Israel’s Security Elite don’t Want Peace | Global Research

Israel’s Security Elite don’t Want Peace | Global Research

Hidden away both
behind the Haaretz paywall and in its business pages is one of the most
astute articles I’ve seen in the Israeli media. It tells how Israel
(more so even than other western states) has been taken over by a
security elite – what is termed here a “security network” – that has no
interest in peace, though it increasingly likes an endless peace
process. War and security are good for business, as far as this elite is
concerned.

It is more than
possible, as the article notes, that the Palestinian leadership is part
of this security network. An academic quoted observes: “I think that in
both elites, the Israeli and Palestinian, some want this perpetual state
of a nation-waiting-to-be-born, and benefit from it. An established
state means not only grave social problems but also limitations and
constraints on the political leadership.”

The first half of the article is equally interesting but of more
parochial concern regarding what Guy Rolnik, one of Haaretz’s best
writers, calls Israel’s “independent tax militias”, corporations that
have ramped up the cost of living through government-sanctioned cartel
practices.

So people have a chance to read it, I’m appending the second half of the article: