INTO THE FRAY To: AIPAC’s CEO

We contingency all work toward that future: dual states for dual peoples. One Jewish with secure and confirmed borders, and one Palestinian with a possess dwindle and a possess future, Howard Kohr, Mar 4, 2018.

Last Sunday, in front of 18,000 charcterised pro-Israel activists, AIPAC’s CEO, Howard Kohr delivered a discriminating and carefully-crafted address—totally torpedoed about mid by his 25 notation debate by a few seconds of politically-correct claptrap.

After meticulously cataloguing a daunting dangers confronting Israel and a sinful inlet of her unethical adversaries—from a Shia “puppet master”, Iran, and a apprehension substitute Hezbollah in a North to a heartless Sunni Hamas and a assorted Salafi Jihadi renegades in a South—Kohr went on to propose…giving them precisely what they are allegedly clamoring for—at slightest initially: A self-governing Arab entity in a East, winning Israel’s densely populated coastal plain, abutting a trans-Israel highway and unaware Israel’s usually general airport.

Mutually disdainful goals: Palestinian statehood and a secure Israel

 I do not wish to dwell on all a judicious inconsistencies, significant inaccuracies and vivid non-sequiturs that injured a second half of Kohr’s impeccably delivered speech. Rather, we shall concentration on usually one: His call for a state for a Palestinians “with a possess dwindle and a possess future” on a one hand; and “secure and confirmed borders” for Israel on a other.

 After all, Palestinian statehood and a secure Israel are jointly disdainful goals. Indeed, this was always a supposed knowledge in Israel – until a sermon was hijacked by a authoritarian diktats of politically scold dogma.

 Thus, it was nothing other than Nobel laureate, a late Shimon Peres, who warned: If a Palestinian state is established, it will be armed to a teeth. Within it, there will be bases of a many impassioned militant forces, versed with anti-tank and anti-aircraft shoulder-launched rockets, that will discredit not usually pointless passers-by, though each aeroplane and helicopter holding off in a skies of Israel and each car roving along a critical trade routes in a coastal plain .- “Tomorrow is Now” (Keter publishers), pp. 232, 255.

This forbidding premonition was echoed by Israel Prize laureate, Prof. Amnon Rubinstein, who also served as Education Minister on interest of a far-Left Meretz faction: “…Israel, tiny and exposed, will conjunction be means to exist nor pullulate if a civic centers [and] a unprotected airport…are shelled…this is a terrible risk concerned in a investiture of a third eccentric emperor state between us and a Jordan River. – ‘The Pitfall of a Third State’, Haaretz, Aug. 8, 1976.

These dual citations convey, with chilling accuracy, a grave perils to that Israel would be unprotected if a Palestinian state were ever determined on a autocratic hills unaware a country’s coastal megalopolis, where about 80% of a country’s municipal race and blurb activity are located.

These dangers are dramatically illustrated by a following array of photographs, shot from locations inside a domain designated for any destiny Palestinian state.

All taken on Jan 31, 2018, regulating a Canon 7D Mark II camera, propitious with a Sigma Sport 150/600 lens, from usually easterly of a Palestinian-Arab villages of Rantis and Al-Lubban, located about 5 km opposite a pre-1967 “Green Line” (see map), they vividly communicate how unprotected and unprotected Israel would seem by a binoculars of any Palestinian “intelligence officer” (a.k.a. terrorist) perched on those heights.

Ben Gurion Airport hopelessly exposed

 The following 4 photographs etch how definitely unprotected a installations and aircraft – both on a belligerent and in a sky – would be to any antagonistic forces–even easily armed–deployed on a highlands easterly of Israel’s densely populated coastal plain.

Above: Israel’s usually general airport, Ben Gurion – as seen from usually easterly of a Palestinian-Arab villages of Rantis and Al-Lubban (buildings seen in foreground), display a new control tower, a newcomer terminal, a duty-free area and planes advancing for embarkation/disembarkation.

Above: Israel’s usually general airport, Ben Gurion – as seen from usually easterly of a Palestinian-Arab villages of Rantis and Al-Lubban display countless municipal planes on a tarmac.

Above: A craft holding off from Ben Gurion, Israel’s usually general airfield – as seen from usually easterly of a Palestinian-Arab villages of Rantis and Al-Lubban.

Above: Arkia airliner holding off from Ben Gurion airfield – shot from usually easterly of a Palestinian-Arab villages of Rantis and Al-Lubban. (Camera: Canon 7D Mark II with Sigma Sport 150/600 lens).

A tantalizing target: Israel coastal civic sprawl

The subsequent 5 photographs communicate starkly what a tantalizing aim a bureau buildings, prestigious unit blocks, plentiful recreational and party centers and executive ride arteries (rail and road) would be if a IDF were to leave areas earmarked for a destiny Palestinian  state.

Above: Tel Aviv skyline display a iconic Azrieli high-rise complex, adjacent to a Ministry of Defense and IDF’s GHQ, a trans-Tel Aviv Ayalon Highway and a busy HaShalom railway station; also seen is Kirya (Ha-Yovel) Tower, with 28 of a 42 floors assigned by supervision offices, and a nearby Azrieli Sarona Tower, a tallest building in Tel Aviv – as seen from usually easterly of a Palestinian-Arab villages of Rantis Al-Lubban.

Above-Enlarged: The Azrieli high-rise complex, adjacent to a Ministry of Defense and IDF’s GHQ, a trans-Tel Aviv Ayalon Highway and a busy HaShalom railway station; also the Kirya (Ha-Yovel) Tower, with 28 of a 42 floors assigned by supervision offices, the Azrieli Sarona Tower, a tallest building in Tel Aviv.

Above: Tel Aviv skyline display a oppulance unit complex, Park Tsameret, adjacent to a trans-Tel Aviv (Ayalon) highway and a bustling Savidor Central railway station – as seen from usually easterly of a Palestinian-Arab villages of Rantis and Al-Lubban.

Above: Enlarged: North Tel Aviv skyline display a oppulance unit complex, Park Tsameret, adjacent to a trans-Tel Aviv (Ayalon) highway and a bustling Savidor Central railway station.

Above: North Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, Bnei Brak sky-line display the Reading Power Station chimney, adjacent to the Tel Aviv Port distraction area, and a 4 BSR Towers, that residence many upmarket law firms, medical facilities, hi-tech offices and countless bustling restaurants– as seen from usually easterly of a Palestinian-Arab villages of Rantis Al-Lubban.

The needed to “think ahead”

In a opening mins of his address, Kohr observed: “…there have been many threats [to Israel]; many some-more prepared to make them. So it is a purpose and goal to always consider ahead, ready for any possibility…”

And indeed we should.

One of a “possibilities” we should “prepare for” is a (highly plausible) awaiting that any land vacated by Israel and a IDF will tumble into a hands of vehemently antagonistic elements – as happened each time Israel has relinquished domain to Arab control—whether in a North in South Lebanon; in a South in a Gaza Strip, and even in Sinai, now forward into a evil of Jihadi brutality…

Of course, once Israel evacuates a strategically critical highlands of Judea-Samaria to promote a investiture of a Palestinian state “with a possess dwindle and a possess future”; there is no approach that Israel can have “secure and confirmed borders”—for there is no approach it can safeguard that they will not tumble into a really hands of those who Kohr so excoriated in his speech—including elements tranquil by a apprehension “puppet masters” in Tehran.

So we should all mind Kohr’s correct warn and make it “our… goal to always consider ahead, ready for any possibility…”

So should Kohr!