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Former IDF Chief of Staff: \'Land for Peace Brought Wars\'
Cheshvan 21, 5769, 19 November 08 11:14![\"Yaalon](\"http://www.israelnationalnews.com/static/pictures/resized/136-106/28/28788.jpg\")
Yaalon {with Bibi)
Land for peace brings war
(IsraelNN.com)
Moshe Ya\'alon, a former IDF Chief of Staff who this week joined the
Likud party, declared Wednesday morning that the "land for peace"
policy he once backed has proven that giving up Jewish land to Arabs
brings war.
He
once stated that Israel could defend itself without the Golan Heights,
which outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has proposed giving to Syria.
Ya\'alon told Yaron Dekel, host of the It\'s All Talk Show on Voice of
Israel government radio, "I was a believer in land for peace, but I
have learned the past 15 years... it deteriorates our security."
Ya\'alon
was Chief of Staff during the government of former Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon, who made the unprecedented move of not extending his term of
office because of Ya\'alon\'s doubts about the plan to destroy all Jewish
presence in the Gaza region and withdraw all IDF troops.
He
said that the expulsion and the withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000 by
former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, now Defense Minister, left Israel
with Kassam and Grad attacks on the south and the Second Lebanon War in
the north.
Ya\'alon,
who lives on a Kibbutz, explained that the values he grew up with no
longer are represented in political parties he once identified with..
Referring
to Israel\'s first Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, Ya\'alon said that if
he were alive today, he "would not choose Labor, Meretz or Kadima."
The
new Likud member admitted that the decision to move into politics was
not easy. "My heart said \'no\' and my head said \'yes", he told reporters
Tuesday. "The head won."
He
explained Wednesday morning that he and his family will pay a heavy
price for his entering politics, a path that is strewn with booby traps
for the values he holds. "We need leadership in the face of the
security, education and economic crises," he explained.
Asked
if he wants to be Prime Minister, Ya\'alon replied, "It is not an
obsession. I did not even want to be an Army officer. I know people who
wanted to be Prime Minister from the day they were born, but I am not
one of them."
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