: the only existential option is integrating into the region.

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