Monday, October 23, 2006

Ex-Mosad Chief Wants To Put Us At Ease About Iran

Gee, what a relief.
DESPITE Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s declaration this week that Iran poses “an existential threat to Israel”, a former Mossad chief who is visiting Australia said Tehran lacks the military and strategic capability to destroy the Jewish State.

“Israel is indestructible today. It’s not so simple just to think you can have a device on your hand and you will able to hurl it on to a certain location and wipe out a nation,” Efraim Halevy told an Australian Friends of the Hebrew University dinner at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Monday.

Halevy, who ran the spy agency from 1998-2003, rejected assertions that Israel faced an “existential threat” during its recent war with Hezbollah. Such claims have “eroded Israel’s self-confidence”, he said.

“Israel has known of this threat [from Iran] for more than a decade-and-a half and has watched this threat grow – you must assume that Israel was not sitting on its hands ... or [waiting] for someone else to do the job.”
What is not at all clear is why--after the appeasement, concessions, and actions Israel has taken against her own citizens and best interests--we should make such an assumption.

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1 comment:

SnoopyTheGoon said...

I would agree with Halevi on his rejection of assertions that Israel faced an “existential threat” during its recent war with Hezbollah. Not that I have heard many people holding this view. We got a warning that we should heed, that's all.

Re Iran - this is another story. The Ayatollahs should be watched around the clock.