About Us

IMRA
IMRA
IMRA

 

Subscribe

Search


...................................................................................................................................................


Friday, April 17, 2015
Background: Security heads blocked Netanyahu from possibly attacking Iran

Background: Security heads blocked Netanyahu from possibly attacking Iran
Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA 17 April, 2015 [with thanks to Gil Lerner for the
research]

"At the end of a meeting of the Septet in 2010 with the presence of also the
then head of the Mossad, Meir Dagan, and the then Chief of Staff Gabi
Ashkenazi, Netanyahu ordered to bring the security system to the "P-Plus"
alert level - a code whose significance is raising the military system to
prepare for a possible attack...

Minister of Defense Ehud Barak said in an interview for the program that
Chief of Staff Ashkenazi replied to the Prime Minister that the army was not
ready [AL: to attack Iran], and that it does not possess the operational
capabilities to carry such a thing out. Barak claims in the interview with
Ilana Dayan that in contradiction to the position of two senior members of
the security system, the significance of the "P-Plus" order is not
necessarily going to war."
Gillie Cohen - Haaretz 4 November 2012
http://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/1.1856913

"They tried to drag us into winding up the military and security system for
launching an operation[AL: against Iran], when it was clear that such an
operation is entering war...The head of the Mossad, the head of the Shabbak
and the Chief of Staff, I think also of the head of Military Intelligence,
was there. We rose and we said that this was an illegal decision. Such an
order could not be given, because its significance is basically that the
army is being prepared to go to war. And going to war is already a decision
that only the Government has the authority to make."
Yuval Diskin - Yediot Ahronot 4 January 2013
http://article.yedioth.co.il/default.aspx?articleid=6852

Chief of Staff Gantz: The matter [AL: of attacking Iran] never reached to
point of 'take off and fly'. It never go to that.
Ilana Dayan (Channel 2): Because, among other things, what they heard from
you?
Gantz: I want to believe and think that they listened and thought about
what I said.
Channel Two TV News - 2 March 2015
http://www.mako.co.il/news-military/security-q1_2015/Article-e0330cd5656db41004.htm

________________________________________
IMRA - Independent Media Review and Analysis

Since 1992 providing news and analysis on the Middle East with a focus on Arab-Israeli relations

Website: www.imra.org.il

Search For An Article

....................................................................................................

Contact Us

POB 982 Kfar Sava
Tel 972-9-7604719
Fax 972-3-7255730
email:imra@netvision.net.il IMRA is now also on Twitter
http://twitter.com/IMRA_UPDATES

image004.jpg (8687 bytes)