Haaretz reporters Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff write about the political manuveuring within Israel over a potential attack on Iran. They reveal that Meir Dagan, the former Mossad chief, proclaims that Iran will not have a nuclear weapon till 2014-15 at the earliest, and that in the meantime it hasn’t even definitively decided to make one.
They add that the senior ministerial committee that must approve such an attack is evenly split down the middle with Bibi, Barak, and Lieberman and one other in favor and four others opposed. All the current military-intelligence chiefs oppose an attack, but as they are new to their positions, they may not yet pack enough clout to stand in the way.
Harel and Issacharoff write about Bibi’s view of the matter:
From Netanyahu’s perspective, whether or not his voters are aware of it, saving the Jewish people from a second Holocaust is the mission for which he was elected.
All of this accords with many other accounts written by other Israeli journalists over the past few weeks. These are times that try men’s (and women’s) souls. H/t to Eyal Clyne.
In comments in a discussion of their book, “Dictator’s Handbook,” Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith placed Israel in the first position in a list of the NEXT states to overthrow their ruling regime. http://www.c-spanvideo.org/brucebuenodemesquita
Does that mean that within the next few months, the world will witness the spectacle of Bibi’s corpse being dragged through the streets of Tel Aviv by mercenaries supplied by CST?
I’d be satisfied sending him home to his Herzliya villa. He’s not Qaddafi, just a tin pot dictator masquerading as the leader of a so-called democracy.
can you really argue that Bibi does not have innocent blood on his hands? Should that be rewarded with a life in comfortable retirement? He should spend the rest of his life in prison, at very least.
Well, barring a life in prison, I’d be satisfied if he went home & never showed his urgly mug in Israeli politics again. And if we put him in jail for life we’d have to do the same for half Israel’s politicians & generals. I know some would find that a welcome outcome but…