Mark Langfan has warned that US Secretary of State John Kerrys security arrangement proposals for Israel are an updated version of the 1967 Allon Plan, and place the country in strategic danger. In the arrangements Kerry has reportedly proposed in ongoing peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), Israe...l would for 10 years partially retain the 15 kilometer (9 mile) wide strip of the Jordan Valley as a security zone. The arrangements have been reportedly rejected by both sides; PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas opposed the plans for allowing Jews to remain in the area. Kerrys pressure on the PA to accept the plans by postponing terrorist prisoner releases led a senior PLO official to say Kerrys proposals for the Jordan Valley will lead to total failure, after which Kerry announced he would return to Israel on Wednesday. Langfan, who heads Americans For a Safe Israel (AFSI), commented that Kerrys proposed arrangements follow the security plan drawn up by General Yigal Allon following the Six Day War. The AFSI Chairman warned that the arrangement threatens to become a Philadelphi Corridor 2, referring to the failed security strip, which was tenuously kept by Israel between Gaza and Egypt after the disastrous Disengagement from Gaza in 2005. The corridor was later entirely abandoned under fire from Gaza-based terrorists. Kerrys arrangements are a death-trap security plan for Israel, stressed Langfan, adding people just dont understand the ‘Jordan Valley’ is the area of Judea and Samaria thats further away from Pre-1967 Israel, and with Western Samaria Highlands in Palestinian hands, the zone is essentially disconnected from Pre-1967 Israel. In Langfans words, a modern day Allon Plan of the type proposed by Kerry is just a false wrapping for Auschwitz 2.0 Borders. The residual Israeli-occupied portion of the Jordan Valley will be surrounded, virtually impossible to access, and attacked from both the east and the west, and it will be just as militarily unsustainable as was Gazas Philadelphi Corridor. Its a prescription for a Holocaust 2.0. Recently Major General Nitzan Alon, the Head of the IDFs Central Command, said the US has agreed to an Israeli security presence in the Jordan Valley. It should be noted that Kerrys Jordan Valley arrangements would keep an IDF presence in the region. In 1967, (General Yigal) Allon couldnt imagine, less plan for 1) protecting Israels water resources flowing westward from Western Samaria; 2) air-space; 3) Palestinian terroristic use of Katyusha rockets from the ‘West Bank’ Terror state into Tel Aviv; or 4) massive influx of additional Palestinians into the new PA State. So for Israel, its a literal dead-end plan, remarked Langfan
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 08:50:05 +0000
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