On this particular news item, there have been quite a few misreports, errors & fallacies that have systematically been re-delivered throughout the internet
blogosphere, without the appropriate fact-checking .
Apparently, as is want to occur with translations of translations, items of consequence are often copied down either in the wrong tense, frame of reference or placement in the subsequent text . This is especially true when
reporting & translating from a verbal source, such as in this case .

Anyway, here are the particulars: 1) the military historian’s name is actually Martin van Creveld . He was formerly a professor at the Hebrew University & has lectured or taught at many strategic study centers throughout the West, including the US Naval War College .

2) the radio station reported as ’seventh hebrew’ would actually in fact be Arutz 7, a hebrew-only station . My own hebrew being extremely poor to say the least, i was not able to ascertain whether or not Mr. van Creveld had recently given an interview on it or not, but if you know of anyone who can read hebrew fairly well, here is their website, & a search could be conducted if one wanted to :
http://www.inn.co.il

3) judging from the text itself, it would appear however that this was not a recent interview & that this information was simply a rehash of a 2003 article that
appeared in The Guardian (UK) :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/sep/21/israelandthepalestinians.bookextracts
What would make this conclusion all the more obvious is that early reports on this story on the internet actually referred to the PM as Sharon, which of course hasn’t been the case since the end of ‘05 .

4) van Creveld himself, in other words, shouldn’t himself be made the bad guy ( not that you were implying so, but other stories out there were ). He was simply stating the inherent tendencies & strategic mind-think within the
upper echelon of the israeli military .
(or at least it was in 2003, & presumably still is ). And he, if anyone, should know .

Now the upshot of all this in terms of what was actually SAID & why, would perhaps be quite a bit more ominous than the recent (&very poor) misreporting suggested . At the time, in ‘03, few media channels, at least major ones, really picked up the story . The most appalling consideration in my opinion, is that this isn’t simply one solitary military nut-case babbling away nonsensically,
but would in fact appear to actually BE the de-facto state
ideology .
And to this point, EVERYONE, needs to wake up & start rethinking why the hell we should continue to support this .
[ In the last few years, the US has given more military aid, over ten-times as much in fact, to Israel as opposed to NATO ]