CNN has published a new video interview with Ehud Barak about the Eilat terror attacks. In it, Barak contradicts himself and previous Israeli statements about the attack and its authors. Barak’s first lie is the claim:
“We killed most of the operators of this terrorist attack. We killed the people who launched them from Gaza…Most of the people who executed the operation were killed within 30 minutes. “
Actually, Israel killed a few of the terrorists, Egypt killed another three, but the remainder of the 15-20 which Israel estimates took part, escaped back across the border. And Israel certainly didn’t kill most in the first 30 minutes because the attack came in two phases six hours apart. Some were killed in the initial phase and others in the later one.
The interviewer asks Barak to respond to the denials of responsibility from Hamas and the Popular Resistance Committee. Instead of affirming Israel’s claim that they were responsible, Barak bizarrely asks CNN’s Jerusalem bureau chief:
Do you believe them?
Excuse me? That’s not what the reporter asked. Throwing the question back in the interviewer’s face is a method of diverting the debate when you don’t want to answer. It’s like the old non-denial denial. Later in the interview Barak contradicts his earlier statement that the attackers were from Gaza:
The event took place 150 miles from Gaza in the Sinai desert. Probably some Bedouins with Egyptian citizenship participated. I don’t know for sure.
When asked whether Israel would present proof that the PRC was involved, Barak shrugged his shoulders in that classic Israeli expression of disdain and launched this ‘flyer:’
We have no doubt. But we cannot bring it to the public so that we can intercept the future squads before the come to Israel or kill them immediately afterwards. If we shared the information with everyone, they would be careful enough not to fall into our crossfire [he means, “crosshairs”].
This only marginally better than Avital Leibowitz’s performance during her interview with Lia Tarachansky in which she claimed the IDF knew the terrorists were from Gaza because “they used Kalashnikovs.”
If you think that anyone would conduct intelligence matters in the public space – such as reveling exactly what type of evidence Israel has, and exposing the source by doing so – then you live at a place located between La La land and Shangrila.
This is not a reality show.
Intelligence agencies reveal evidence virtually every day including Israeli intelligence. When it’s in their interests to do so they do, when it’s not they don’t. In this case, it’s not in Israel’s interest because it would expose the nature of its lies about the tragedy.
Yehh you mean like the CIA reveled how they got Osama ?
and you know its lies because ? G-d reveled himself to you in your dream ?
The fact that you say its a lie is meaningless.
Funny you should mention that. In a democracy, when the nation’s intelligence agency refuses to release such proof then the people refuse to believe what the government tells them. Obama’s folks told everyone that Bin Laden resisted & was killed. We know since they refused to support their claim that it was very likely false. Just as we know because the IDF refuses to release the bodies or any info on those it killed that it is similarly lying.
The fact that you say virtually anything is meaningless.
Going by your logic, Richard, it is safe to assume that Bin-Laden wasn’t killed at all. There have been no proof presented to support such a claim. Furthermore, I have yet to see convincing proof that Bin-Laden was directly behind 9/11. The government must be lying and it was an inside job.
Does this sound crazy? Absolutely. But this is what you’re doing. You took a story where 8 Israelis were murdered, just for being Jews, and you managed somehow to spin it back against Israel – screaming conspiracy. What a biased treatment.
@Izik
“8 Israelis were murdered, just for being Jews…”
What an asinine comment. Are you actually claiming the attack was on basis of anti-Semitism?
Actually, if you wish to continue along this line of reasoning one of the eight was actually “murdered” by friendly fire. Or perhaps you’d like to amend yr claim?