(Classified) ON 'SECURITY CONCEPTS'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100110004-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 14, 1998
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 5, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

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NEWS
CPYRGHT P.M.'S NAVON
Anger or accuracy?
the JEWISH OBSERVER really said. It is,
after all, an old-established rule to make
sure of your sources (and to make certain
that your translator knows his job) before
you comment, and before you get un-
?, .,, Page Nine
neces r
valid advice for ministerial commentators
as for the press.
ME, IR AAMIT ON
`SECURITY CONCEPTS'
I HAVE JUST been reading one of the
most lucid and straight-forward accounts
of the "Factors Influencing the Security
Concepts of the State of Israel". This is
the title of a lecture given in Norway by
General Meir A_mii Israel's Chief of
Military Intelligence, and now printed
(in English) by the Norwegian Military
Journal. Amit draws two major conclu-
sions from Israel's security position, one
geographic and the other political. The
geographic lesson for Israel's defence
planners, he says, is that they can never
retreat in the face of an invading enemy
and hope to regain ground later ; they
cannot manoeuvre over large areas, and
they can never retreat absolutely-except
into the sea.
The political problem which affects
Israel's security position is her isolation.
She has no defensive alignment with any-
one, no firm guarantees which would
automatically lead to aid in case Israel
is attacked. She belongs neither to Nato,
Seato nor Cento-and she also has no
connections with the Warsaw Pact or the
non-aligned countries. "We have no such
treaties. We have no allies." Amit sees
no alternative but "that we must depend
only on our own strength. . . . If I am
not for myself, who will be for me?" He
ranges widely and in depth, and he comes
back always to the same conclusion.'
They were all painfully aware of this in
Israel, and that was their great strength.
They would go on building a home for
themselves where they could be "masters
of our own destiny".
WHICH PLANE DO
YOU PREFER ?
HOW DO TRAVELLERS decide by which
line they like to fly to Israel? It is not
easy to say, for there are many calcu-
lations which the more experienced take
into consideration. Thus, last Sunday
morning, you could' leave Lydda for
London within a matter of a few hours
by B.O.A.C., or by El Al, or by B.E.A.,
or by Alitalia ; which should one take
for best travel comfort? In fact, I wish
WHICH? would do an investigation into
the respective merits of these various air
lines servicing the route to Israel.
ARMYS AMIT The least difference, as a rule, is in the t
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