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IDF and Mossad Chiefs Refused Netanyahu’s Order in 2010 to Prepare Strike on Iran

Nov. 5, 2012 7:05am Sharona Schwartz

Former Mossad Chief Meir Dagan in Channel 2 investigation: Netanyahu and Barak tried to “steal a war.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak two years ago ordered the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Mossad to prepare for a military attack on Iran’s clandestine nuclear sites – and be ready with just hours’ notice if necessary – but they were rebuffed by the leaders of the country’s two main security arms. This is according to Israel Channel 2’s investigative show “Uvda” (Fact) in its season premiere airing Monday night.

The show is characterizing the tense exchange between the political leaders and the then-security chiefs as an “unprecedented rift at the top echelon of the state a moment before a possible strike on Iran.”

The Times of Israel translated the advance excerpts of the show and writes:

The order to step up military readiness was given by Netanyahu and Barak to the then-chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Gabi Ashkenazi, and to the then-head of the Mossad, Meir Dagan, at a meeting on an unspecified date, the report claimed. But Dagan reportedly retorted that the order, if followed, might lead to a war based on an illegal decision. And Ashkenazi, reportedly declaring that such an attack would be “a strategic mistake,” also warned that the very order to prepare for a strike might set in motion a deterioration into war even if Israel didn’t actually choose to launch one.

Netanyahu and Barak chose not to insist that the security chiefs follow their orders, the program indicated.

While Netanyahu and Barak wanted an increased level of readiness, the report gives no indication that an actual strike decision was imminent.

Still, Gil Ronen, a reporter for the right-wing Arutz 7, wrote his concern about the incident:

While Dagan and Ashkenazi did not refuse orders, the report paints a worrisome picture in which some may see insubordination by the heads of the IDF and Mossad vis-à-vis the political echelon.

Fmr IDF Chief Gabi Ashkenazi (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

According to the Channel 2 report, the incident took place at the very end of a Jerusalem meeting of the “forum of seven” – the group of cabinet ministers and military leaders entrusted with the most classified state secrets. The Times of Israel further describes Uvda’s report:

Netanyahu and Barak reportedly instructed the heads of the defense establishment to initiate the highest level of military alert and prepare the military for a strike — within hours if necessary — on Iran’s nuclear facilities. But the move was stymied.

The report cited sources close to Ashkenazi and Dagan – who since stepping down from their respective posts have both been outspoken in their opposition to a strike on Iran – to the effect that as the two men were leaving the meeting, Netanyahu “matter-of-factly” instructed them to initiate the “P Plus” code, which is essentially a readying of the military to imminently launch an attack.

Ashkenazi and Dagan reportedly vehemently objected to the order.

“This isn’t the sort of thing that you do unless you’re certain that you’ll end up launching an operation,” Ashkenazi was quoted as saying. “It’s like an accordion that makes music even if it is merely handled.”

Ashkenazi was concerned this high level of alert would trigger other reactions and thus war would become a self-fulfilling prophesy even if his forces were only preparing for the worst.

Channel 2 spoke to several participants in the meeting who recalled that the Mossad’s Dagan responded even more stridently than did Ashkenazi, accusing Netanyahu and Barak of overstepping their authority, saying (Blaze translation):

“You might make an illegal decision to go to war […] Only the security cabinet is authorized to make a decision on that.” Later, Dagan explained: “The Prime Minister and Defense Minister simply tried to steal a war.”

Uvda “Exclusive”: Ehud Barak accuses former IDF chief of staff of not being prepared for war.

In response to the report, Defense Minister Ehud Barak told Uvda that IDF Chief of Staff Ashkenazi objected not for legal reasons but because the army hadn’t prepared a plan for attack, didn’t have the operational capacity and thus couldn’t carry out a successful strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Barak accused the chief of staff of failing to sufficiently prepare the army. Barak insisted that a “P Plus” state of alert does not mean war is imminent.

The show then quoted Ashkenazi who insists the military was ready, but added: “I also said that that attacking now would be a strategic mistake.”

Since stepping down from the Mossad, Meir Dagan has used the megaphone of his prominent position to slam the Netanyahu government’s consideration of a unilateral strike on Iran. He’s warned such a move could lead to a wider Mideast war and told 60 Minutes in March that bombing Iran at this point in time is “the stupidest idea” he’d ever heard. Dagan has been out of the news recently as he is recovering from a liver transplant.

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suz
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 3:05pm
divided governments, democracies run solely through the government without cohesive goals do not work.

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The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 10:14am
Didn’t this happen about 10 years ago as well? Some Israeli pilots refusing to drop their bombs, though ordered to do so?

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- MKFlyboy
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 10:37am
  Did you mean the time the Israelis crushed the nuclear program in Syria, or were you going all the way back to when they crushed Sadam Hussein’s reactor? Nope, I believe they dropped those.
  
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- rickc34
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 12:51pm
  If Iran attacked the United States Obama would do nothing but bend over and apologize . Israels left leaning political leaders will be the death of many Jews just like our left leaning leaders will be the death of many Americans.
  
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Mister Natural
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 10:09am
Who’s the Great Satan? U.S. , and Iran hates U.S.. Israel’s Satan, Jr.
So if Iran wants to use it’s forthcoming nuke, it can wait until it has the missile capable of delivering the bomb or it can stow it on a steamer and float it into a port, U.S. or Israeli.
Since the Iranians are obsessed with killing Jews, too, we should take heed that the major Jewish population centers outside Israel are NY & Boston & DC & South Florida & LA & San Fran(all on navigable waterways, last I heard).
So when you hear folks dismissing the Iranian nuke program as “Israel’s problem, just imagine a nuke going off in the Lower Hudson Bay. Bye, bye lower Manhattan or one of the other cities.

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MKFlyboy
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 10:02am
Israel is a tiny country that cannot afford the luxury of responding to a first strike from a nuclear Iran. For those of you who think tying Netanyahu’s hands is a great idea, I would love to see your comments as the pictures come back of a mushroom cloud over Tel Aviv. This assumes, of course, that OUR computers will still be working after a possible simultaneous EMP attack on the US which Iran has also long been preparing for.

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- MKFlyboy
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 10:20am
  I agree, Mister. The Iranians are nuts, but they’re not stupid. I can’t imagine them having a plan that would destroy Isreal, without including a way to cripple our ability to respond. There’s no perfect solution, but all we seem to be doing is allowing them time to perfect their capabilities and strategy.
  
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woodyee
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 8:59am
Allah-hu Akbar!

Get used to it…

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 9:07am
  Good to see at least someone exercise a little commonsense in that belligerent nation. Those two men could have stopped a major world conflict. Makes you stop and think of a higher power.
  
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ellietoo
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 8:05am
There are many in the government of Israel that are as radically deceived as our left is. They are still in denial about the destruction their country faces from Iran and other countries that surround them. They still think they can wish the bad guys away or pay them off with land.
The public, however, are very aware of the dangers they face everyday from their neighbors. The “palestinians” are bred on hatred of Israel. From birth to grave the Muslims are fed hatred for Israel and the west. They justify their hatred with a book that most of them cannot even read because all the aid we send to those countries goes to make weapons instead of educating and feeding the people.

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- MKFlyboy
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 8:26am
  I couldn’t agree more, and I want to thank you for posting the first intelligent and sane comment on this thread. I think we’ve heard quite enough from the “No Blood for Oil,” the “9/11 Truthers.” and the Neville Chamberlain club!
  
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- ShamanWorld
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 9:01am
  @Elliot If you truly believe what you say,then why don’t you go over there and volunteer for the IDF to be the first boots on the ground in Iran. If not, shut up. The people against this war in Israel know better than you or I what they must do; and if the threat was that severe,Israelis ruthless enough to have acted already.We have fought enough wars for the zionists. Even Thomas Jefferson and George Washington warned us of these characters and allying ourselves with them.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 9:09am
  Ellietoo, and there are those in all governments that think the only answer is war. You’re really no different from those you chastise.
  
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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 9:24am
  Ellie: “The “palestinians” are bred on hatred of Israel.”
  
  That’s like saying that “Jews” were bred on hatred of Germany in the mid-20th century. You’re in good company.
  
  Fact is, both Palestinians and Jews were given reasons to hate, when each nation, Israel and Germany, exercised the policies of ethnic cleansing. In each, the nations took the land, took the homes, took the businesses, of the Palestinian and Jewish people. Both nations forced their displaced peoples to live in walled off ghettos.
  
  You can not say that yours is good, and the other evil. Either both are good or both are evil.
  
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- luxlife
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 9:57am
  @shameworld – “Even Thomas Jefferson and George Washington warned us of these characters and allying ourselves with them.
  
  That’s a biiig stretch sparky and entirely misleading in this context.
  
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- tzion
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 7:12pm
  @Jerk
  Palestinians are bred on hatred. The Palestinian schools use textbooks that praise suicide bombers. Same is true of their children TV programs. I even seem to recall a Palestinian news station inviting a young girl on to talk about a poem she wrote about the greatness of being a Shahid. Those are facts.
  
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ginger100
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 8:01am
Hopefully we will have Admirals and Generals who will refuse the order to kill Americans.

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Jenasus
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 7:47am
The only reason America wants to go to war with Iran is to save the Petro Dollar.
The only reason America went to war in Iraq was to save the Petro Dollar.
The war on terrorists is as fake and drummed up as the War on Drugs.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 9:30am
  Not true. The men that wrote this study for Israel, in 1996, were in the Bush II administration when we went to war, in 2003, with Iraq under false and misleading intelligence. They gave us, and the New York Times, their contrived false information. The N.Y. Times published their false information, only to later apologize, after they had their war for Israel.
  
  http://www.israeleconomy.org/strat1.htm
  
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Individualism
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 7:44am
good for them and hopefully our troops refuse Romney or Obamas orders to attack Iran.

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ShamanWorld
Posted on November 5, 2012 at 7:43am
But I thought Obama was forcing Bibi and Israel to not attack Iran? Our media is garbage all the way around. Glenn Beck is a royal POS for pretending to be so righteous when he knows he is a hack and nothing more. If he wasn’t, he’d investigate Bush/Cheney’s role in the real 9-11 coverup. Some people would rather watch the world burn than to use common sense. The USA cannot afford another war; and our troops deserve a break. Iran is not a threat at all to us or Israel physically. Iran is a threat because they do not play puppet to the Global Bankers and power structure.

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- MKFlyboy
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 8:53am
  Glenn Beck strongly supports the First Amendment and the concept of free speech, and thus, he provides this forum on which the most misguided, ill-informed and twisted minds are free to publically state their opinions. You should be profusely thanking the man since you have just unequivocally proven my point.
  
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- ShamanWorld
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 9:34am
  @FlyboyYou only use words to make yourself feel and sound smart. If you can’t stand the fact that Bush/Cheney had prior knowledge and interest(gave a reason to attack Iraq and war profiteer like Bush’s Granpa) of 9-11, then you are “misguided” and un-patriotic.
  
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- MKFlyboy
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 9:51am
  I am so flattered that have you chosen to include me in the list of great men whom you demonize. I will take that as the highest compliment, thank you.
  
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