Former Shin Bet chief blasts ‘coward’ Netanyahu, says Israel ‘lost its way’

19 March 2018, 3:48 pm

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Yuval Diskin, a former head of Israel’s Shin Bet security agency, derides Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “coward” and says that under his rule, the country has “lost its way.”

“I know how much of a coward Bibi is, so I can rest assured that he won’t go on any adventures,” Diskin, a frequent critic of Netanyahu says, implying that the prime minister won’t purposefully start a war with Israel’s neighbors in order to save his own political skin.

“I feel that the country has lost its way,” Diskin says during a business conference in Tel Aviv. “It has become very populist, without direction, vision and ideology, and its leadership is utterly lacking in personal example.”