Former Shin Ben Chiefs Slam Netanyahu in Major Documentary!

“Shalom (Ex ShinBet chief) shocked viewers. He called Israeli occupation no different from Nazi occupied Europe.” – Quote

• Former Shin Ben Chiefs Slam Netanyahu in Major Documentary! 
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  In what is said to be a blockbuster and potential academy award-winning documentary called “The Gatekeepers,” six former chiefs of the Israeli internal security service, Shin Bet, slam Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and much of the country’s political elite for endangering the security of Israel.
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  Directed by Dror Moreh, the documentary features interviews with Avraham Shalom, Yaakov Peri, Carmi Gillon, Ami Ayalon, Avi Dichter and Yuval Diskin, successive heads of Shin Bet from 1980 to 2012. Their detailed comments on the principal security events they were involved in is said to have broken all the unwritten rules of the security establishment never to reveal such secrets, in order to warn Israelis the danger they face with the likes of Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak in power, the big danger being their drive for war against Iran and the refusal to come to a negotiating settlement with the Palestinians.
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  According to one report in the Middle East news site Al Monitor, typical of the comments by the six were those of Ami Ayalon who, when Ben-Gurion was Prime Minister, had said he knew that behind the door of the prime minister’s office was “a wise man, who makes decisions,” whom Ayalon’s parents called the Old Man. But since the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, “no one was thinking for” him in that office.
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  Each one of them told dramatic details of security operations and each one of them said that without a settlement with the Palestinians, Israel was heading towards potential disaster.  Commenting on all of these experiences, Yaakov Peri said, “These moments end up etched deep inside you, and when you retire, you become a bit of a leftist.”
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  Yuval Diskin said he agreed with the leading peace advocate Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz’s statement, “A state ruling over a hostile population of 1 million foreigners will necessarily become a Shin Bet state, with all that this implies for education, freedom of speech and thought, and democracy. The corruption found in every colonial regime will affix itself to the State of Israel.”
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  Diskin, whose comments on the program were summarized in Saturday’s briefing, also gave a 5,000 word interview to Israel’s mass circulation Yedioth Ahronoth daily, slamming Netanyahu for acting illegally in 2010 when he and Barak tried to convince Diskin, army chief Gabi Ashkenazi, and then head of the Mossad intelligence agency, Meir Dagan, to prepare the security establishment for an attack on Iran, before gaining approval from the full government, a move that Diskin called “illegal.” He also described attending what he called a bazarre and irresponsible meeting in which Netanyahu, Barak, and then-Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman discussed the Iranian nuclear threat over “cigars and liquor.”
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  Speaking only a few weeks before Israel goes to elections, Diskin said, “There is a leadership crisis. It’s a crisis of value, it is total disregard for the public. People may think that I see this in an overly extreme manner. I am telling you that from up close, things look even worse.  I am convinced we deserve a better leadership that’s braver and more moral, and that sets a better personal example. If I cause the Israeli voter to think twice before choosing parties and leaders that are not worthy, because they are actually not leading us where we should be going, I’ve done my part.”
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  On the Palestinian issue Diskin, slammed Netanyahu for being the man most responsible for building up Hamas against the Palestinian Liberation Organization and Palestinian President Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas), saying, “If we look at the situation over the years, one of the key people who contributed to the rise in Hamas’ strength is Bibi Netanyahu, back from his first term as prime minister.” He warned that under Netanyahu’s policy, “We are simply creating a situation that will be insoluble, because it will be impossible to reach a decisive outcome. Impossible. This illusion that the State of Israel will be able to control so many people and suppress their aspirations and their freedom over time, is frightening.”
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  According to the Daily Beast, Diskin criticized the Washington for “not wielding their influence to get both sides to make progress, and we have arrived at where we’ve arrived.”

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