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Israel Security Establishment Breaks With Bibi on Iran Deal
There’s a deep crack emerging in the veneer of wall-to-wall support offered by Israel’s political leadership to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his war against the Iran nuclear agreement.
The crack has a name you might recognize: the Israeli security establishment. You know — the folks whose job it is to identify and address threats to Israel’s safety. A small but growing group of high-power ex-commanders has been speaking out in media interviews and op-ed essays in the past few days, saying that Netanyahu has got the Iran issue wrong.
Who are these critics?
They include a former chief of military intelligence, Amos Yadlin, who now heads Israel’s main defense think tank; a former chief of arms technology,Yitzhak Ben-Yisrael , who now chairs both The Israel Space Agency and the science ministry’s research and development council; a former chief of military operations,Israel Ziv ; a near-legendary architect of Israeli military intelligence, Dov Tamari ; a former director of the Shin Bet domestic security service, Ami Ayalon , and a former director of the Mossad intelligence agency, Efraim Halevy . And there are others.
Israel Security Establishment Breaks With Bibi on Iran Deal - Opinion Forward.com
A few elaborations and additional points, if I might.
1) It should be highly noted that the Chief of Staff of the IDF, that is the CURRENT (as opposed to "mothballed") Chief of Staff gave a speech to a prestigious international forum not long ago. His topic was: "The Threats to Israel". In his entire speech, in everything he listed as existential threats to Israel, HE DID NOT EVEN MENTION THE WORD "IRAN"! Did I mention that it was the CURRENT Chief of Staff of the IDF who gave the speech?
2) It should also be pointed out that Efraim Halevy was appointed to his position as head of the Mossad BY NETANYAHU! (Mr. Halevy, by the way, came up with the most accurate observation of all: "Netanyahu is a greater threat to Israel than Iran!")
There’s a deep crack emerging in the veneer of wall-to-wall support offered by Israel’s political leadership to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his war against the Iran nuclear agreement.
The crack has a name you might recognize: the Israeli security establishment. You know — the folks whose job it is to identify and address threats to Israel’s safety. A small but growing group of high-power ex-commanders has been speaking out in media interviews and op-ed essays in the past few days, saying that Netanyahu has got the Iran issue wrong.
Who are these critics?
They include a former chief of military intelligence, Amos Yadlin, who now heads Israel’s main defense think tank; a former chief of arms technology,Yitzhak Ben-Yisrael , who now chairs both The Israel Space Agency and the science ministry’s research and development council; a former chief of military operations,Israel Ziv ; a near-legendary architect of Israeli military intelligence, Dov Tamari ; a former director of the Shin Bet domestic security service, Ami Ayalon , and a former director of the Mossad intelligence agency, Efraim Halevy . And there are others.
Israel Security Establishment Breaks With Bibi on Iran Deal - Opinion Forward.com
A few elaborations and additional points, if I might.
1) It should be highly noted that the Chief of Staff of the IDF, that is the CURRENT (as opposed to "mothballed") Chief of Staff gave a speech to a prestigious international forum not long ago. His topic was: "The Threats to Israel". In his entire speech, in everything he listed as existential threats to Israel, HE DID NOT EVEN MENTION THE WORD "IRAN"! Did I mention that it was the CURRENT Chief of Staff of the IDF who gave the speech?
2) It should also be pointed out that Efraim Halevy was appointed to his position as head of the Mossad BY NETANYAHU! (Mr. Halevy, by the way, came up with the most accurate observation of all: "Netanyahu is a greater threat to Israel than Iran!")