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I suppose the election later this year in Israel will be used by Netanyahu as a mandate to attack Iran.
In that sense all right thinking people in Israel must use the period before the election to canvas the masses about the problems of attacking Iran, directly.
Can it be said that Iran's very weak passive response to Israel's mischief in that country, over many years, has encouraged and emboldened the hawks in Israel?
Unfortunately in Israel there has developed a psychology that strength alone, and the show of military might is the only avenue for Israel, in a Middle East that only understands military power, and nothing else.
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Former Israeli Officials Speaking Out Against Rush to Iran War
Olmert: Definitely Not Time to Attack Iran
by Jason Ditz at antiwar.com
A growing chorus of top former Israeli officials are speaking
out in opposition to an Israeli attack on Iran, with former Prime
Minister Ehud
Olmert the latest to declare that now is “definitely not” the time to
attack Iran.
Today’s opposition to the
war included a very public spat in New York between Israeli
Environmental Minister Gilad Erdan and former Mossad Chief Meir Dagan,
with Erdan accusing
Dagan of “sabotaging” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to
gain support for the war, and Erdan talking up the
long-standing efforts by Likud to legally bar former officials from
speaking publicly on the possible attack.
Dagan went on to defend
former Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin, who on Friday had also
criticized Netanyahu’s “messianic” administration, though he did say he
wished Diskin had spoken sooner instead of waiting until now.
Israel’s current political administration, hawkish to a man on the
Iran strike, has repeatedly publicly condemned Dagan and others for
speaking out against the prospect of the attack, accusing them of
playing for political gain.
