250 ex-Mossad members sign letter criticizing Netanyahu’s stance on hostages
April 14, 2025 5 Comments
OVER 250 FORMER MEMBERS of the Mossad, Israel’s external spy agency, have drafted an open letter criticizing the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and warning that they will “not continue to stand by”. The letter campaign is reportedly led by former senior Mossad official Gail Shoresh and renowned hostage negotiator David Meidan. It comes in the heels of similar letters issued last week by Israel Air Force active service personnel and veterans, and by former members of Unit 8200—the cyber and signals intelligence branch of the Israel Defense Forces.
The letter is signed by dozens of former Mossad department heads and deputy department heads, one former deputy director, and three former directors: Tamir Pardo, Efraim Halevy and Danni Yatom. It openly criticizes the administration of Prime Minister Netanyahu for prioritizing the war against Hamas over the lives of 59 Israeli hostages, who are believed to remain captive by the militant Palestinian organization in the Gaza Strip. It also calls on Israeli officials to “make brave decisions and act responsibly for the security of the country and its citizens”.
The letter claims to voice the views of “Mossad and special services veterans, who have dedicated many years to safeguarding the country’s security”. It lambasts the Netanyahu government for refusing to negotiate with Hamas to secure the release of the Israeli hostages, and warns that Mossad and special services veterans “will not continue to stand by” any longer. It also expresses “full support” for an earlier letter written by Israel Air Force pilots, some of whom were subsequently dismissed form the service for criticizing the government.
The letter by the ex-Mossad service members shares the authors’ “deep concern for the future of the country” and calls for Prime Minister Netanyahu “to act immediately to reach an agreement to return all 59 abductees home, without delay, even at the cost of ceasing fighting.” It concludes with a direct message to the embattled Netanyahu: “The sanctity of life, Mr. Prime Minister, takes precedence over ‘God of Revenge’”.
► Author: Joseph Fitsanakis | Date: 14 April 2025 | Permalink
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The fact that Bubu don’t give a damn about hostages, I knew 4 months after 07.10.23. He is secured in his high office and there is not a shredd of evidence he’ll leave before the end. He will also decide the next president. The future is bleak, too, because of the birth rate …
Is this the Mossad that failed to anticipate the attack? Just checking. I note you mention “ex”-Mossad. I though there were no ex-Marines nor Mossad members.
For lack of guidance a nation falls,
but victory is won through many advisers.
Proverbs 11 -14
So Netanyahu realises if peace breaks out he would have to face such fates as no-confidence votes, loss of prime ministership, elections and finally risking charges of corruption against him.
The last issue relates to fitness to rule of an on again off again national leader. This is treated seriously in Israel, though not in all countries, such as dictatorships and failing democracies.
I find it odd how a former senior Mossad official, and a renowned hostage negotiator can can be taken seriously in Israel’s bias media… Shoresh has been poking his head out and attacking Netanyahu every six or so months, every since being removed at Mossad… If anything, these two so called officials are playing right into Hamas hands, and you would think a former negotiator would know this as well…
History is full of lessons these two officials didn’t learn… Sad really, that Israel’s media hasn’t learned from history. Those who don’t learn, only forced to repeat. Netanyahu clearly has advisers who have learned these lessons well, and we have what we have in Gaza today…
One is better off hitting one self with a brick, then attempt to negotiate with Hamas, they will milk it for all it’s worth and just drag it out and play victim to the world…
In the 80’s hijacking airliners, 90’s blowing up buses, crossings, and buildings with suicide boomers. History is an amazing thing, and Reagan proved how to deal with hijackings, with shooting the tires out and forcing the terrorist to end the madness. You can’t negotiate with these monsters. Giving a 1000 prisoners for a hand full of Israelis hostages is asking history to repeat itself, again.
The leadership with in these terror networks use this to recruit donors and more terrorist. The day they are removed, the day history stops repeating itself… It’s really that simple. Now, it way past time the world removes the terror support system, Iran Leadership.
What Shoresh and Meidan need to understand, they were not elected to run the country, but Netanyahu was, and there is good reason they are former… If only the bias media could learn from history…
J Gilbert
Why does the UN continue the Catholic and Protestant Church Middle Ages clap-trap which dictated and monopolized who can read and how readers can interpret the Bible?
A question about Gaza: If these Arab refugees – according to UNWRA – how can Europe and Obama equate Israel and Palestine as equal States? Buggery and whoredom parade in church robes — the UN’s anti-Israel saints revealed as Nazi whores at the altar.
1. Impact on Palestinians lives – a non starter b/c Palestinian refugees have no more rights than did Jewish refugees in ghetto gulags. Palestinian suffering, a weaponized inheritance through UNWRA, while Jewish post WWII refugee suffering utterly erased. 2. Two-State Solution viability only valid if 242 and 2334 valid Resolutions. You have not shown how either qualify as valid UN Resolutions. Since both exist as Chapter VI and not Chapter VII, neither qualify as international law. In fact both compare to the invalid 3379 Resolution; both qualify as revisionist history which pretends to turn the clock back where Arabs accept and embrace UN 181. 3. Role of International Aid. A strong point, such “aid” by UNWRA compares to the British opium trade forced upon China during the 19th Century. 4. International Law and Norms: The UN Chapter VI Resolutions does not write nor enforces “international law”. Only treaties signed by Independent States forge international law. A Chapter VII Resolution which demanded North Korea withdraw back to the 38th parallel – herein constitutes “international law”.
The US, especially under President Trump, but even under President Biden, an ally of the Jewish state! UN Resolution 3379, for example has nothing to do with the failure of the UN to force the Arab voting blocks to recognize Israel as a member-State of the Middle East – not an Apartheid policy?
Only Israel treated in this manner. UN Human Rights Council Resolution 7/1, often referred to as item #7, addresses the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, specifically focusing on Israel’s actions. This resolution mandates that the UN Human Rights Council conduct an annual investigation into Israeli violations of human rights in these territories. Only Israel targeted in this disproportionate manner. That’s not Apartheid at the UN?
Have introduced two examples of “Nazi like” behavior. In 2018, under President Trump, the U.S. announced its withdrawal from the UNHRC, citing concerns about the council’s effectiveness and its alleged bias. The U.S. government has also called for reforms within the council to improve its credibility and effectiveness in addressing human rights issues globally. Nations that hold no diplomatic relations with Israel should not have the UN Right to publicly condemn Israel. Not in the Human Rights Council nor in the UN General Assembly.
This makes the US completely relevant to the strong emotional objection: “enough of this Nazi like propaganda”. The issue of recognition of Israel by Arab nations and the dynamics of voting blocs in the United Nations and other international forums … The U.S. has historically supported Israel and has encouraged Arab nations to normalize relations with it.
Arab nations have often cited Resolution 242 as a basis for their refusal to recognize Israel, arguing that it requires Israel to withdraw from all occupied territories, including the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, as a prerequisite for peace. Britain and France, the main architects behind the writing of the Chapter VI language of UN Resolution 242. Only Chapter VII UN Resolutions qualify as “international law”. Propaganda blurs Chapter VI suggestions (comparable to a bill presented unto Congress) with Chapter VII laws passed by Congress. Therefore this EU Voting block sides with the Arab refusal not to recognize Israel as part of the Middle East voting block of nations. Consequently the invalid UN Resolution 242 and 2334 both function as morality politics so utterly corrupt that it would make a prostitute in church blush.
Recall that LBJ – preoccupied by the Vietnam War, compares to Putin in the Ukraine today. The Trump Abraham Accords challenges the validity of UN 242 together with its top-priority status, established by Britain and French hostile propaganda. These fallen empires long to restore their political domination over the Middle Eastern trading routes. European imperialism as a strategic policy, exposed by the Suez Crisis of the 1956 War.
The Abraham Accords represent a significant shift in Middle Eastern diplomacy, it rejects the biased slant of British/French 242. The Abraham Accords 180°, a total rejection of the invalid 242/2334 – 3379 UN racism. President Trump established normalization agreements between Israel and several Arab nations, including the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain. These accords, serve as a opposing departure from the traditional Arab consensus that condemned normalization with Israel. Which made any peace treaty with Israel, absolutely contingent upon progress in resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, particularly in relation to the false principles outlined in UN Security Council Resolution 242.
The U.S., under Trump’s leadership, positioned the Accords as a way to foster cooperation among nations in the Middle East, potentially leading to broader peace initiatives. Most Arab states view the Trump Accords as undermining British and French written 242, just as both the US and USSR rejected British/French imperialism to seize the Suez Canal from Nasser’s Egypt.
Contrast the Trump Abraham Accords against corrupt Obama’s UN Resolution 2334. President Trump prioritizes Arab states recognition of Israel as the top priority. Whereas corrupt Obama’s 2334 prioritizes Israeli recognition of a Palestinian state and Eastern Jerusalem as its Capital as the top priority, to achieve peace in the Middle East. Hence UN Resolutions 242 & 2334 compare to the contempt expressed by Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dumb nursery rhyme and how it frames both the UN and Obama into the same picture.
The Trump administration’s approach, seen as pragmatic. It prioritizes establishment of diplomatic relations between nation states – over the historical and legal frameworks that have traditional 242, 2334, 3379 invalid and utterly corrupt UN Resolutions which have shaped the Israeli-Palestinian conflict prior to the leadership of President Trump.
UN Resolution 2334 emphasizes the need for a negotiated settlement that recognizes Palestinian statehood, including East Jerusalem as its capital. The resolution reaffirms the 242 international consensus that a two-state solution absolutely essential for lasting peace. Obama thus treated Israel as a UN protectorate territory, wherein imaginary (chapter VI) “International Law”, Resolutions 242, 2334, 3379 – not only invalidates Balfour Treaty Zionism but determines the borders and Capital of the Jewish State, as if Israel remained a 1947 UN protectorate territory whose fate the Peel Commission determined.
But the Abraham Accords flipped the narrative. President Trump now demands that Arab states permit Israel to join the Middle East voting block in the UN and disband the UN Human Rights Council on par with the corrupt UNWRA – which buggered the Palestinian refugee crisis and perverted it into a permanent hereditary UN established homosexual perversion. The Arab majority States rejection of the Abraham Accords establishes an Arab EU alliance against both the US & Israel based upon UN 242 & Obama’s 2334 Global Alliance.
Arabs Palestinians exist as refugees according to UNWRA. But based upon the three century Jewish gulag ghetto experience, refugees have no “Rights”. Yet according to the terms of UN propaganda, the perverted concept of “Palestinian rights” amazingly encompasses a range of issues: including the right to self-determination, the right to return to their homes, and the right to live in dignity and security; such rights neither the Catholic nor Protestant dominated governments accorded to Jewish refugee populations in the 2000+ years which culminated in the Shoah. The “heroin” of Arab propaganda injected into the veins of the anti-Israel UN voting blocks, utterly condemns the Jewish state especially since the Nakba ’48 defeat.
These imaginary rights, recognized by and through various “international” legal frameworks and UN Resolutions – with a morality as dubious as a whore in church, include UN General Assembly resolutions and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights! The plights of Jews for 2000+ years, where Jewish refugee populations received no rights, serves as the basis & model for Palestinians rights today? Buggery!
Arab states in 1948 flat out rejected Jewish rights to self-determination, the foundation of Zionism based upon the Balfour Declaration. Like priests who entered synagogues and preached conversion to Jews, Arab scream: “Palestinian Rights!” And the Papal Bull UN bias declares its unilateral support for these absolute Palestinian rights … in the face of pre-Shoah Jews whom “international law” ignored their rights.
Israel excluded from the Arab Middle East voting block, and UN HRC item #7 continually denounces the illegal occupation of Palestinian lands. No Palestinian state ever established by either Egypt in Gaza or Jordan in the West Bank. Therefore, “Enough of this Nazi-like propaganda”.
All Arab states rejected the legitimacy of the Jewish state in 1948. Post ’67 came the famous Khartoum Resolution Three No’s. The phrase “Nazi-like propaganda” serves as a strong and charged declaration that reflects the Jewish People of Israel’s deep frustration and anger regarding the narratives surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict foisted by the press upon shallow reactionary audiences across the world. This public blood libel slander has its consequences.
When Israel declared independence on May 14, 1948, on that same exact day, Arab Armies the newly born state of Israel. Jews of the Middle East fought and won our first war of National Independence. Arab war cries of “throw the Jews into the Sea”, and “Finish the Final Solution”, pushed Jews back against a wall. Arab stated absolutely rejected the establishment of a Jewish state in their self-proclaimed “Arab land”.
Hence Arab voting blocks refuse to recognize Israel as a state in the Middle East! This exploded into the Arab-Israeli War of 1948, followed up with the 2nd Israeli War of Independence in 1967. This Nazi-like racial Arab hatred of dhimmi Jews resulted in significant displacements of more Jewish refugees expelled from Arab countries than Arab refugees, who fled based upon the orders issued by the States of the 5 invading Arab Armies.
Yet UN General Assembly and Human Rights Commission propaganda continually condemns Israel over the horrors Arab refugees experience, but never – not even once – demands that the 22 Arab countries repatriate their Arab refugee populations as did Israel with our Jewish refugees of ’48. The Apartheid UN recognition of Palestine as a UN member reflects an utter racist Nazi like superior race jargon, used repeatedly against the inferior Jewish state/UN protectorate territory revisionist history.
The UN under Obama’s watch recognized Palestine as a non-member observer state status. This directly compares to the influence of the Vatican in the UN. In point of fact, the UN serves as a secular medieval Vatican Papal Bull. Rome ordered that Jews of Europe, thrown and expelled into ghetto gulags for 3 Centuries. Morality politics defines both the UN today and the Catholic Church during the Middle Ages.
The UN, like the Vatican in the past, strives through rhetoric propaganda Resolutions to impose moral judgments, or decisions & declarations – that have significant consequences directed and targeted against specific Jewish groups: Israelis. In this condemned category; the Jewish people have a long history. Directly subjugated by the Catholic church, prior to the Protestant Reformation. Therefore the concept of “morality politics”, Jews understand that it refers to the ways in which moral arguments & rhetoric, used by Jew haters to shape political decisions and policies. Had Arab Armies prevailed in either ’48 or ’67 the Arabs would have unilaterally expelled the Jews from the Middle East and the UN would express its silence like crickets singing in the night.
In the context of the UN and the so called, ever repeated Israeli-Palestinian propaganda conflict, this ever repeated hate rhetoric &/or narratives, compare to gasoline thrown onto a pre-existing fire. They serve to inflame emotions, arousing demands for justice, palestinian rights, and other non-specified “historical grievances” invoked as evidence of a strong ‘international’, meaning UN, bias against the Jewish people. The recent University marches across the US and Europe: From the River to the Sea Palestine will be free. Shallow reactionary liberty and flower children, utterly shocked when the Trump Administration deported the leaders of these pogrom-like riots across US Universities.
The Obama 2334 revisionist history racism, which equates, as does UN Resolution 242, Israel and Palestine as “equal States”; utter Nazi-like propaganda, used to justify the 1939 invasion of Poland. 242’s calls for a negotiated settlement to the “conflict”, stands upon the corrupt foundation that the Jewish state and the Palestinian state stands as equals. That the Jewish state has a conflict with Arab refugee populations any more than Jordan on Black September had a “conflict” with Palestinian refugee populations. Utter UN racism! A State vs. refugees – not a “conflict” because refugees do not have a standing Army as does a nation state.
The Jewish state does not compare to the mobs of Palestinian refugees who – based upon Jews living in European ghetto gulags – had no rights. 242 calls for the withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied during the “conflict”. As if the June War pitted Palestinian Armies against Jewish Armies! This pius UN Resolution, dressed in the white robes of righteousness, utterly ignores the historical fact that Poland and Russia both partition of Prussia between themselves, post WWII.
The UN, the EU, and Arab states continue their long tradition of using “morality politics” to persecute the Jewish people. Resolutions like: 242 & 2334, Item 7, and Palestine’s observer status, serve as primary modern tools of UN racial bias against the Jewish state. Trump’s Abraham Accords serves as the first major breach in this utterly corrupt UN system since 1967. The Abraham Accords have exposed the naked racism butt of Obama’s policies which sought reimpose the old antisemitic paradigm of the Catholic and Protestant Dark Ages – monopoly over who reads and interprets the Bible. A Nazi-faced whore defiles the altar — the true face of the UN’s pious anti-Israel moralists exposed in filth and betrayal.