By Ari Yashar, Arutz Sheva Staff
A secret US Joint Chiefs of Staff(USJCoS) Memorandum from 1967 has been uncovered by Arutz Sheva analyst Mark Langfan. Langfan says the report proves that US Secretary of State John Kerry’s current proposed security arrangements are a “military security fraud on Israel and the Jews.”
Kerry is currently in Israel, pushing his proposals for the Jordan Valley which Palestinian Authority (PA) Chief Mahmoud Abbas again rejected on Friday morning. Langfan has revealed in the past that the arrangements are based on the 1967 “Allon Plan,” and are a “death-trap” for Israel.
The newly revealed secret document, dated June 29, 1967 and referenced as “JSCM-373-67,” take Israel’s “defensible” borders as its subject. It was signed by then-Chairman of the USJCoS, US Gen. Earle G. Wheeler.
The memorandum shows the necessity of Israeli control over the high ground of western Samaria.
“From a strictly military point of view…the views of the Joint Chiefs of Staff…(see as necessary Israeli) control of the prominent high ground running north-south” through Judea and Samaria, reads the report. Langfan notes that this region, deemed crucial for defensible Israeli borders, is the very area that is slated to be given to the PA under Kerry’s plan.
Furthermore, the memorandum’s appendix elaborates that Israel at minimum needs a defense line along “Bardala-Tubas-Nablus-Bira-Jerusalem,” which “would give a portion of the (Judean and Samarian) foothills to Israel and avoid interdiction by artillery in the Israeli villages in the lowlands.”
Langfan remarked “in 1967, before shoulder-fired anti-air missiles, before laser-designators, before radar and radio-jammers, before Katyushas from Lebanon and Gaza, before rampant Muslim-on-Muslim use of Sarin-tipped-chemical-Katyushas in Syria, the greatest collection of military professionals in the world concluded Israel’s retention of Western Samaria was a military necessity for Israel.”
However, Langfan points out that a more insidious problem than Kerry’s “fraudulent” security plan exists.
“(The) real problem is that for years, Israel’s entire military establishment has generally signed onto the ‘Jordan Valley Concept’ that wholly contradicts the professional written military conclusion of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff,” reveals Langfan.
Through the Jordan Valley arrangements that have been commonly promoted, Israel would abandon Judea and Samaria to various degrees, keeping a security presence in the Jordan Valley.
Langfan notes the indefensible nature of such an arrangement. He remarks that the 1967 memorandum “prophetically predicted the likely advent of Katyusha rockets from Western Samaria into Israel’s” population centers, referencing a strategic threat that he has warned of in the past.
Langfan called for a a commission of inquiry, such as was conducted after the disastrous 1973 Yom Kippur War, to determine how “such a military hoax could have been perpetrated by the IDF, and successive Israeli-governments.” He further volunteered to “be the first to testify, and name names.”
“Israel should have a ‘commission of inquiry,’ before it suffers a catastrophic irreversible defeat, not after 10’s or 100’s of thousands of Jews are murdered as a result of Israel’s endemic military failures,” warned Langfan.
CuriousAmerican Said:
Wrong!!! The issue is the acceptance and recognition of the Jews and their national rights to the historical land of the Jewish people.
Israel probably would have annexed all of the liberated Jewish territories but since the opposition to any Jewish State of any size in the Land of Israel was and would illicit strong and even violent opposition from both Islam and christianity, The Jews would never be left alone in Peace. The Jewish People and their return to the Land of Israel Is the direct theological challenge to Islam and christianity for if we are right they by definition are wrong.
“Teachings of contempt for Jews and Judaism in certain Christian traditions proved a spawning ground for the evil of the Nazi Holocaust.”
Verses viciously attack the Jewish people (and sometimes Christians), such as:
There is also the well-entrenched Islamic belief that, also during the time of God’s Judgment upon Humankind, Dajjal (the Anti-Christ) will begin to dominate the Earth together with his army of 70,000 Yahud (Jews) until Isa (Jesus) is resurrected and thereafter destroys Dajjal as well as his Jewish minions.
This issue is not the non people called palestinians they are but the invented and convenient weapon both christians and Muslims are now using to weaken and finally destroy the Jewish people and for them the theological abomination called the State of Israel. If the Palestinians did not exist here they would find other means to the same ends as they have all through history. They are not the root cause of our current conflict. Without the support from the Muslim Nations and the christian West they would not exist today.
So then the Word “Palestinians” will never be on Israpundit again!
I and all associated with my movement http://www.4international.me are big fans of Mark Langfan.
In the recent book Israel west of the River the author in chapter one uses the term “Palestinians” and begins to change only in chapter 2. This to me is not at allacceptable. This is a term which we never should use.
I am non Jewish and very left wing but for 30 years I have found it literally impossible to write the Word “Palestinians” and I never do.
So I take issue also with this by Curious American
“The issue is the Palestinians. You know my suggested solution.”
I disagree somewhat also with NormanF above
It is not just the Arabs…it is the Arabs as they intermingle at this particular stage of world history with the phenomenon of world antisemitism
No one should be surprised that lurch Kerry behaved like the lying, backstabbing skunk that he is when he proposed this plan.
The red areas are where the Arabs are. That is the problem. I am not in favor of a TSS.
Rather than arguing about divvying up this or that parcel of land, get down to brass tacks.
The issue is NOT annexing the land, but annexing the land with the Arabs on it.
The issue is not the land, but the Arabs.
If there were no Arabs in Judea and Samaria, Israel would annex it in 5 minutes; and there would be little outcry.
The issue is the Palestinians. You know my suggested solution.
All of this is moot because the Arabs reject peace with Israel.
They’re unwilling to end the conflict and to accede to ANY Israeli military presence in the Jordan Valley.
It doesn’t really matter where the lines are drawn – as Mark Langfan knows, if there is trust, Israel could have troops stationed anywhere in Judea and Samaria and there would be peace.
This prerequisite does not exist. And the Americans are engaged in a fools’ errand.