Israeli defense minister : If I had to choose between Iran and ISIS, I’d choose ISIS

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  • Le Washington Post nous avait déjà rapporté, en janvier 2016, cette parole de Moshe Yaalon (ministre de la Défense israélien) selon laquelle s’il avait à choisir entre Da’ich et Assad, il choisirait Da’ich : https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/01/19/israeli-defense-minister-if-i-had-to-choose-between-iran-and-isis-id-choose-isis/?tid=sm_tw

    Speaking at the Institute for National Security Studies’ (INSS) conference in Tel Aviv on Jan. 19, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon made a bold statement: If he had to choose between Iran and the Islamic State, he told the audience, he’d “choose ISIS.”

    Pour confirmer, Michael Oren, ex-ambassadeur aux USA et associé à l’actuelle coalition au pouvoir en Israel nous a fait un remake, rapporté dans le Wall Street Journal ce 17 mars :
    http://www.wsj.com/articles/israels-main-concern-in-syria-iran-not-isis-1458207000

    “If we have to choose between ISIS and Assad, we’ll take ISIS. ISIS has flatbed trucks and machine guns. Assad represents the strategic arch from Tehran to Beirut, 130,000 rockets in the hands of Hezbollah, and the Iranian nuclear program,” said Michael Oren, a prominent lawmaker from Israel’s governing coalition and a former ambassador to Washington.

    Parce que comme l’explique Dore Gold, du ministère des affaires étrangères :

    Asked in an interview to state Israel’s main objective in Syria, Dore Gold, the director-general of the foreign ministry, said: “At the end of the day, when some kind of modus vivendi is reached inside of Syria, it is critical from the Israeli standpoint that Syria does not emerge as an Iranian satellite incorporated fully into the Iranian strategic system.”

    • @gonzo : oui, c’est d’ailleurs ce que dit l’article en évoquant les craintes israéliennes d’un nouveau front dans le Golan organisé par le Hezbollah, et l’acquisition de nouvelles armes iraniennes.
      Mais j’avais oublié de mettre le lien vers l’article du WSJ, je viens de l’ajouter...

      As many Israeli officials see it, however, that wouldn’t be such a good scenario if it ends up benefiting the Syrian military and its critical Lebanese ally, the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia, which remains sworn to Israel’s destruction. [...]
      Israel’s immediate concerns are to prevent Hezbollah from opening a second front from Syrian soil opposite the Israeli-held Golan Heights, and to prevent transfers of sophisticated Iranian weapons to the Lebanese militia.

  • Des officiels du gouvernement israélien nous font savoir quelles sont leurs préférences politiques concernant les territoires de leur environnement régional et le sort des Etats arabes du Proche-Orient.

    Ayelet Shaked, qui suggérait de faire assassiner les mères des « terroristes » palestiniens, ci-devant Ministre israélienne de la Justice, souhaite un Etat kurde indépendant :
    http://www.todayszaman.com/diplomacy_israel-calls-for-independent-kurdish-state_410092.html

    Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked has called for an independent Kurdistan, a move which she says will weaken Israel’s rivals in the region.
    “We must openly call for the establishment of a Kurdish state that separates Iran from Turkey, one which will be friendly towards Israel,” Shaked told a conference in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, according to a Times of Israel report.
    Her call reflects a growing desire in Israel to foster robust relations with the Kurdish community in Iraq, and even promote the process of founding an independent state by the Kurdish people.
    Earlier this month, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Massoud Barzani spoke to diplomats from more than 30 countries in Arbil, Iraq about Kurdish plans to hold a referendum, as part of an effort to seek international backing for a decades-old Kurdish bid for a state of their own. Barzani instructed his party officials in December last year to speed up preparations to hold a referendum on whether to secede from Iraq.

    Quant au ministre israélien de la Défense, Moshe Yaalon, à tout prendre il préfère encore Da’ich que l’Iran en Syrie et note que les intérêts de l’Etat d’Israël et des pétromonarchies du Golfe sont convergents :
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/01/19/israeli-defense-minister-if-i-had-to-choose-between-iran-and-isis-id-choose-isis/?tid=sm_tw

    Speaking at the Institute for National Security Studies’ (INSS) conference in Tel Aviv on Jan. 19, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon made a bold statement: If he had to choose between Iran and the Islamic State, he told the audience, he’d “choose ISIS.”
    Ya’alon reasoned that Iran had greater capabilities than the Islamic State and remained the biggest threat for Israel. He argued that if Syria were to fall to one of the two powers, he would prefer it were the Islamic State rather than Iran or Iran-backed groups. “We believe ISIS will be eventually defeated territorially after the blows it has been suffering, and in light of the attacks on its oil reserves,” he told the conference, according to Ynetnews.
    Ya’alon said that current problems in the Middle East showed the region was at the “height of the clash of civilizations.” He also added that Israel shared common interests with the regional Sunni Muslim powers , who were also threatened by the Shia Muslim Iran.

    Voilà, mais on est bien d’accord que l’idée que l’accroissement des tensions sectaires dans la région, l’idéologie du clash des civilisations et la fragmentation politique selon une ligne ethnico-confessionnelle des États arabes voisins seraient dans l’intérêt d’Israël, et feraient l’objet d’une action politique et diplomatique en ce sens des sionistes en Israël et dans leurs relais en « Occident », est une abominable théorie du complot antisémite...

    #Israel #clash_des_civilisations #EI #Daech #Iran #Grand_Moyen-Orient #Syrie #Irak