{"id":3974,"date":"2012-03-02T18:11:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T18:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harissa.com\/news-wp\/?p=3974"},"modified":"2012-03-02T18:11:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T18:11:41","slug":"la-derniere-chance-disrael-pour-bombarder-liran-amos-yadlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harissa.com\/news-wp\/la-derniere-chance-disrael-pour-bombarder-liran-amos-yadlin\/","title":{"rendered":"La derni\u00e8re chance d\u2019Isra\u00ebl pour bombarder l\u2019Iran ! \u2013 Amos Yadlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLa derni&egrave;re chance d&rsquo;Isra&euml;l pour bombarder l&rsquo;Iran ! &ndash; Amos Yadlin<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right; font-size: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n\t&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"fr\"><span title=\"ON July 7, 1981, I was one of eight Israeli fighter pilots who bombed the Iraqi nuclear reactor at Osirak.\">Le 7 Juillet 1981, j&rsquo;&eacute;tais l&rsquo;un des huit pilotes de chasse isra&eacute;liens qui a bombard&eacute; le r&eacute;acteur nucl&eacute;aire irakien d&rsquo;Osirak. <\/span><span title=\"As we sat in the briefing room listening to the army chief of staff, Rafael Eitan, before starting our planes' engines, I recalled a conversation a week earlier when he'd asked us to voice any concerns about our mission.\">Alors que nous &eacute;tions assis dans la salle de briefing pour &eacute;couter le chef d&rsquo;&eacute;tat-major, Rafael Eitan, avant le d&eacute;marrage des moteurs de nos avions &raquo;, je me suis souvenu d&rsquo;une conversation, datant d&rsquo;une semaine auparavant, quand il nous avait invit&eacute; &agrave; exprimer nos inqui&eacute;tudes au sujet de notre mission.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span title=\"We told him about the risks we foresaw: running out of fuel, Iraqi retaliation, how a strike could harm our relationship with America, and the limited impact a successful mission might have \u2014 perhaps delaying Iraq's nuclear quest by only a few years.\">Nous lui avions confi&eacute; nos pens&eacute;es et les risques que nous pensions possibles : &ecirc;tre &agrave; court de carburant, des repr&eacute;sailles irakienne, comment une frappe pourrait nuire &agrave; notre relation avec l&rsquo;Am&eacute;rique, et l&rsquo;impact limit&eacute; d&rsquo;une mission r&eacute;ussie (peut-&ecirc;tre retarder de quelques ann&eacute;es le programme, mais apr&egrave;s ?). A &eacute;couter les <\/span><span title=\"Listening to today's debates about Iran, we hear the same arguments and face the same difficulties, even though we understand it is not 1981.\">d&eacute;bats d&rsquo;aujourd&rsquo;hui sur l&rsquo;Iran, nous entendons les m&ecirc;mes arguments et faisons face aux m&ecirc;mes difficult&eacute;s, m&ecirc;me si nous comprenons que nous ne sommes pas en 1981.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span title=\"Shortly after we destroyed Osirak, the Israeli defense attach\u00e9 in Washington was called into the Pentagon.\">Peu de temps apr&egrave;s avoir d&eacute;truit Osirak, l&rsquo;attach&eacute; militaire isra&eacute;lien &agrave; Washington a &eacute;t&eacute; appel&eacute; au Pentagone. <\/span><span title=\"He was expecting a rebuke.\">Il s&rsquo;attendait &agrave; une r&eacute;primande. <\/span><span title=\"Instead, he was faced with a single question: How did you do it?\">Au lieu de cela, il a &eacute;t&eacute; confront&eacute; &agrave; une seule question: Comment avez-vous fait cela ? <\/span><span title=\"The United States military had assumed that the F-16 aircraft they had provided to Israel had neither the range nor the ordnance to attack Iraq successfully.\">L&rsquo;arm&eacute;e am&eacute;ricaine avait suppos&eacute; que l&rsquo;avion F-16 qu&rsquo;elle avait vendue &agrave; Isra&euml;l n&rsquo;avait ni l&rsquo;envergure, ni les munitions pour attaquer l&rsquo;Irak avec succ&egrave;s. <\/span><span title=\"The mistake then, as now, was to underestimate Israel's military ingenuity.\">L&rsquo;erreur alors, comme aujourd&rsquo;hui, &eacute;tait de sous-estimer l&rsquo;ing&eacute;niosit&eacute; militaire d&rsquo;Isra&euml;l.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span title=\"We had simply maximized fuel efficiency and used experienced pilots, trained specifically for this mission.\">Nous avions tout simplement maximis&eacute; l&rsquo;efficacit&eacute; &eacute;nerg&eacute;tique de nos avions et seuls des pilotes exp&eacute;riment&eacute;s, form&eacute;s sp&eacute;cialement pour cette mission, pouvaient y prendre part. En chemin vers l&rsquo;Irak, nous avions alors &eacute;ject&eacute; nos r&eacute;servoirs externes, puis, nous avons attaqu&eacute; le r&eacute;acteur avec <\/span><span title=\"We ejected our external fuel tanks en route to Iraq and then attacked the reactor with pinpoint accuracy from so close and such a low altitude that our unguided bombs were as accurate and effective as precision-guided munitions.\">une extr&ecirc;me pr&eacute;cision, de si pr&egrave;s et &agrave; si basse altitude que nos bombes non guid&eacute;es &eacute;taient aussi pr&eacute;cises et efficaces que les munitions guid&eacute;es d&rsquo;aujourd&rsquo;hui.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span title=\"Today, Israel sees the prospect of a nuclear Iran that calls for our annihilation as an existential threat.\">De nos jours, Isra&euml;l voit la perspective d&rsquo;un Iran nucl&eacute;aire qui appelle &agrave; notre an&eacute;antissement comme une menace existentielle. <\/span><span title=\"An Israeli strike against Iran would be a last resort, if all else failed to persuade Iran to abandon its nuclear weapons program.\">Une frappe isra&eacute;lienne contre l&rsquo;Iran serait un dernier recours, si tout le reste a &eacute;chou&eacute; avant. <\/span><span title=\"That moment of decision will occur when Iran is on the verge of shielding its nuclear facilities from a successful attack \u2014 what Israel's leaders have called the \u201czone of immunity.\u201d\">Cette prise de d&eacute;cision aura lieu lorsque l&rsquo;Iran sera sur le point de r&eacute;ussir le blindage de ses installations, ce que les dirigeants isra&eacute;liens appellent &laquo; la zone d&rsquo;immunit&eacute; &raquo;. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"fr\"><span title=\"Some experts oppose an attack because they claim that even a successful strike would, at best, delay Iran's nuclear program for only a short time.\">Certains experts s&rsquo;opposent &agrave; une attaque parce qu&rsquo;ils pr&eacute;tendent que m&ecirc;me une attaque pr&eacute;cise, au mieux, retarderait le programme nucl&eacute;aire de l&rsquo;Iran que pour un court laps de temps. <\/span><span title=\"But their analysis is faulty.\">Mais leur analyses sont fausses. <\/span><span title=\"Today, almost any industrialized country can produce a nuclear weapon in four to five years \u2014 hence any successful strike would achieve a delay of only a few years.\">Aujourd&rsquo;hui, presque tous les pays industrialis&eacute;s peuvent produire une arme nucl&eacute;aire en quatre &agrave; cinq ans. <\/span><span title=\"What matters more is the campaign after the attack.\">Ce qui importe davantage est la campagne apr&egrave;s l&rsquo;attaque. <\/span><span title=\"When we were briefed before the Osirak raid, we were told that a successful mission would delay the Iraqi nuclear program for only three to five years.\">Lorsque nous avons &eacute;t&eacute; inform&eacute;s avant le raid d&rsquo;Osirak, on nous a dit qu&rsquo;une mission r&eacute;ussie serait de retarder le programme nucl&eacute;aire irakien pour seulement trois &agrave; cinq ans. <\/span><span title=\"But history told a different story.\">Mais l&rsquo;histoire a racont&eacute; une histoire diff&eacute;rente.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span title=\"After the Osirak attack and the destruction of the Syrian reactor in 2007, the Iraqi and Syrian nuclear programs were never fully resumed.\">Apr&egrave;s l&rsquo;attaque d&rsquo;Osirak et la destruction du r&eacute;acteur syrien en 2007, les programmes nucl&eacute;aires irakiens et syriens n&rsquo;ont jamais enti&egrave;rement repris. <\/span><span title=\"This could be the outcome in Iran, too, if military action is followed by tough sanctions, stricter international inspections and an embargo on the sale of nuclear components to Tehran.\">Ce pourrait &ecirc;tre aussi le r&eacute;sultat en Iran, si l&rsquo;action militaire est suivie par des sanctions s&eacute;v&egrave;res, des inspections internationales strictes et un embargo sur la vente de composants nucl&eacute;aires &agrave; T&eacute;h&eacute;ran. <\/span><span title=\"Iran, like Iraq and Syria before it, will have to recognize that the precedent for military action has been set, and can be repeated.\">L&rsquo;Iran, comme l&rsquo;Irak et la Syrie avant elle, devra comprendre qu&rsquo;une action militaire pourrait &ecirc;tre r&eacute;p&eacute;t&eacute;e si besoin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"fr\"><span title=\"Others claim that an attack on the Iranian nuclear program would destabilize the region.\">D&rsquo;autres pr&eacute;tendent que l&rsquo;attaque sur le programme nucl&eacute;aire iranien d&eacute;stabiliserait la r&eacute;gion. <\/span><span title=\"But a nuclear Iran could lead to far worse: a regional nuclear arms race without a red phone to defuse an escalating crisis, Iranian aggression in the Persian Gulf, more confident Iranian surrogates like Hezbollah and the threat of nuclear materials' being transferred to terrorist organizations\">Mais un Iran nucl&eacute;aire pourrait conduire &agrave; bien pire: une course r&eacute;gionale aux armements nucl&eacute;aires sans un t&eacute;l&eacute;phone rouge pour d&eacute;samorcer une escalade de crise, une agression iranienne sur le Golfe Arabique, des substituts iraniens comme le Hezbollah toujours plus confiants et une menace de transferts des mati&egrave;res nucl&eacute;aires vers des organisations terroristes.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"fr\"><span title=\"Ensuring that Iran does not go nuclear is the best guarantee for long-term regional stability.\">Veiller &agrave; ce que l&rsquo;Iran n&rsquo;obtienne pas la bombe est la meilleure garantie, &agrave; long terme, de la stabilit&eacute; r&eacute;gionale. <\/span><span title=\"A nonnuclear Iran would be infinitely easier to contain than an Iran with nuclear weapons.\">Un Iran non nucl&eacute;aire serait infiniment plus facile &agrave; contenir qu&rsquo;un Iran dot&eacute; d&rsquo;armes nucl&eacute;aires. <\/span><span title=\"President Obama has said America will \u201cuse all elements of American power to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.\u201d Israel takes him at his word.\">Le pr&eacute;sident Obama a dit que l&rsquo;Am&eacute;rique &laquo;utilisera tous les &eacute;l&eacute;ments de la puissance am&eacute;ricaine pour emp&ecirc;cher l&rsquo;Iran de d&eacute;velopper une arme nucl&eacute;aire. &raquo; Isra&euml;l le prend au mot.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span title=\"The problem, however, is one of time.\">Le probl&egrave;me, cependant, est le temps. <\/span><span title=\"Israel doesn't have the safety of distance, nor do we have the United States Air Force's advanced fleet of bombers and fighters.\">Isra&euml;l n&rsquo;a pas la s&eacute;curit&eacute; de la distance, de m&ecirc;me que nous n&rsquo;avons pas l&rsquo;Air Force Am&eacute;ricaine et ses chasseurs. <\/span><span title=\"America could carry out an extensive air campaign using stealth technology and huge amounts of ammunition, dropping enormous payloads that are capable of hitting targets and penetrating to depths far beyond what Israel's arsenal can achieve.\">L&rsquo;Am&eacute;rique pourrait proc&eacute;der &agrave; une campagne a&eacute;rienne de grande envergure, avec sa technologie furtive et d&rsquo;&eacute;normes quantit&eacute;s de munitions, sans probl&egrave;me. L&rsquo;Am&eacute;rique pourrait faire tout ce qu&rsquo;Isra&euml;l ne peut pas faire. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"fr\"><span title=\"This gives America more time than Israel in determining when the moment of decision has finally been reached.\">Cela donne aux Etats-Unis le temps qu&rsquo;Isra&euml;l n&rsquo;a pas pour d&eacute;terminer le moment de la d&eacute;cision &agrave; prendre&hellip; Et &agrave; mesure que ce temps se rapproche, les horaires diff&eacute;rentes deviennent une source de tension entre les deux pays.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"fr\"><span title=\"And as that moment draws closer, differing timetables are becoming a source of tension.\">L<\/span><span title=\"On Monday, Mr. Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel are to meet in Washington.\">undi, Obama et le Premier ministre Benjamin Netanyahu doivent se r&eacute;unir &agrave; Washington. <\/span><span title=\"Of all their encounters, this could be the most critical.\">De toutes leurs rencontres, ce pourrait &ecirc;tre la plus critique. <\/span><span title=\"Asking Israel's leaders to abide by America's timetable, and hence allowing Israel's window of opportunity to be closed, is to make Washington a de facto proxy for Israel's security \u2014 a tremendous leap of faith for Israelis faced with a looming Iranian bomb.\">En demandant aux dirigeants d&rsquo;Isra&euml;l de se conformer au calendrier de l&rsquo;Am&eacute;rique, et par cons&eacute;quent d&rsquo;emp&ecirc;cher Isra&euml;l de se d&eacute;fendre, Obama n&rsquo;agirait pas pour la s&eacute;curit&eacute; r&eacute;gionale. <\/span><br title=\"Asking Israel's leaders to abide by America's timetable, and hence allowing Israel's window of opportunity to be closed, is to make Washington a de facto proxy for Israel's security \u2014 a tremendous leap of faith for Israelis faced with a looming Iranian bomb.\" \/><br \/>\n\t<br \/>\n\t<span title=\"Mr. Obama will therefore have to shift the Israeli defense establishment's thinking from a focus on the \u201czone of immunity\u201d to a \u201czone of trust.\u201d What is needed is an ironclad American assurance that if Israel refrains from acting in its own window of\">Obama devra donc non plus penser &agrave; la &laquo; zone d&rsquo;immunit&eacute; &raquo; mais &agrave; la &laquo; zone de confiance. &raquo; Ce qui est n&eacute;cessaire, c&rsquo;est d&rsquo;avoir l&rsquo;assurance que si Isra&euml;l s&rsquo;abstient d&rsquo;agir dans sa propre fen&ecirc;tre de tir, <\/span><span title=\"opportunity \u2014 and all other options have failed to halt Tehran's nuclear quest \u2014 Washington will act to prevent a nuclear Iran while it is still within its power to do so.\">Washington agira pour emp&ecirc;cher un Iran nucl&eacute;aire alors qu&rsquo;il en a encore le pouvoir.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"fr\"><span title=\"I hope Mr. Obama will make this clear.\">J&rsquo;esp&egrave;re qu&rsquo;Obama permettra de clarifier cela. <\/span><span title=\"If he does not, Israeli leaders may well choose to act while they still can.\">S&rsquo;il ne le fait pas, les dirigeants isra&eacute;liens peuvent ainsi choisir d&rsquo;agir alors qu&rsquo;il est encore temps. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\t<span id=\"result_box\" lang=\"fr\"><em><strong><span title=\"Amos Yadlin, a former chief of Israeli military intelligence, is the director of Israel's Institute for National Security Studies.\">Par<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/01\/opinion\/israels-last-chance-to-strike-iran.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\"> Amos Yadlin<\/a><br \/>\n\tAmos Yadlin est l&rsquo;ancien chef du renseignement militaire isra&eacute;lien, est le directeur de l&rsquo;Institut d&rsquo;Isra&euml;l pour les &eacute;tudes de s&eacute;curit&eacute; nationale.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; La derni&egrave;re chance d&rsquo;Isra&euml;l pour bombarder l&rsquo;Iran ! &ndash; Amos Yadlin &nbsp; Le 7 Juillet 1981, j&rsquo;&eacute;tais l&rsquo;un des huit pilotes de chasse isra&eacute;liens qui a bombard&eacute; le r&eacute;acteur nucl&eacute;aire irakien d&rsquo;Osirak. Alors que nous &eacute;tions assis dans la salle de briefing pour &eacute;couter le chef d&rsquo;&eacute;tat-major, Rafael Eitan, avant le d&eacute;marrage des moteurs&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,11,1,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran","category-moyen-orient","category-uncategorized","category-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harissa.com\/news-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harissa.com\/news-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harissa.com\/news-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harissa.com\/news-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harissa.com\/news-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harissa.com\/news-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harissa.com\/news-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harissa.com\/news-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harissa.com\/news-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harissa.com\/news-wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}