Ex-chief of staff Ya'alon: Treat Ahmadinejad like Hitler
Says military confrontation with Islamic Republic will be unavoidable if diplomacy fails.
By JPOST.COM STAFFyaalon 224.88(photo credit: Ariel Jerozolimski)
The international community must deal with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as it dealt with Adolf Hitler, former chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Moshe Ya'alon said Sunday.
"We in the West are in the same situation, indecisiveness in the face of a threat that is no less severe than the threat Hitler posed in 1938-39," Ya'alon told Army Radio.
"We can still stop Iran with diplomatic and economic means, but if that doesn't work, a military confrontation will be unavoidable," he said, adding, pessimistically, that "the writing is on the wall" for a military solution.
He went on to describe his successor Dan Halutz's term as "a tragedy."
"You cannot run an army with thought control, it is a sure recipe for failure," he said.
Ya'alon compared the Second Lebanon War to the Yom Kippur War, saying that in both conflicts, the leadership failed.
He also slammed the Kadima primary, saying it was "another proof that in Israel, the media chooses prime ministers."
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