Uri Avnery on Bibi Yahoo’s wonder government:
Some weeks ago, Netanyahu appointed Hadas to one of the most sensitive positions in the security establishment: to coordinate all the efforts to free the “kidnapped” soldier Gilad Shalit.
If we do not want to assume that this man, a confidante of the Prime Minister and a former senior officer of the Mossad, who has been responsible for life-and-death decisions, was an accomplice to a vile fraud, there is no escape from the conclusion that his judgment is grievously impaired and that he fell into a trap that any person with common sense could have spotted a mile off.
How can such a person possibly be entrusted with such a sensitive task as the negotiation for a prisoner exchange with Hamas, in which sophisticated Egyptian mediators are involved?
And what does this say about the judgment of Netanyahu, who appointed him to this task, especially assuming that his wife had demanded it?
For more on Hagai Hadas and the scandel discussed by Avnery, see this article in Ha’aretz. The involvement of Israeli ex-military people in corruption scandels associated with Israel’s highly successful technology industries, is nothing new or unusual.
Tags: Corruption, Israeli Army
