Israel's ex-security chief: Insecure Netanyahu seeks "messianic" war with Iran!
JERUSALEM (Yahoo/Reuters) - The former head of Israel's internal security service said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday was wavering and weak in an unusually personal condemnation of the right-winger, who enjoys a strong lead in polls ahead of the January 22 election.
Yuval Diskin, who retired as Shin Bet chief in 2011, last year warned that Netanyahu sought a "messianic" war with Iran.
His new criticism was potentially more potent given that Shin Bet duties include vetting civil servants' psychological fitness for security posts, though there was no indication Diskin was citing any official assessment of the prime minister.
"At play inside Netanyahu, in my opinion, is a mix of ideology, a deep sense that he is a prince of a 'royal family' from the Jerusalem elite, alongside insecurity and a deep fear of taking responsibility," Diskin said in a front-page interview published by Israel's biggest-selling daily Yedioth Ahronoth.
Ridiculing what he deemed Netanyahu's "zig-zag" style in decision-making, Diskin added that the prime minister "has no strong core, no tough kernel about which you can say, 'Know what? In an extreme situation, in a crisis situation, I can follow him. I can trust him.'"
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