The impression one often gets from reporting on Israel is that the country's elites share Netanyahu's neocon paranoia about Iran's nuclear capacity. But it seems increasingly clear that this is not the case. When the hawks' hawk, former Mossad head Meir Dagan is calling an attack on Iran "one of the stupidest ideas I’ve ever heard," and he is far from alone among former security chiefs, you know the country is as alive with dissent as it so often is.
Funny how we keep getting a different view in the US, where we are told we simply don't understand the psychology of the Israelis. Nope. We don't understand the traumatized psychology of Netanyahu. And that psyche may be far more like American neocons than sane Israeli defense and security chiefs. Here's hoping the calmer, saner voices prevail.
The Dish 