1948 y ss - Guerras con los árabes
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"Israel has managed to maintain its technological advantage over its enemies. Israel has survived since 1948 despite our enemies' unmitigated desire to destroy it because it has continuously adapted its tactical advantages to stay one step ahead of them.
It is this adaptive capability that has allowed Israel to win a series of one-off battles that have allowed it to survive.
But again, none of these one-off battles were strategic game-changers. None of them have fundamentally changed the strategic realities of the region. This is the case because they have neither impacted Israel enemies' strategic aspiration to destroy it, nor have they mitigated Israel's strategic vulnerabilities.
It is the unchanging nature of these vulnerabilities since the dawn of modern Zionism that gives hope to Israel foes that they may one day win and should therefore keep fighting.
Israel has two basic strategic vulnerabilities: the first is Israel's geographic minuteness, which attracts invaders; the second is Israel's political weakness both at home and abroad, which make it impossible to fight long wars.
Attentive to these vulnerabilities, David Ben-Gurion asserted that Israel's military doctrine is the twofold goal to fight wars on its enemies' territory and to end them as swiftly and as decisively as possible. This doctrine remains the only realistic option today, even if Stuxnet is in Israel arsenal."
Cicatrices de guerra, heridas de paz, de Shlomo Ben-Ami (2006) - Buen libro en español para conocer la evolución de las negociaciones israelo-palestinas... y para muchas otras cosas más.
Ben-Ami, israelí, hombre de izquierdas, diplomático, historiador ex embajador y ex ministro de Seguridad Pública y de Asuntos Exteriores israelí durante el gobierno de Ehud-Barak realiza en esta obra un pormenorizado análisis de su visión, como testigo de excepción, del conflicto palestino-israelí.
Para la elaboración del libro, Ben-Ami se apoya en su diario personal, en el que reflejó innumerables detalles (algunos de ellos todavía secretos) de la durísima negociación que, en 1991, culminó en la Conferencia de Paz de Madrid, cuando por primera vez en mucho tiempo se rozó la posibilidad de un acuerdo entre israelíes y palestinos.
Lo que Barak y Ben-Ami proponen aceptar en el año 2000 en Camp David es visto por no pocos en Israel no ya como el límite máximo de lo que Israel puede conceder, si no como un simple traición que colocaría a Israel en una situación indefendible.
Una cronología del conflicto Árabo-Israelí
The Root of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Classic Islamic View of Jews (by Hagai Mazuz, July 28, 2010)
GUERRAS
1956 - Guerra del Sinaí
1967 - Guerra de los Seis Días
1973 - Guerra del Yom Kipur
Documentos selectos relevantes
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