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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Mossad chief: Obama's perceived military "softness" weakens Israel
2010-06-09
Debka, so salt as necessary.
Meir Dagan, head of Israel's Mossad external security service, presented the Knesset foreign affairs and security committee with this evaluation 24 hours after Israeli Navy boarding parties prevented vessels sailing the Mediterranean from achieving their object of breaking the Gaza blockade. As the UN Security Council's condemned the loss of life in that raid, the Mossad chief said Barack Obama's first year as president was a period of "devaluation" for "Israeli and American strategic assets."

He timed his cutting observations for the day Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was to have held talks in White House with President Obama. Although that meeting was cancelled and Netanyahu cut short his trip to return home and deal with the crisis over the flotilla incident, the Mossad Director decided that what he had to say was important enough to be said and aired without delay.

The Obama-Netanyahu meeting had been scheduled as a high point in President Obama's charm offensive for mending his ties with Israel and American Jewish leaders, Dagan noted. By speaking out now, he hoped they would be warned not to be taken in by Obama's smiles and understand that his attitude toward the Israeli government had not changed in any fundamental way.
Thank you, President Obama.
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#6  Perceived? LOL
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2010-06-09 20:19  

#5  "Such if there are such things in Bambi's background that he has to pay law firms to squelch it at the rate of a million dollars a year, if Bambi isn't careful, I wouldn't put it past Mossad to arrrange a "scoop" for some reporter."

I doubt The Manchurian Candidiate Bambi's doing the paying - the money's coming from Soros, or someone even worse.

I hope the Israelis do something like this. Late January of next year, if they think they can wait that long - otherwise, just go for it.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2010-06-09 15:50  

#4  It could also be taken as a warning. I mean, compared to the CIA, Mossad is actually relatively competent. Such if there are such things in Bambi's background that he has to pay law firms to squelch it at the rate of a million dollars a year, if Bambi isn't careful, I wouldn't put it past Mossad to arrrange a "scoop" for some reporter.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2010-06-09 14:35  

#3  It is probably Israel's way of sending a message to BHO that he is causing problems for Israel with his perceived pro-Arab stance and that he is creating a more dangerous rather than a less dangerous mideast.
Posted by: JohnQC   2010-06-09 10:04  

#2  actually, BH6, I think he is, just as Leon Panetta is Director of the CIA - they are the public face of a faceless org.
Posted by: Frank G   2010-06-09 09:56  

#1  I didn't know they named the "head of the mossad" in public..I'd imagine that Dagan is not really the head of the mossad.
Posted by: Broadhead6   2010-06-09 08:49  

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