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Israel's clever reverse tactics....
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israel's task is to make it seem that its actions are all responses to palestinian violence. In this way it hides its war crimes.
Moshe Dayan actually mentions this in connection with the golan heights and israel aggression:
Look, it's possible to talk in terms of 'the Syrians are bastards, you have to get them, and this is the right time,' and other such talk, but that is not policy,' Dayan told Tal in 1976. 'You don't strike at the enemy because he is a bastard, but because he threatens you. And the Syrians, on the fourth day of the war, were not a threat to us.' According to the published notes, Tal began to remonstrate, 'But they were sitting on the Golan Heights, and ....'Dayan interrupted: 'Never mind that. After all, I know how at least 80 percent of the clashes there started. In my opinion, more than 80 percent, but let's talk about 80 percent. It went this way: We would send a tractor to plow some area where it wasn't possible to do anything, in the demilitarized area, and knew in advance that the Syrians would start to shoot. If they didn't shoot, we would tell the tractor to advance farther, until in the end the Syrians would get annoyed and shoot. And then we would use artillery and later the air force also, and that's how it was.'
('General's Words Shed a New Light on the Golan,' New York Times, May 11, 1997)
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