Saturday, April 28, 2012
Israeli pushback against Buggsy Netanyahu
Responsible Israelis are beginning to speak out against the scarcely sane policy of current PM Buggsy Netanyahu against Iran. Earlier this week it was the head of the armed forces and now a former head of Shin Bet, the Israeli equivalent of the KGB, is doing so.
“I don’t believe in a leadership that makes decisions based on messianic feelings,” said Yuval Diskin, who stepped down last May after six years running the Shin Bet, Israel’s version of the F.B.I..It is good that responsible people are speaking up. Are they doing it soon enough to stop Buggsy?
“I have observed them from up close,” Mr. Diskin said. “I fear very much that these are not the people I’d want at the wheel.” Echoing Meir Dagan, the former head of the Mossad, Israel’s spy agency, Mr. Diskin also said that the government was “misleading the public” about the likely effectiveness of an aerial strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
“A lot of experts have long been saying that one of the results of an Israeli attack on Iran could be a dramatic acceleration of the Iranian nuclear program,” Mr. Diskin said at a community forum in Kfar Saba, a central Israeli city. “What the Iranians prefer to do today slowly and quietly, they would have the legitimacy to do quickly and in a much shorter time.”
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