On Friday, Meir Dagan, the former head of Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad, told one of the leading Israeli newspapers, Yedioth Ahronoth: “The person who has caused the greatest strategic damage to Israel on the Iranian issue is the prime minister.” Dagan, who was the director of Mossad from 2002 to 2010, continued, “I’ve seen leaders [...]
Just hours after Netanyahu boarded a plane bound for Washington, the group of former generals and intelligence heads held a press conference in Tel Aviv where they stated that Netanyahu’s policies and upcoming speech to Congress were doing irreparable harm to U.S.-Israel relations and would do nothing to stop Iran’s nuclear program. “When the Israeli [...]
Have the U.S. critics of those prospective deals lost their voice? Are they shy about expressing their concerns? Are they inarticulate or incompetent? Do they lack the wherewithal to get their message out? Not exactly. Every day a new report or analysis warns of the consequences of various concessions that the Obama administration may or [...]
As I compete against Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel’s 2015 elections, I am as committed to the bipartisan approach as my father and Israel’s other founding fathers and mothers were — for example, David Ben-Gurion, Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin and Shimon Peres. That is why I strongly believe that Mr. Netanyahu’s planned [...]
The message Bibi is preparing to deliver on Tuesday (a “statesmanlike message,” according to an official close to him) has as its actual target not Congress but, instead, Israeli voters who need reminding, in Netanyahu’s view, that he is the only leader strong enough to face down both the genocidal regime in Tehran and the [...]
The Central Elections Committee rejected the Likud’s petition against the V15 grassroots organization Sunday, and ordered the party to pay NIS 48,000 ($12,450) to the defendants. The Likud charged that the left-wing group had illegal ties to the Zionist Union and its leader, Isaac Herzog. CEC Chairman Salim Joubran ruled that the allegations were “patently [...]
There will never be peace in the Middle East as long as Israelis don’t treat the Palestinians as equals, Efraim Halevy said last week, accusing senior government officials of advancing “condescending” policies toward the Palestinians. In a wide-ranging interview with The Times of Israel, the former head of the Mossad intelligence agency accused the outgoing government, especially Prime Minister [...]
Ha’aretz – November 23, 2014 Former Mossad Chief: For the First Time, I Fear for the Future of Zionism By Shabtai Shavit From the beginning of Zionism in the late 19th century, the Jewish nation in the Land of Israel has been growing stronger in terms of demography and territory, despite the ongoing conflict [...]
I’ve always thought Gideon Levy to be way out there and too extremist and biased against Israel. Now, in reading the article pasted below, I find myself thinking he will be precisely right if we don’t take all possible legal measures and do everything in our power to help Israeli moderates seize back the agenda [...]