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“Rabin was the closest prime minister to getting a peace settlement within the Middle East. He hated the settlers — actually hated them. And he was able to settle with Abu Mazen [PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas], although he didn’t like him. He understood that’s the one answer for Israel’s future,” Peri stated.
But Netanyahu had no alternative however to launch the Lebanon marketing campaign, he added. “Hezbollah had the whole lot prepared to tug off the identical type of motion as Oct. 7. I can’t say that I’m towards the Lebanon incursion. It is a necessity,” he stated. “We perceive that the world doesn’t prefer it. And the world is not going to be sympathetic to Israel once we’re killing youngsters and civilians in Gaza and Lebanon. But we haven’t received a alternative. If we wish to keep alive in Israel, we have now to.”
And but, for all of that, he nonetheless harbors little question that Netanyahu is prolonging the battle “for private political issues.”
“Netanyahu’s desirous about conflict lasting for so long as doable, so it leaves him in his seat,” he stated. “Bibi is chained to 2 ministers in his coalition authorities who dream of rebuilding the temple of the kings of Judea … It is unbelievable. It is Messianic. And they’re menacing each time there’s an opportunity of a deal to launch the hostages, a cope with the Palestinians and the chance for compromise,” he added.
Above all, nonetheless, Peri lamented the shortage of thought given to an general technique, which is being crowded out by a relentless concentrate on ways, and he criticized Netanyahu for not having day-after plans. Discussing the groundbreaking 2012 documentary “The Gatekeepers” — which chronicled Shin Bet, that includes interviews with six of its former heads, together with Peri — he reiterated the one clear message all the previous chiefs conveyed: Israel should come to a political settlement with Palestinians.
“We’re all the identical,” he stated. “I served for 32 years within the service. I nonetheless assume the largest error of Israel isn’t reaching a cope with the Palestinians. It’s the largest error, the largest failure of the Israelis.” Netanyahu’s simply compounding the error, repeating the identical mistake his predecessors made — a mistake Rabin tried to appropriate, costing him his life.
But with half 1,000,000 Israeli settlers within the West Bank and a authorities lurching towards the precise — because it at all times does after struggling trauma — is it doable to begin significantly negotiating a settlement? “If we have now inside strife amongst ourselves, even bodily battle between Israelis, Israel will nonetheless survive. It will survive that and that’s the purpose. [But] anybody who cares about the way forward for Israel has to know that with out fixing the Palestinian concern, Israel gained’t survive,” he confused.
The story is much from over.
