Evaluating The Worth Of The Mossad's Opinions -- HaaretzIn practical terms, the moderate line attributed to Dagan, outgoing Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi and various major generals seems preferable to that of Netanyahu-Barak, but Dagan has no advantage in a showdown with peers in the defense establishment.
All media outlets focused last week on former Mossad chief Meir Dagan. You could have gotten the impression that two dozen journalists were brought to the holy sanctum of Mossad headquarters, where Dagan taught them holy truths. Whether his views were articulated directly to the media or reached journalists from places other than Mossad headquarters, the prevailing fashion in 2011, in the era of WikiLeaks, is to set aside reliance on "foreign sources."
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My Comment: An interesting analysis on the importance of Mossad and its role in shaping (or not shaping) Israeli government policy .... and all of it coming from an Israeli paper. Read it all.
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