Ex-Security Chiefs Turn on Sharon

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Government Policies 'Create Hatred,' Israeli Newspaper Is Told

By Molly Moore
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, November 15, 2003; Page A01


JERUSALEM, Nov. 14 -- Four former chiefs of Israel's powerful domestic security service said in an interview published Friday that the government's actions and policies during the three-year-old Palestinian uprising have gravely damaged the country and its people.

The four, who variously headed the Shin Bet security agency from 1980 to 2000 under governments that spanned the political spectrum, said that Israel must end its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, that the government should recognize that no peace agreement can be reached without the involvement of the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, and that it must stop what one called the immoral treatment of Palestinians.

"We must once and for all admit that there is another side, that it has feelings and that it is suffering, and that we are behaving disgracefully," said Avraham Shalom, who headed the security service from 1980 until 1986. "Yes, there is no other word for it: disgracefully. . . . We have turned into a people of petty fighters using the wrong tools."

The statements to Israel's largest-circulation Hebrew-language daily newspaper, Yedioth Aharonoth, added to recent public criticism of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon by Israeli political, military and civic leaders for his failure to stop terrorism or negotiate peace as the uprising enters its fourth year.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42821-2003Nov14.html

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It's about time.

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1. Wow!

Even they can realise it! If only some others would...

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2. So many parallels with the Shrub regime

As Franco-American reporter Philippe Golub ("Le Monde Diplomatique") noted during Will Pitt's recent talk in Paris (paraphrase), "You know something is wrong when people like Will and I have to defend the CIA."

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3. American policy

It would seem that America is the only country left in the World that refuses to see the emperor has no clothes.

Our government and press seems to be in a quandary as to why all these people are suicidal terrorists.

Most people would rather be dead than be dominated and humiliated.