by Yoni Hersch
Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick accuses former Mossad chief Meir Dagan and former IDF chief Gabi Ashkenazi of interfering with Israeli plans to strike Iran • Claim "insulting," says Ashkenazi • "We never disobeyed an order," says Dagan.
Former Mossad chief Meir
Dagan and former IDF chief Gabi Ashkenazi the Jerusalem Post Annual
Conference in New York on Sunday
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Photo credit: Sivan Farge  |
Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan and former IDF
Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi were accused during a panel discussion in
New York on Sunday of interfering with Israel's plans to strike Iran.
Former head of the National Security Council
Maj. Gen. (res.) Uzi Dayan and Maj. Gen. (res.) Giora Island also
participated in the panel, at the Jerusalem Post Annual Conference in
New York, where one of the paper's columnists, Caroline Glick, claimed
Dagan and Ashkenazi had prevented a military strike on the Islamic
republic.
Denying her claim, Dagan told her, "You were
not there, you don't know what happened there." He added that they had
"never disobeyed an order" from the prime minister.
Dagan further said that the conversation Glick
had referenced was one in which he had told Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu that in order for an attack on Iran to be planned, the cabinet
would need to approve the massive call-up of reservists that would be
necessary.
He added that had those legally required steps
been taken, the security officials would have moved forward with the
orders. What happened instead, he said, was that after presenting
various strike scenarios and their consequences, Netanyahu decided
against the attack.
Ashkenazi confirmed what Dagan said,
reiterating that "there was never a decision [to strike Iran]." He
called Glick's assertion "insulting."
Yoni Hersch
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=26033
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