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Ex-NSC chief Uzi Arad: Israel’s next war should be decisive

National Security: Under fire from all fronts

Leading into the March 2 elections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s twice former national security adviser, Uzi Arad, believes his former boss has not acted decisively enough in war, and has “left the home front unacceptably vulnerable.”

“If you are committing to a round of fighting, then act decisively in a way that there will not need to be any more rounds,” declared Arad forcefully in an extensive interview with The Jerusalem Post covering the Gazan, Hezbollah, Syrian, West Bank and Iranian fronts.

The national security adviser to Netanyahu both in 1997-1999 and again in 2009-2011, and also a top former Mossad official, said that he would have preferred that Israel deal a decisive blow to Hamas during the 2009 or 2014 Gaza wars.

However, Arad said that Israel now faces greater threats both from Hezbollah and Hamas than it did when Netanyahu took over in 2009, leaving it poorer choices.

As things stand now, “Israel has no interest in war on any front. If it’s necessary, then it’s necessary…. But if it leads to a calamity on our home front… then all military action would be a losing proposition because we’ll need to pay a price that we never paid before.”

Given Hezbollah’s and Hamas’s more deadly rocket capabilities, a problem that Arad said Netanyahu failed to prevent, “we should try to push off initiating a war until we get stronger and so we can be more ready to deal with the price.”

Zooming out to the broad view of threats Israel faces, Arad explained: “The fact is that in our situation, we can’t isolate one front from the rest, to say ‘this is our highest priority.’ Our biggest challenge is that we have a multi-conflict situation. There are many security challenges, and they are occurring simultaneously.”

“In a situation where Israel is coping with multiple fronts, we still need to decide… what is the priority. This is a difficult problem,” he said.

“At some point we need to end Gaza’s offensives against Israel. Just as we cannot tolerate an Iranian presence in Syria… so Israel cannot allow continued offensives from Gaza,” noted Arad, adding: “I said during Operation Protective Edge – we needed to go deep into Gaza… but you need to build the capabilities and strategy to accomplish this in advance. When the time comes, you must deliver.”

“He [Netanyahu] talked big about the 2014 Gaza war… but carried it out half-heartedly. When you only go halfway, you only get half the results,” said the former national security adviser.

Continuing, he said, “So Bibi said the goal was quiet for quiet. I said this is a strategic mistake because if you send the IDF, but then limit its goals, you are ensuring a future round of fighting.”

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Ex-NSC-chief-Uzi-Arad-Israels-next-war-should-be-decisive-619134

Netanyahu: 'I will not ask for a plea deal in my trial'

Prime Minister Benjamin Netnayahu denied the claims he would be asking for a plea deal and further claimed he never brought it up to his lawyers.

Prime Minister benjamin Netanyahu denied he would be asking for a plea deal at his trial in an interview to Walla news.

In response to the claims made by Yisrael Beitenu leader Avigdor Liberman, Netanyahu said "I have rejected every attempt from journalists and others to promote such a thing," he said.

He continued, saying "I have said so in the past, I am going to blow all these ludicrous claims and false cases I was given out of the water. I demand full transparency, I demanded it in my hearing, but the Attorney General refused."

"But they also refuse to reveal the Ashkenazi-Mandelblit recording from the Herpaz case," Netanyahu continued. "Until recently they also refused to investigate [Blue and White Leader] Benny Gantz's 'Fifth dimension' case. They didn't investigate Yoav Segalovich's case, who was tampering with the investigation when he was head of the investigation department alongside his friend Gabi Ashkenazi. I demand they remove the non-disclosure agreements immediately.The public deserve to know - all of it"

Netanyahu also said it would be outrageous if a supreme court warrant is issued stating that he cannot form a government. "In a democracy it's the people that are the ones who decide who leads." Though he did not rule out the possibility that he would promote a new law that overturns the high court. "I don't believe the court will make such a decision, it will cause untold damage to our democratic rule."

Netanyahu used much of the interview's time to criticize Benny Gantz and his ability to form a government and referred to the recordings published on Thursday of Gantz's adviser, Yisrael Bachar, wherein he doubts Gantz's leadership abilities.

"If someone is going to be prime minister, he must first be able to stand up to things like this, the public needs to know either way."

Netanyahu denied any connection to the tapes as well the Rabbi who recorded them, despite the fact it was published they met during that same week. "The one who cooked this medicine is Benny Gantz himself. In his weakness, his hesitancy, in his leadership material," he said.

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Netanyahu-I-will-not-ask-for-a-plea-deal-in-my-trial-619223

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>>8276497 Catholic Priest says 'there is no divine judgement'

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You don't get into that position without serving Satan and abusing children so we'll go with Jesus thanks asshat