Before Netanyahu’s speech, the propaganda organ of Qatar, and The Guardian, teamed up to “discredit” Netanyahu by leaking what was described as a “Mossad memo” and then explaining to their audience what they thought that leaked memo meant. They made much of little.
Jonathan Tobin took apart both the Guardian and Al Jazeera, and that supposedly devastating-to-Netanyahu memo, here.
Some, however, apparently insufficiently interested in the matter to go beyond what was offered by The Guardian and Al Jazeera, continued to write as if Netanyahu indeed was making things up, was crying wolf, was hysterical. And they continued to ignore the many members of the intelligence services in Israel who support Netanyahu, on Iran — even if they may not support his political ambitions — to the hilt. One of those is J. J. Goldberg, an editor at large for the Jewish Forward, who gloated over the Al Jazeera-Guardian report, taking it all at face value, uninterested in performing the kind of analysis that Tobin offered. Why?
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One Response
Unfortunately, there are a number of individuals in the Israeli security establishment, both current and former, who love to give their own views regarding the Iran crisis. Former Mossad chief Meir Dagan is the most egregious example. There was a time when even the actual IDENTITY of current and former Mossad heads was a state secret. Dagan loves the limelight, and even permitted CBS’s 60 minutes program to air a segment on him. Apparently, Dagan’s ego won’t permit him to slip anonymously into that good night. This must stop! The stakes are too grave to allow even former security chiefs to play fast and loose with the media to bolster their own political aspirations at the expense of Israel’s national security posture. You know the expression: Three Jews, five opinions.