The Times of Israel is reporting that ex-Mossad chief Meir Dagan has accused Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu of:
...having caused Israel “heavy strategic damage on the Iranian issue” by antagonizing the US leadership, and said the premier had brought “intolerable” risk upon the nation by endangering its ties with Washington.
Dagan went on to say:
...“An Israeli prime minister who enters into conflict with an American administration must ask himself what are the risks...The veto umbrella provided by the Americans could vanish, and Israel would promptly find itself facing international sanctions. The risks in this confrontation are intolerable.”
According to the report, in 2010 Dagan refused an order from Netanyahu to prepare for an unprovoked attack on Iran.
But Dagan reportedly retorted that the order, if followed, might lead to a war based on an illegal decision. And then-army chief Gabi Ashkenazi, reportedly declaring that such an attack would be “a strategic mistake,” also warned that the very order to prepare for a strike might set in motion a deterioration into war even if Israel didn’t actually choose to launch one
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Ashkenazi and Dagan reportedly vehemently objected to the order. “You may end up going to war based on an illegal decision,” the former intelligence chief was quoted as saying. “Only the security cabinet is authorized to make such a decision.”
Later, Dagan would say that “the prime minister and the defense minister tried to steal a war – it was as simple as that.”
In other news from Israel, PM Netanyahu's wife Sara is in the headlines.
According to The Guardian, the transcript of an interview with the Prime Minister's wife has been published...and it's a peach:
In the interview in the Jerusalem Post, the educational psychologist describes her husband as a “hero of the free world” and compares disgruntled staff to “scheming” servants in Downton Abbey.
Amid speculation that the 30-minute tape would be released by Monique Ben Melekh, the wife of the former mayor of Sderot, Eli Moyal - who had criticised Netanyahu’s handling of the Gaza war – journalist Ben Caspit released his own transcript of the bizarre conversation.
The prime minister’s wife accuses Ben Melekh and her husband of being jealous of Netanyahu as she brags about his talents and how he is admired and loved.
“Does anyone in the country want anyone else other than Bibi? Huh?! Someone in this entire country?! They admire Binyamin Netanyahu the entire world over!
“[He is] a man [who] took all of the State of Israel upon his shoulders, he sends soldiers to war, he behaves with rare political wisdom, speaks with leaders all the time! Binyamin Netanyahu’s experience, his wisdom, his education!
“[He has] extensive education, university degrees. He also reads books, understands the economy, security, policy, he knows how to speak with leaders of the world! Where is your man? He doesn’t even reach the ankles of my husband, what, did Eli Moyal ever speak once with leaders of the world?! Did he ever do something in his life?
“… He [Binyamin Netanyahu] is one of the most veteran leaders in the world. In the United States they say that if he had been born in the US, he’d have been elected president there.”
He reads books! I mean,
books:
plural! He's practically a Trump-style yooge genius!
Let's hope the Israeli public give this abrasive, incompetent, corrupt, mendacious buffoon the bum's rush soon.