A few days ago Amir Oren wrote a persuasive essay arguing that Israeli intelligence's portrayal of Meir Ettinger, currently under administrative detention and suspected of masterminded several terror attacks, as a threat to the State is vastly overstated. He asserted that this claim was a mask to conceal the State's unwillingness to address the broader … [Read more...]
Meir Dagan Defends Diskin’s Attack on Netanyahu at–of All Places–Jerusalem Post Conference
The Jerusalem Post held its endlessly-flacked pro-Israel conference in New York, this weekend, and attendees got much more than they bargained for. A junior cabinet member who no one's ever heard of, took it upon himself to dress down one of Israel's most decorated IDF officers and security officials, Meir Dagan. The latter, not a man to suffer fools … [Read more...]
Former Shin Bet Chief on Jewish Terror, Deteriorating Relations with Israeli Palestinians, Delusions Regarding Israeli Attack on Iran
I've noticed a rather remarkable phenomenon among Israeli intelligence chiefs and prime ministers. While in office they speak loads of rubbish. But once they leave, a cloud lifts and their minds clear and they become lucid, incisive, even brilliant. But of course, the problem is that they could've only benefited the nation from those brilliant insights they … [Read more...]
Former Shin Bet Chief, Diskin Loses Confidence in Netanyahu, Barak Leadership
Former Shin Bet director Yuval Diskin told an Israeli audience that he had no confidence in the leadership of Bibi Netanyahu or Ehud Barak: "My major problem is that I have no faith in the current leadership, which must lead us into an event on the scale of war with Iran or regional war," Diskin told the "Majdi Forum," a group of local residents that meets … [Read more...]
