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by Richard Kemp
• October 23, 2014 at 5:00 am
Would
General Allen -- or any other general today -- recommend contracting out
his country's defenses if it were his country at stake? Of course not.
The
Iranian regime remains dedicated to undermining and ultimately destroying
the State of Israel. The Islamic State also has Israel in its sights and
would certainly use the West Bank as a point from which to attack, if it
were open to them.
There
can be no two-state solution and no sovereign Palestinian Arab state west
of the Jordan, however desirable those things might be. The stark
military reality is that Israel cannot withdraw its forces from the West
Bank.
Fatah
leaders ally themselves with the terrorists of Hamas, and, like Hamas,
they continue to reject the every existence of the State of Israel.
If
Western leaders actually want to help, they should use all diplomatic and
economic means to make it clear to the Palestinians that they will never
achieve an independent and sovereign state while they remain set on the
destruction of the State of Israel.
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General Douglas MacArthur (left) strongly believed
in forward defense. General John Allen (right) also believes in forward
defense -- but for U.S. forces only, not for the Israel's military
defending its borders.
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When in 1942 American General Douglas MacArthur took command of the
defense of Australia against imminent Japanese invasion, one of the plans
he rejected was to withdraw and fight behind the Brisbane line, a move
that would have given large swathes of territory to the Japanese.
Instead, he adopted a policy of forward defense: advancing
northwards out of Australia to attack the Japanese on the island of New
Guinea. MacArthur then went on to play a pivotal role in the defeat of
the Japanese empire.
At the end of last year, during the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations
involving U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, another extremely able and
widely respected American General, John Allen, drew up a plan
progressively to withdraw Israeli forces from the West Bank and hand over
Israel's forward defense to a combination of Palestinian Arab forces,
international monitors and technology.
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