Egozi’s Fury

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Former General Security Service (Shabak) Director Yuval Diskin joins other former directors in criticizing Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. These people end their terms with a smile or a frown, and then begin to unleash the fires of hell on their former bosses. It always looked suspicious to me. If things are so bad, why did they keep doing their jobs in those conditions? I’ll tell you why. When you’re sitting in a large office, surrounded by assistants who obey your every whim, things look different. No one wants to leave these positions unless they have to. The criticisms reflect badly on those former directors. They didn’t have the courage to get up and say something while they were still in the loop. They didn’t have the courage to get up and leave, saying “I can’t work like this.” So we shouldn’t take their criticisms seriously, without courage it’s all just noise.

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Inspectors in Syria are proud – they destroyed all the “means of delivery” of the chemical warfare compounds. That’s just great. So they destroyed Skud missile warheads and maybe some artillery shells. That’s a pretty shaky achievement, as is the entire agreement between the world powers and Syria. If Assad wants he can load up a large amount of toxins on a plane a send it on a suicide mission to Israel. There’s a chance it might get shot down immediately, but maybe it wouldn’t. The celebrations over the so-called agreement with Syria were too early, as were the celebrations over the destruction of said means of delivery. Assad has chemical warfare materials. The world likes to be fooled. Assad understands that.

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U.S. Secretary of State Jon Kerry knows everything about the negotiations with the Palestinians, but when he said that “Israel and the Palestinians were never this close to peace,” that’s based more on wishful thinking than on actual information. You can’t have real peace, or a real agreement, with a political entity that raises children since kindergarten to hate Israel. These children won’t grow up to be engineers or doctors, they’ll become terrorists.

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So in Judea and Samaria they’re doing exactly what the Hamas in Gaza is doing, except there it’s done overtly and in the west bank it’s done covertly. Mahmoud Abbas speaks with two voices, one negotiates with Israel and the other oversees the planning of more acts of terrorism. This entire process is utter nonsense, and so is talking about being on the verge of peace.

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All the emergency drills conducted once in a while, like this week’s chemical attack drill, are worthless. The emergency personnel themselves are good people and highly motivated, but their superiors in the highest ranks, the various cabinet ministers, never even considered giving up some of their authority in order to create a comprehensive, integrated emergency response system. Israelis never learn. Cabinet ministers want their photos taken next to a red fire truck or next to a fake chemical missile, they don’t care about anything beyond that. And so emergency responsibilities are divided between the Defense, Internal Security, Home Front Defense ministers and probably a few others. It doesn’t really make any sense, to anyone. So the drills, surprisingly, always end up well, but in reality we’re in a lot of trouble. No matter, though. Every minister prays nothing bad will happen during his or her term, even if they’re not religious. But whenever the next disaster hits, it’s always our term, and we’re definitely not ready.

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The well-oiled propaganda machine keeps claiming there’s no intifadah, and that the recent incidents on the border with Syria are “on the sidelines of the civil war.” The charge detonation on Friday, threatening an IDF patrol, wasn’t on the sidelines of anything, exactly like all previous events. Sometimes even this kind of propaganda machine can’t handle the facts. So here they are: There’s an active intifada in the west bank and there are attacks on IDF forces in the Golan Heights. Israel denies this so it won’t have to respond properly. They stutter in Judea and Samaria and mumble in the Golan. Sometimes an IDF force opens fire on a Syrian force, but these weak retaliations mean nothing to the radical Muslim terrorists, many of whom are cooperating with Assad’s army – not that it’s easy to tell them apart, anyway.

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“Inspectors will arrive at the Iranian Arak nuclear reactor this week.” Another joke by the so-called “world powers.” I’m sure they’ll get to see all the pretty offices, labs and lawns. What they won’t get to see are the places were plutonium is produced. I’m sure the Iranians will welcome them with open arms, pleased with the immense success of their scheme. The world is too late, Iran is on its way to developing atomic bombs. It’s a done deal. Only the blind can’t see what’s just in front of their eyes.