Barak’s Follies Finally Revealed

[Classical_Liberal]

Barak’s Follies Finally Revealed
Sunday, June 20 2004 @ 01:33 PM EDT

"The debate following comments by former head of the intelligence division of the Israeli army—MI-was largely ignored by the media in Canada and the US.."

By Samer Elatrash
The Palestine Chronicle

Of the two issues that have preoccupied the Israeli media over the past fortnight, only one has attracted the attention of the North American media: Ariel Sharon’s much publicized indictment for corruption charges ended last week after Israel’s Attorney General cleared Sharon and his sons of any wrongdoing.

The debate following comments by Amos Malka, the former head of the intelligence division of the Israeli army—MI-was largely ignored by the media in Canada and the US.

Opposition members of the Knesset are calling for an inquiry after the Israeli newspaper Haaretz published an interview with Amos Malka. In the interview, Malka accused Amos Gilad, an advisor to Ariel Sharon who headed MI’s research department at the start of the Intifada, of “retroactively rewrit MI's assessments” to bolster the impression that the June 2000 Camp David negotiations had failed because Yassir Arafat never intended to achieve a peace deal with Israel.

According to Malka, Gilad was “a very significant factor in persuading a great many eople... in all the time that I served as head of MI, the research division did not produce so much as a single document expressing the assessment that Gilad claims to have presented to the prime minister .”......

http://www.palestinechronicle.com/story.php?sid=20040620133313298

[bemildred]

1. Lies, all of it stinking lies! This is a unreliable site anyway!

Blah blah blah blah ...

But seriously, I like this:

"For those who were closely following the course of
events ever since the outbreak of the Al Aqsa Intifada,
the recent revelations are of no novelty. What is new is
that the criticism of the "No Partner" myth comes from
the heart of the Israeli Intelligence establishment."

One is tempted to draw parallels with the American spooks'
insurrection against the ongoing stupidity in Iraq.