Ex-Mossad boss: Fear-mongering Netanyahu is antithesis of Churchill

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PM is nothing like his role model, says Efraim Halevy. He’s leading Israel to a third intifada, and his calling Iran’s nuclear drive an existential threat is a ‘terrible mistake’

Netanyahu commits a “terrible mistake” by defining the Iran’s nuclear ambitions as a matter of life or death, Halevy said, “because I do not believe there is an existential threat to Israel. I think the Iranians can cause us a lot of damage, if they succeed in one way or another to launch a nuclear device which will actually hit the ground here in Israel. But this in itself would not bring the state of Israel to an end.”

Speaking of Iran’s nuclear drive in those existential terms tells the Iranians that Israelis believe Tehran actually has the power to destroy the Jewish state, said Halevy, who spent most of his career in the Mossad, served also as Israel’s ambassador to the EU, and was national security adviser to prime minister Ariel Sharon.

“It’s almost inviting them to do so, because they will say, ‘If the Israelis themselves believe that they are vulnerable and can be destroyed then that is sufficient basis to go and do it.’”

If Netanyahu remains prime minister, he will not be able keep the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a “holding pattern,” Halevy, who sits on The Times of Israel’s Editorial Board, predicted. “The prime minister will not be able to hold out, because he has no alternative. The alternative of simply being in a holding pattern has exhausted itself, I think. It is no longer sustainable… for the Palestinians, the wider Arab world or the international community.”

Therefore, there will be a “clear confrontation between us and the Palestinians, which could lead ultimately to the dissolution of the Palestinian Authority,” he predicted, “and the situation will degenerate into a Third Intifada.”

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