From Ha'aretz:
Former
prime minister Ehud Olmert accused on Friday Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
of wasting NIS 11 billion on “adventurous fantasies.” In an interview on
channel 2’s weekly magazine, Olmert estimated that the operations, for which
the funds were allocated, were not carried out.
Israel's
former prime minister also backed earlier accusations by Yuval Diskin, former
head of Israel’s Shin Bet security services, concerning the conduct of
Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak. He also said Barak was to blame for
the Harpaz affair.
“In
the last 2 years, 11 billion shekels were spent on operations which
were not and will not be carried out. These figures go
well beyond the multi-year budgets,” said Olmert. "We were told that 2012
was the decisive year. They managed to scare the entire world, but nothing was
done in the end.” He further stated that there is a surplus in Israel's defense
budget that should be cut, but no one is addressing this issue because of the
upcoming election.
The ex Shin Bet head Yuval Diskin
in an interview
with Yedioth Aharanoth said that
Netantahu was an unreliable leader 'possessed' by Iran.
The election battle in Israel has
turned not only ugly but absurd. The
only other explanation is that it is meant as a stratagem to fool the Iranians. For in my opinion if you are not really
worried i.e. 'possessed' by Iran being undeterred in launching
a nuclear war to bring back the Mahdi, then you are just not sufficiently informed. Surely Olmert and Diskin are sufficiently
informed! But are they?
Could it be that the only
difference between Netanyahu on the one hand and Olmert and Diskin on the other, is the time Bernard Lewis spent explaining to Netanyahu what the
Twelvers believe in? According to Ari
Shavit
A few years ago Netanyahu held an in-depth discussion with Middle East expert Bernard Lewis. At the end of the talk he was convinced that if the ayatollahs obtained nuclear weapons, they would use them. Since that day, Netanyahu seems convinced that we are living out a rerun of the 1930s.
Could it be that the fate of this country and the world
rests in the balance just because of ignorance?
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