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Titolo: Former Shin Bet chief: Netanyahu not interested in peace talks

“Forget the stories they tell you about how Abbas is not interested in 
negotiation,” said Diskin, adding, “We are not talking to the 
Palestinians because this government has no interest in negotiations."
 
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Published 16:04 28.04.12 Latest update 16:04 28.04.12
 
Former Shin Bet chief: Netanyahu not interested in peace talks
Yuval Diskin, who was quoted earlier as saying he didn't trust PM, Barak 
on Iran, says Netanyahu knows that if he makes the slightest move 
forward, his coalition will 'fall apart.'
 
The harsh criticism sounded by former Shin Bet head Yuval Diskin against 
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the issue of Iran on Friday were 
only the tip of the iceberg.
 
During the same speech in the “Majdi Forum” in Kfar Saba, Diskin blamed 
Netanyahu, not Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, for the freeze in 
the peace process.
 
“Forget the stories they tell you about how Abbas is not interested in 
negotiation,” said Diskin, adding, “We are not talking to the 
Palestinians because this government has no interest in negotiations."
 
The former Shin Bet chief added, "I was there up to a year ago and I 
know from up-close what is happening. This government is not interested 
in solving anything with the Palestinians, and I say this certainty,” he 
added.
 
Diskin pointed the finger at Netanyahu. “This prime minister knows that 
if he makes the slightest move forward, then his well-established rule 
and his coalition will fall apart."
 
"It’s simple,” he said, “Thus, no one has any interest in changing the 
situation. Abbas made mistakes, but this is beside the point. We as a 
people have an interest in this, but not this government. The problem 
becomes more difficult with every pass
 
Diskin’s criticism of Netanyahu over the Palestinian issue is even more 
significant than his declarations over the Iranian issue. The reason for 
this is that the Shin Bet is the body responsible for the Palestinian 
issue on both the political and security-related levels, whereas the 
issue of a nuclear Iran falls under the Mossad’s area of expertise as 
well as that of Israel Defense Forces' intelligence unit.
 
Diskin also warned that a “feeling of hopelessness” was developing among 
the Palestinians. He further stated that he was in contact with senior 
officials in the Palestinian Authority who tell him about “the lack of 
faith that something will change, especially in the West Bank.”
 
"In this kind of situation, when the concentration of gas fumes in the 
air is so high, the question is only when the spark will come to light 
it," he said, adding: "It won't happen tomorrow morning… but all the 
basic elements to allow it are there."
 
Diskin also referred to last summer's wave of social protests, indicated 
that part of the unrest was prompted by the weakening of the Israeli 
government's control, saying that "control over what is happening beyond 
Gedera and Hadera [Israel's center] is weak" both in "the Jewish respect 
and in the Arab one."
 
According to the former Shin Bet chief, the protest was prompted by real 
and just reasons, adding, however that those who led it weren't ready to 
pay a personal price in order to achieve their goals."
 
"What's the difference between the, quote-unquote, revolutionists in 
Rothschild Boulevard and those in Tahrir Square?" he asked, answering 
that there was a "small, but significant difference – the people in 
Tahrir Square were willing to pay the price, and the people in 
Rothschild Boulevard didn't really."
 
Diskin added that as "soon as the festival season was over and all the 
singers were done, as soon as the people were done taking a dump in the 
backyards of their neighbors in Rothschild, the summer was over and they 
went back to university."
 
"In Tahrir Square people paid a price for their principles. If that 
doesn't happen here, all this social justice thing will be another 
summer festival in Israel. I think that the people who led it, most of 
them, aren't really willing to pay a price for it," he said.
 
In a previously published portion of his Friday comments, Diskin said 
that he had "no faith in the current leadership, which would lead us in 
the event of war with Iran, or a regional war."
 
"I don't believe in either the prime minister or the defense minister. I 
don't believe in a leadership that makes decisions based on messianic 
feelings," he added.
 
Diskin deemed Barak and Netanyahu "two messianics – the one from Akirov 
or the Assuta project and the other from Gaza Street or Caesarea," he 
said, referring to the two politicians' places of residence.
 
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