Israel wants walk...not just talk

Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Benny Gantz warned Monday that Israel must consider actions, not declarations, when assessing the conflicts in the Middle East. “In an area characterized by so much uncertainty, we must be sure that we are conducting ourselves in light of actions, not just declarations," Gantz said. "In other words, what counts is action, not just fancy words. This is the nature of the situation with regard to the end of the [Bashar] Assad period [in Syria] and with regard to the possibility that Iran will halt its nuclear development program.” The chief of staff devoted much of his lecture to the attempts to assess the nature of the next war and to the threats the Israel Defense Forces will have to deal with in 2025. “The enemy’s capabilities are just around the corner,” he noted. “These organizations [i.e., the terrorist groups and the global jihad movement] have capabilities that many states do not have. Hezbollah has a capacity that many states do not have – in terms of scope, power, quality and accuracy.”
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 There is a lot of suspicion and even paranoia about some secret deal between Iran and America,” said Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi journalist who is close to the royal family. “My concern is that the Americans will accept Iran as it is — so that the Iranians can continue their old policies of expansionism and aggression.” Saudi Arabia and the other Sunni-dominated gulf countries share a concern about a shift in the balance of power toward Iran’s Shiite-led government and its allies. For Israel, Iran remains the sponsor of global terrorism and of the Lebanese militia Hezbollah and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, both avowed enemies of Israel’s existence. “They can change the regime, but one thing won’t change and that is the hostility against Israel,” warned Uzi Rabi, chairman of a Middle East studies center at Tel Aviv University. “Part of the plan is to drive a wedge between Americans and Europeans and Israel. I hate to say it, but what the Iranians managed to do is to change the whole game.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/30/world/middleeast/israel-and-others-in-mideast-view-overtures-of-us-and-iran-with-suspicion.html?pagewanted=all