Shin Bet `failed to prevent' Jewish terror

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Shin Bet `failed to prevent’ Jewish terror

Screw them – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – By Amos Harel http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/627742.html Shin Bet head Yuval Diskin said yesterday that he viewed the two Jewish terror attacks carried out during the disengagement period, in which a total of eight Arabs were killed, as a failure on the part of the security service. On August 4, Eden Natan-Zada, a Jewish soldier who defected from the Israel Defense Forces to protest the disengagement plan, shot dead four Israeli Arabs in the northern town of Shfaram. On August 17, Asher Weisgan, a resident of the West Bank settlement of Shiloh, opened fire on Palestinian coworkers, killing four. Diskin said both terrorists acted on their own and had not told anyone of their plans. Natan-Zada even misled his close friends, telling them on the day of the attack that he was heading for Gush Katif, said Diskin. He said an internal Shin Bet investigation revealed the agency had made a "judgment error" by failing to recommend that Natan-Zada not be drafted, given his ties to the outlawed extreme-right Kach movement. "I will not shirk our responsibility," Diskin said. "There is clearly a failure in the information transfer interface between us and the army." However, Diskin insisted that the extent to which the Shin Bet attempts to curb free _expression must remain limited. "We won’t be the thought police," he said. "It would be a mistake for us to start preventing every youth from Gush Katif who stood near the synagogue in Kfar Darom from joining the [elite] Egoz unit." Diskin also said the Shin Bet does not know of any concrete plans to attack Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, but that the Shin Bet has not changed its assessment regarding the serious threat to his life and has not lessened the protection it accords the premier. The Shin Bet chief also called on the state to demonstrate understanding toward the evacuees from Gaza and the northern West Bank, saying that the level of violence during the disengagement was low. "The state must not push this population into a corner," he said, adding that he was uncomfortable when he saw media reports that described the army’s evacuation of the settlers as a victory "in the style of the Six-Day War." "The other side of the conflict wasn’t Hamas or Islamic Jihad, but Israeli citizens," said Diskin. "Even the incident on the roof of the synagogue in Kfar Darom would not have taken place without the media." Friends of Al Aqsa is a voluntary organisation concerned with the defence of Al Aqsa Haram Sharif and the protection of Palestinian Human Rights. http://www.aqsa.org.uk

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Shin Bet `failed to prevent’ Jewish terror By Amos Harel http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/627742.html Shin Bet head Yuval Diskin said yesterday that he viewed the two Jewish terror attacks carried out during the disengagement period, in which a total of eight Arabs were killed, as a failure on the part of the security service. On August 4, Eden Natan-Zada, a Jewish soldier who defected from the Israel Defense Forces to protest the disengagement plan, shot dead four Israeli Arabs in the northern town of Shfaram. On August 17, Asher Weisgan, a resident of the West Bank settlement of Shiloh, opened fire on Palestinian coworkers, killing four. Diskin said both terrorists acted on their own and had not told anyone of their plans. Natan-Zada even misled his close friends, telling them on the day of the attack that he was heading for Gush Katif, said Diskin. He said an internal Shin Bet investigation revealed the agency had made a "judgment error" by failing to recommend that Natan-Zada not be drafted, given his ties to the outlawed extreme-right Kach movement. "I will not shirk our responsibility," Diskin said. "There is clearly a failure in the information transfer interface between us and the army." However, Diskin insisted that the extent to which the Shin Bet attempts to curb free _expression must remain limited. "We won’t be the thought police," he said. "It would be a mistake for us to start preventing every youth from Gush Katif who stood near the synagogue in Kfar Darom from joining the [elite] Egoz unit." Diskin also said the Shin Bet does not know of any concrete plans to attack Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, but that the Shin Bet has not changed its assessment regarding the serious threat to his life and has not lessened the protection it accords the premier. The Shin Bet chief also called on the state to demonstrate understanding toward the evacuees from Gaza and the northern West Bank, saying that the level of violence during the disengagement was low. "The state must not push this population into a corner," he said, adding that he was uncomfortable when he saw media reports that described the army’s evacuation of the settlers as a victory "in the style of the Six-Day War." "The other side of the conflict wasn’t Hamas or Islamic Jihad, but Israeli citizens," said Diskin. "Even the incident on the roof of the synagogue in Kfar Darom would not have taken place without the media." Friends of Al Aqsa is a voluntary organisation concerned with the defence of Al Aqsa Haram Sharif and the protection of Palestinian Human Rights. http://www.aqsa.org.uk

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Shin Bet `failed to prevent’ Jewish terror By Amos Harel http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/627742.html Shin Bet head Yuval Diskin said yesterday that he viewed the two Jewish terror attacks carried out during the disengagement period, in which a total of eight Arabs were killed, as a failure on the part of the security service. On August 4, Eden Natan-Zada, a Jewish soldier who defected from the Israel Defense Forces to protest the disengagement plan, shot dead four Israeli Arabs in the northern town of Shfaram. On August 17, Asher Weisgan, a resident of the West Bank settlement of Shiloh, opened fire on Palestinian coworkers, killing four. Diskin said both terrorists acted on their own and had not told anyone of their plans. Natan-Zada even misled his close friends, telling them on the day of the attack that he was heading for Gush Katif, said Diskin. He said an internal Shin Bet investigation revealed the agency had made a "judgment error" by failing to recommend that Natan-Zada not be drafted, given his ties to the outlawed extreme-right Kach movement. "I will not shirk our responsibility," Diskin said. "There is clearly a failure in the information transfer interface between us and the army." However, Diskin insisted that the extent to which the Shin Bet attempts to curb free _expression must remain limited. "We won’t be the thought police," he said. "It would be a mistake for us to start preventing every youth from Gush Katif who stood near the synagogue in Kfar Darom from joining the [elite] Egoz unit." Diskin also said the Shin Bet does not know of any concrete plans to attack Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, but that the Shin Bet has not changed its assessment regarding the serious threat to his life and has not lessened the protection it accords the premier. The Shin Bet chief also called on the state to demonstrate understanding toward the evacuees from Gaza and the northern West Bank, saying that the level of violence during the disengagement was low. "The state must not push this population into a corner," he said, adding that he was uncomfortable when he saw media reports that described the army’s evacuation of the settlers as a victory "in the style of the Six-Day War." "The other side of the conflict wasn’t Hamas or Islamic Jihad, but Israeli citizens," said Diskin. "Even the incident on the roof of the synagogue in Kfar Darom would not have taken place without the media." Friends of Al Aqsa is a voluntary organisation concerned with the defence of Al Aqsa Haram Sharif and the protection of Palestinian Human Rights. http://www.aqsa.org.uk

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Shin Bet `failed to prevent’ Jewish terror By Amos Harel http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/627742.html Shin Bet head Yuval Diskin said yesterday that he viewed the two Jewish terror attacks carried out during the disengagement period, in which a total of eight Arabs were killed, as a failure on the part of the security service. On August 4, Eden Natan-Zada, a Jewish soldier who defected from the Israel Defense Forces to protest the disengagement plan, shot dead four Israeli Arabs in the northern town of Shfaram. On August 17, Asher Weisgan, a resident of the West Bank settlement of Shiloh, opened fire on Palestinian coworkers, killing four. Diskin said both terrorists acted on their own and had not told anyone of their plans. Natan-Zada even misled his close friends, telling them on the day of the attack that he was heading for Gush Katif, said Diskin. He said an internal Shin Bet investigation revealed the agency had made a "judgment error" by failing to recommend that Natan-Zada not be drafted, given his ties to the outlawed extreme-right Kach movement. "I will not shirk our responsibility," Diskin said. "There is clearly a failure in the information transfer interface between us and the army." However, Diskin insisted that the extent to which the Shin Bet attempts to curb free _expression must remain limited. "We won’t be the thought police," he said. "It would be a mistake for us to start preventing every youth from Gush Katif who stood near the synagogue in Kfar Darom from joining the [elite] Egoz unit." Diskin also said the Shin Bet does not know of any concrete plans to attack Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, but that the Shin Bet has not changed its assessment regarding the serious threat to his life and has not lessened the protection it accords the premier. The Shin Bet chief also called on the state to demonstrate understanding toward the evacuees from Gaza and the northern West Bank, saying that the level of violence during the disengagement was low. "The state must not push this population into a corner," he said, adding that he was uncomfortable when he saw media reports that described the army’s evacuation of the settlers as a victory "in the style of the Six-Day War." "The other side of the conflict wasn’t Hamas or Islamic Jihad, but Israeli citizens," said Diskin. "Even the incident on the roof of the synagogue in Kfar Darom would not have taken place without the media." Friends of Al Aqsa is a voluntary organisation concerned with the defence of Al Aqsa Haram Sharif and the protection of Palestinian Human Rights. http://www.aqsa.org.uk

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