Wrong and dangerous, says Meir Dagan, who for eight years until January headed Mossad, Israel's foreign-intelligence service.
In press interviews, Dagan stated that it would be disastrous for Israel to strike Iran's nuclear installations.
However, the former director of the Mossad spy agency, Meir Dagan, was cautious about an attack on Iran.
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Hanoch Dagan, the dean of Tel Aviv University Law School, protesting his decision to hire retiring IDF Col.
Dagan failed to note that it would be far more disastrous to allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons.
Dagan is in the midst of an unprecedented, arguably illegal and certainly unseemly campaign to delegitimize Prime Minister Binyamin Netayahu.
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It seems strange that, in the midst of this offensive, Dagan would divert his attention to the Ofer Brothers Shipping woes.
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They want Meir Dagan (pictured above), now into his eighth year as Mossad's head, to make way for a younger man.
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Second, it strikes me as odd that former Mossad chief Meir Dagan felt compelled to issue an impassioned defense of the Ofer Brothers Shipping company.
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In the end, after Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert defended her, Dagan stood by his decision to bring her onto the faculty.
General Dagan says that Gabi Ashkenazi, who headed the armed forces, and Yuval Diskin, who until last month ran the internal-intelligence service, the Shin Bet, both agree with him.
The shootout, created by former Israeli referee Yosef Dagan after Israel lost a tied, 1968 Olympic quarterfinal by drawing lots, reduces soccer to its most basic component: Kicking a ball into the net.
The orders were later withdrawn in the face of opposition from two top security officials at the time - chief-of-staff Lt Gen Gabi Ashkenazi and the head of the intelligence service, Mossad, Meir Dagan.
Dr Dagan said day care centres are ideal environments for the development of such resistance because they are associated with a high rate of respiratory infections that leads to a high rate of antibiotic use.
According to the programme Gen Ashkenazi considered such an attack on Iran, "a strategic mistake" because of the risk of a war, while Mr Dagan deemed it "illegal", saying a full cabinet decision was needed.
Dr Fox was asked by Tory Richard Harrington about recent comments by Meir Dagan, the former head of Israeli spy agency Mossad, who claimed Iran could have its first nuclear weapon by the middle of this decade.
Much may depend on Mr Dagan's succession.
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