Claiming that he does “not believe the Arabs are genuine in their peace-seeking, “Prof. Yuval Ne’eman, former president of Tel Aviv University, predicted that the Arabs will wage war against Israel within 3-4 years regardless of whether a peace treaty is signed.
Ne’eman, a prominent physicist and former chief of army intelligence, offered his views in an interview published today in Ya’ad, a publication of the National Working and Student Youth. “The Arabs, including Egypt, will start a war against us within three to four years, as they are well equipped with the best of American weaponry, whether there will be a signed peace agreement with them or not,” he said. He criticized both the previous Labor governments and the present Likud-led regime. Israel was an American satellite under the Labor government and continues to be so under the Likud government did.”
According to Ne’eman, any withdrawal by Israel from Sinai, the Golan Heights or the West Bank within the next three years would only increase the chances of an Arab attack on Israel. He said Premier Menachem Begin’s offer of self rule to the West Bank Arabs “is nothing but a time bomb that the Israeli government is planting against Israel.”
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