"The Dramatic Moment When Israel Almost Struck Iran"
"He was in the room at every critical, defense-related moment in the past decades. Now, Zohar Palti, who held senior Mossad and Defense Ministry posts, recalls what happened when Netanyahu and Barak ordered the army to prepare an Iran strike – within 16 days".
Ten minutes into the conversation with Zohar Palti, who this week concluded his term as head of the Defense Ministry’s political-military bureau, it was clear that he wasn’t about to go easy either on himself or on the system in which he had spent nearly 40 years.
“One time, when I gave a talk in the Mossad’s senior command course, I was asked which past leader I would like to talk to if I could go back in time,” he relates. “I told the cadets: If only I could talk to Yitzhak Rabin, even for just five minutes, I would ask him one thing: Why in the world did you wait and not take us out of Lebanon? Why did we have to wait for more than 15 years, until Ehud Barak arrived on the scene? We were all doormat officers. None of us, from the rank of lieutenant and up, came out against the political echelon and their decision to remain in southern Lebanon. It was the silence of the lambs. Barak was right, of course. We should have gotten out long before that.”
Resten av intervjet er under betalingsløsning.
Skudeneshavn 26. mars 2022
Jan Marton Jensen
Kilde:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zohar_Palti
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