A CLOSER LOOK AT ISRAEL...Part II

Despite the constant affirmations about the nations' desire for peace, weapons labs and armories are producing nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, together with astronomical numbers of conventional weapons, in virtually every nation on earth. Research indicates that almost 40 percent of all scientific research funding worldwide, is focused on arms research; the International Arms Trade exceeds $1 trillion annually. The armament factories of Russia, China, and the Western Nations, are producing sophisticated weaponry at a truly awesome rate. A military study, The War Atlas, concluded that the World has not known a single day since World War II, without some Nation waging a war or conflict somewhere on Earth. Despite thousands of peace treaties, the last one hundred years has truly become "the century of war." Far more sobering than the increasing frequency of war, is the fact that modern scientific discoveries and massive military budgets, have combined to produce devastating new weapons of mass destruction that have the potential, for the first time in history, to destroy Humanity.


Despite years of peace negotiations between the PLO, the Arab states, and Israel, the continuing tensions in the Middle East are developing into a time bomb that could soon explode into a devastating war. This war may involve the use of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. Although these nations have been discussing peace for decades, the twenty-one Arab nations surrounding Israel, have accumulated more than three times the artillery and tanks possessed by the combined European armies of NATO. Despite America's support of Israel, the United States has sold staggering amounts of sophisticated Abram's m-1 tanks, advanced anti-tank missiles, communications gear, and the most effective f-16 fighter planes in the American arsenal, to the Arab states, dedicated to the destruction of the Jewish state. The Arab nations have no significant enemies other than Israel; now consider the implications. Over the last fifty years, NATO has built up a huge sophisticated military force to confront the massive armies of Russia, the fourteen nations of the C.I.S., and the nations of Eastern Europe. However, the Arab nations confronting the tiny nation of Israel, have amassed huge armies that exceed NATO's military forces, by more than one-half million soldiers. There is no conceivable reason for the Arab states to devote such huge financial, technical, and manpower resources to their military forces, unless they are absolutely committed to the annihilation of the Jews of Israel!


The Jewish state is confronted with a combined Arab military force, far larger than the combined armies of North America and Europe, the countries that make up the forces of the NATO alliance. In light of the repeated Arab threats to destroy Israel, Israel cannot safely agree to surrender the military control of the West Bank. If the 80,000-man Palestinian army of the PLO, controlled the high mountainous region of the West Bank of Israel in a future war, the combined Arab armies could easily attack across the remaining narrow band of land along the Mediterranean Sea connecting northern and southern Israel. At certain points, this vital and strategic strip of coastal land connecting northern and southern Israel, is only nine miles wide between the West Bank and the Mediterranean Sea. Israel's military control of the strategic depth of the West Bank is essential, according to all military studies, to absorb and withstand the assault of combined Arab tank and infantry forces.


Numerous military studies by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, have concluded that if Israel ever surrenders military control of the West Bank, the Arab armies would be able to cut Israel in two, within a few hours, using their overwhelming Arab armored tank forces. If Israel negotiates the surrender of the military control of the West Bank to Arafat and the PLO, and allows the creation of a Palestinian state, Israel will not likely survive the coming war with the combined Arab armies. UN Security Resolution 242, the resolution that governs the continuing peace negotiations, guaranteed that Israel would retain "recognized and secure borders." Without that military control of the West Bank, Israel cannot win the next war. To be cotinued...