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It\’s not every day that Israel\’s No. 1 soldier expresses doubts about the country\’s long-term survival. But that was part of a bleak message from Lt. Gen. Moshe Ya\’alon that has shaken the country\’s political establishment.
In a wide-reaching, early June interview in the daily newspaper, Ha\’aretz, the retiring Israeli army chief of staff pulled no punches. He put key existential issues on the table, questioned the wisdom of Israel\’s planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank, debunked the notion of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and said it could lead to a \”situation in which there will be no Israel here in the end.\”
Noam Zissman, 21, a convoy commander from Ra\’anana, and Moran Kalinsky, 20, a deputy company commander from Holon, sit in their Israeli officers\’ uniforms at Johnny Rockets on Melrose. They have just arrived in Los Angeles after more than a week of nonstop travel across the U.S., and they won\’t even have time to order a plate of fries before they have to rush across town.
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