Israeli Spy Boss Turns on Netanyahu

As the tension escalates in Israel over what to do about Iran...the cracks start to surface.

Israel's former security chief has censured the country's "messianic" political leadership for talking up the prospects of a military stike on Iran's nuclear programme.

In unusually candid comments set to ratchet up tensions over Iran at the top of Israel's political establishment, Yuval Diskin, who retired as head of the internal intelligence agency Shin Bet last year, said he had "no faith" in the abilities of the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, and the defence minister, Ehud Barak, to conduct a war.

The pair, who are the foremost advocates of military action against Iran's nuclear programme, were "not fit to hold the steering wheel of power", Diskin told a meeting on Friday night.

"My major problem is that I have no faith in the current leadership, which must lead us in an event on the scale of war with Iran or a regional war," he said.

"I don't believe in either the prime minister or the defence minister. I don't believe in a leadership that makes decisions based on messianic feelings. Believe me, I have observed them from up close ... They are not people who I, on a personal level, trust to lead Israel to an event on that scale and carry it off.

"They are misleading the public on the Iran issue. They tell the public that if Israel acts, Iran won't have a nuclear bomb. This is misleading. Actually, many experts say that an Israeli attack would accelerate the Iranian nuclear race."

Here;  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/28/israeli-spy-chief-warns-netanyahu-barak

Holy dissension!  This sounds serious!  Imagine if the former head of the CIA came out and said that Obama is basically unfit to lead the nation and that his decisions are based on his messianic feelings?

Of course most Americans wouldn't even hear the news because they wouldn't talk about it on American Idol....but in tiny Israel with only 7 million people, I would think this would start to really get the debate set into high gear on WHAT TO DO ABOUT IRAN.