Intervju i Haaretz 24. mars 2022 av Zohar Palti om hans tid i Mossad og Israels Forsvarsdep:
"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.”
Om Libanon ... spørsmål til Rabin:
Why did we have to wait for more than 15 years ..."
Ja, 15 år med israelsk okkupasjon av Sør-Libanon.
Og tortur og ummenneskelig behandling av fanger i Khiam-fengselet i samarbeid med SLA.
..............
Resten av intervjet er under betalingsløsning.
Skudeneshavn 26. mars 2022
Jan Marton Jensen
Kilde:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zohar_Palti
24. mars 2022
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT.MAGAZINE-the-dramatic-moment-when-israel-almost-struck-iran-1.10696400
