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Israel's Former Intelligence Chief Blasts Bibi's Iran Strategy

Yuval Diskin launched a stunning broadside attack on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak Friday, saying he doesn’t trust their “messianic” leadership. He accused them of promoting a war on Iran that could accelerate, rather than set back, Iran’s acquisition of a nuclear weapon.
Yuval Diskin, Israel's domestic security chief, makes a public speech at a homeland security conference in Tel Aviv November 1, 2010. Diskin identified cyber technologies as an ascendant international security threat. REUTERS/Nir Elias (ISRAEL - Tags: POLITICS SCI TECH)

Israel’s recently retired former intelligence chief launched a stunning broadside attack on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak Friday, saying he doesn’t trust their “messianic” leadership and accusing them of promoting a war on Iran that could accelerate, rather than set back, Iran’s acquisition of a nuclear weapon.

“The Israeli public is being spun on Iran, what worries me is that, we are creating a sense that if Israel doesn't act then Iran will get a nuclear bomb,” former Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin said at the “Majdi Forum” in the central Israeli town of Kfar Saba Friday, according to a translation. 

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