Brig.-Gen. (res.) Dr. Aryeh Eldad has been saying for months that the only solution to the present situation is an all-out war. He elaborated on this point for Arutz-7 today:
\"How exactly this war will take place, whether it will be with tanks or planes, or what the exact missions will be, will have to be decided at the proper echelons... But the goals of the war have to be clear, and one of these must be defined as ensuring that no other Arab political entity will be established west of the Jordan - and that there must be many less Arabs west of the Jordan after the war. If this is not clear, then those who say that \'there\'s no purpose in fighting since in any event after it\'s over we\'ll have to sit down and talk\' are right... It\'s true that there could be a high price of casualties, as in any war, but the longer we push this off, the higher will be the price. The Arabs have a clear strategy of threatening our very existence, in that they will block our reservists from getting to bases and preventing the army from defending its citizens. We must pay the price now, so that it will not be ten times higher later.\"
Eldad said that it must be made perfectly clear to the Arabs that if they drag us into an all-out war, the price for them will be that at the end of the war, there will be many less Arabs on this side of the Jordan River… We must see to the existential needs of the People of Israel; we have no other choice.\" Dr. Eldad, who served as the IDF\'s Chief Medical Officer until his retirement last year, is the son of the late Prof. Yisrael Eldad, who was one of the three leaders of the Lechi Underground which fought against the British for Israel\'s independence in the 1940\'s. The elder Eldad engaged in writing and speaking on behalf of Revisionist Zionist ideology, and calling for the renewal of the third Jewish Commonwealth and the liberation of the entirety of the Land of Israel.