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Ynetnews News - PM refutes fmr. dep. IDF chief’s PKK comments
▻https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5015867,00.html

Mere hours after former deputy IDF chief of staff Yair Golan said he does not consider the Kurdish resistance movement PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) a “terrorist organization”, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stepped in to refute his claim in an attempt to head off a diplomatic crisis.

 
“#Israel objects to the #PKK and considers it a terrorist organization, unlike Turkey, which support a different terrorist organization: Hamas,” Netanyahu said.

Le conflit syrien se termine mais les USA restent sur le terrain
Par M.K. Bhadrakumar, 11 septembre 2017
Article original : Syrian conflict is ending but US stays put | traduction : Jean-François Goulon
▻https://blogs.mediapart.fr/jean-francois-goulon/blog/120917/le-conflit-syrien-se-termine-mais-les-usa-restent-sur-le-terrain

(...) Il y a deux choses en jeu – l’une, la saisie des vastes champs pétrolifères qui reposent à l’est et au nord de Deir ez-Zor, lesquels sont les joyaux de l’économie syrienne ; la seconde, le contrôle de la frontière syro-irakienne le long de l’Euphrate et plus loin vers le sud, à travers laquelle un « isthme » pourrait potentiellement relier Damas à Téhéran via Bagdad. Par conséquent, tant en termes économiques que pour des raisons géopolitiques, les USA (encouragés par Israël) font une course contre la montre dans cette phase finale du conflit afin d’établir une présence militaire dans les régions orientale et sud-orientale de la Syrie.

Ces raisons géopolitiques sont triples : a) Les USA chercheraient à avoir « leur mot à dire » dans quelque règlement syrien que ce soit ; b) Les USA espèrent défier l’influence en cascade de l’Iran en Syrie et au Liban ; et, c) Les USA se sentent obligés d’être des pourvoyeurs de sécurité pour Israël. Ces trois facteurs sont liés. Le fait est, comme le souligne un reportage du Times of Israel, qu’Israël reconnait ses limites pour combattre militairement l’Iran par ses propres moyens. Le général Yair Golan, ancien chef d’état-major adjoint de l’armée israélienne aurait dit, jeudi dernier, dans un discours étonnant devant le Washington Institute of Near East Policy [1] :

Nous [Israël] vivons dans un monde où nous ne pouvons pas opérer seuls, pas seulement parce que nous n’avons aucune force expéditionnaire en Israël […] Et tandis que nous pouvons remporter une victoire décisive contre le Hezbollah […] et tandis que nous pouvons vaincre toute milice chiite en Syrie […] nous ne pouvons pas nous battre seuls contre l’Iran […] Donc, sans doute, peuvent-ils nous affecter, et nous pouvons les affecter. Mais tout cela n’est qu’une question d’usure […] Si l’on veut remporter quelque chose de plus profond, nous ne pouvons le faire seuls. Et c’est une réalité. Il vaut mieux l’admettre. Nous devons connaître nos limites.

Il est inutile de dire qu’Israël ne permettra pas à l’administration Trump d’approuver un retrait total de Syrie des troupes nord-américaines. Autrement dit, une sorte de présence étasunienne le long des rives orientales de l’Euphrate est dans les tuyaux, à l’insistance d’Israël. On lira avec intérêt un article d’opinion intitulé Trump’s Big Decision in Syria, de David Ignatius et publié dans le Washington Post la semaine dernière à propos du débat à Washington.(...)

Pourquoi ce général comparerait-il Israël à l’Allemagne des années 1930 ? Hmm...
De B. Michael |Haaretz - 15 mai 2016 | Traductions Yves Jardin AFPS
▻http://www.france-palestine.org/Pourquoi-ce-general-comparerait-il-Israel-a-l-Allemagne-des-annees

Qu’est-ce qui est passé par la tête de ce général antisémite quand il a comparé le Peuple Elu à l’Europe des années 1930 ? Quelques indications.

Le chef d’état-major adjoint Yaïr Golan a comparé le 4 mai dernier Israël à l’Allemagne des années 30, ce qui a entraîné de vives réactions dans la droit israélienne. Rami Shlush

Avec toutes les fêtes et tous les jours de tristesse derrière nous, nous pouvons maintenant revenir à la question lancinante : que diable est-il passé par la tête de ce général antisémite quand il a osé insinuer que nous, le Peuple Elu, commettons des actes abominables comparables à ceux perpétrés par les gentils ? (...)

The Israeli Generals Who Shoot and Cry and Shoot Again

It’s nice that some of Israel’s most senior commanders are sounding the moral alarm, but what are they doing to change anything?

Gideon Levy, Haaretz, May 08, 2016 2:42 AM

▻http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.718435

And here they come, those new-old sensitive heroes, soldiers who shoot but cry over it, a 2016 version of the Six-Day War soldiers featured in “The Seventh Day: Soldiers Talk about the Six-Day War.” In the Six-Day War, they were soldiers who shot and cried and were therefore considered moral. After the second intifada that broke out in 2000, there were the old-boy “gatekeepers,” (the former Shin Bet security service directors) who suddenly sobered up and were deemed men of conscience.
Now it’s the turn of the most senior commanders in office who are sobering up and sounding the alarm, the threesome of Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot and Deputy Chief of Staff Yair Golan. It could have impressed and inspired respect had it not been for one tiny problem. The three aren’t doing a thing to change the situation that they are taking exception to.
These nice and principled military figures are beloved on the center-left, which has always dreamed about ethical generals who make eloquent Holocaust Remembrance Day speeches, but they are nothing more than empty salves to the conscience of the purportedly enlightened tribe.
Ya’alon, Eisenkot and Golan said some things that are correct and resounding. Ya’alon warned against the army becoming bestial. For his part, Eisenkot doesn’t want soldiers to empty their ammunition cartridges on 13-year-old girls. And last week on Holocaust Day, Golan said he saw concerning signs reminiscent of pre-Holocaust Germany in Israel.
It’s hard not to appreciate their courage, but we cannot ignore the fact that these are not three observers from the sidelines. All three bear direct and heavy responsibility for the situation that they are criticizing and have contributed for years to bringing it about.
They head the IDF, which is one of the most major agents of damage to Israeli society. They are in charge of an army most of whose operations consist of maintaining the occupation through brutal force. And anyone who heads an occupation army, who has commanded some of its worst military operations, lacks the necessary moral authority to preach morality — unless they have truly changed.
Ya’alon is warning about the army becoming bestialized? But it is he who has been in charge of it, first as IDF chief of staff and currently as defense minister. Who can change it, if not him? Eisenkot doesn’t want soldiers emptying their bullets into a girl? He can prevent that. Golan sees signs causing him concern? Some of them originated in the army in which he serves as deputy chief of staff.
So here’s a short reminder of the pasts of these new prophets of doom of Israel. Ya’alon, the former clarinetist and farmer, was IDF chief of staff during the Defensive Shield offensive in the West Bank in 2002 and for Operation Days of Penitence in Gaza in 2004, operations that sowed horrifying death and destruction. Perhaps it was then that the bestialization of the IDF began. A few days before his comments of rebuke, Ya’alon set upon the veterans group Breaking the Silence, accusing it of treason. Even if he then retracted the accusation, his comments did not counter the bestialization, but rather contributed to it.
Both Eisenkot and Golan are former commanders of the IDF’s West Bank division. They are well aware of what the occupation looks like and the harm it causes the occupied and the occupier. That same Eisenkot who now doesn’t want soldiers emptying a magazine into a girl was one of the fathers of the so-called Dahiya doctrine, through which the IDF emptied a lot more than magazines into many boys and girls in Lebanon. So why shouldn’t his troops continue to apply the doctrine in Hebron in the West Bank too?
So why shouldn’t his troops continue to apply the doctrine in Hebron in the West Bank too?

Un chef militaire israélien compare Israël à l’Allemagne des années 30
Publié le 05 mai 2016 | Agence France-Presse - JÉRUSALEM
▻http://www.lapresse.ca/international/moyen-orient/201605/05/01-4978305-un-chef-militaire-israelien-compare-israel-a-lallemagne-des-anne

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Un haut responsable militaire israélien a provoqué une controverse en invitant à un « examen de conscience national » à l’occasion de la journée de commémoration de la Shoah, ses détracteurs l’accusant de fournir des arguments aux ennemis du pays.

Le chef d’état-major adjoint Yaïr Golan, connu pour son franc-parler, a déclaré mercredi soir que la Shoah devait « nous pousser à réfléchir sur la nature de l’homme, même quand cet homme est nous-mêmes (sic) ».

« S’il y a quelque chose qui m’inquiète dans les commémorations de la Shoah, c’est de voir les processus nauséabonds qui se sont déroulés en Europe en général, et plus particulièrement en Allemagne, il y a 70, 80, 90 ans et de voir des signes de cela parmi nous en cette année 2016 », a-t-il déclaré lors d’un discours marquant le début des commémorations.

« Après tout, il n’y a rien de plus simple et de plus facile que de haïr l’étranger (...) de susciter la peur et d’intimider (...) de devenir bestial, d’oublier les principes et d’être content de soi », a-t-il ajouté.

Top Israeli General: As Long as Erdogan Is in Power, Israel Will Face Problems
Warning comes amid ongoing efforts at reconciliation between countries; IDF deputy chief of staff also criticized U.S. military’s ’custom of using extensive military force’

Gili Cohen Mar 18, 2016

▻http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.709544

Amid ongoing negotiations toward reconciliation between Israel and Turkey, the IDF deputy chief of staff made rare remarks on Tuesday regarding the negative effects the regime of Recep Erdogan has on the two countries’ relationship. 
“As long as Turkey is ruled by a party with a strong Islamist orientation, by a ruler as adversarial as Erdogan, as long as this is the situation – we can expect problems and challenges,” Maj. Gen. Yair Golan said at a conference on “The IDF’s current challenges” at Bar-Ilan University.
Terming Turkey a “very problematic factor,” Golan added that Israel ought not intentionally create hostility and tense relations with Turkey, since Turkey is a “large and powerful country.” Israel should instead strive to reduce tensions with Turkey, “while protecting our principles,” Golan said. 
“This is a complicated subject but it should not lead us to extremes and undesirable corners,” he added.
Ties between the two countries deteriorated sharply after a confrontation in the Mediterranean in May 2010 between Israel Navy commandos and passengers on the Mavi Marmara, a ship that was part of a flotilla seeking to break Israel’s naval blockade of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Ten of the ship’s passengers were killed in the confrontation and a number of the commandos were injured in the confrontation.
Recently, senior Turkish officials have said that the crisis between the countries could soon be over. In Israel, however, it has been stressed that sticking points in the negotiations remain, along with the stance that the optimism the government in Ankara is conveying is overstated. 
In the conference, Golan also criticized U.S.’s military actions, saying that “The United States has made it a custom of using extensive military force in recent years – I’m not sure it’s to its benefit.” The U.S. military is “impressive,” Golan said, but “in very many ways not much better than ours.” 
"There are things in which they are better and things in which they are less good,” he said.
Asked about the IDF’s relations with the Russian military, in light of Russia’s campaign in neighboring Syria, Golan said that while the Russian presence in the region cannot be ignored it’s “not necessarily bad.” 
The Russians “understand excellently” Israel’s red lines and dialogue with the Russian military was very good, Golan added. Coordination to avoid unnecessary friction between the two militaries is carried out on a very high level, he said.
“Around certain events, when possible friction arose, we sat together and things were immediately corrected,” Golan said. “We are alright with them, don’t worry.”
Golan also said that there is no need to use military power to invade Lebanon to wipe out the tens of thousands of missiles and rockets in the hands of Hezbollah. “We should go slowly. If in this chaos our situation is relatively comfortable, and I think it’s relatively comfortable, so let’s not disrupt it. And we will relate to threats from a position of strength.”
Regarding Israel’s southern front with Gaza, Golan said he was “not convinced that this is a major reason for pride, the fact that we gave a number of years for Hamas and other groups to fire on residents of the border area around the Gaza Strip.”