Ex-Mossad chief warns of ‘demographic threat’

A former head of the Mossad warns against a demographic threat to the State of Israel brought about by the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which he says poses the greatest risk to the state.

“The Jewish state has one existential threat,” Tamir Pardo says at a conference in Netanya in memory of his late predecessor, Meir Dagan. The Jewish and Palestinian populations in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip are nearly equal, and Israel must act to separate itself. “It’s the time bomb that’s been ticking all the time for a while. In an exceptional way we’ve decided to bury our heads deep in the sand, to preoccupy ourselves with alternative facts and flee from reality while creating other various external threats.”

He says we are fast approaching the point of no return, at which point a bi-national state will be the only solution, marking the end of the Zionist dream. “The clock is ticking, we must weigh the facts and not the alternative facts and reach a decisions. The time has come to choose a direction.”