“Former Shin Bet security service chief Yuval Diskin accuses Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak of harboring dangerous messianic illusions. Diskin and former Mossad chief Meir Dagan, both of whom recently spoke out against an Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, show that even the accomplished one-time leaders of the Shin Bet and Mossad can end up making damaging comments. They will do anything – including undermining their original objective – to make it seem illegitimate for the country’s elected leaders to follow through on the mandate to rule that was bestowed upon them by the voters.

We can infer from the arrogance exhibited by Diskin and Dagan that the right to rule is reserved for the level-headed elite of the security establishment – those who behave with equanimity, on the opposite end of the spectrum from those hasty messianic leaders. Instead of condemning this nondemocratic thinking, most of the media took the former security chiefs’ side.

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