- Avraham Shalom, the Shin Bet chief forced to resign in
the 1980s because of the Bus 300 affair, made an unprecedented TV appearance
Tuesday evening to tell Channel Two's Ilana Dayan that "if we can't
learn to trust one another, there will only be chaos here and nobody will
be able to live here."
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- Shalom, who gave his first newspaper interview last weekend
together with three other former Shin Bet chiefs, announcing in Yedioth
Ahronoth that he was signing the Ayalon-Nusseibeh petition, and warning
that Israel's "humiliation" of the Palestinians was no way to
fight terror, told Dayan that he was motivated to speak out because of
"the events and situation."
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- He said he is worried about what is happening to Israel
as a "conquering occupying nation. We've become professional occupiers,
not paying any attention to what is happening to the other side. I'm not
talking about the war on terror. I am talking about how we treat the other
side."
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- He said that "of course we should arrest the terrorists
... but there's no reason to make people strip at a checkpoint and there's
no reason to stop an ambulance carrying a pregnant woman about to give
birth.ä
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- He refused to give the current Shin Bet chief, Avi Dichter,
any advice on how to fight terror, but noted that "if we drop heavy
bombs on a house or send a missile or even an F-16 once or twice to kill
one person or two, that looks out of proportion. If we did the work more
secretly, we would have achieved results much more easily."
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- Asked if he believes the Palestinians enough to strike
a deal with them, Shalom said "We're two peoples living on the same
land and if we can't learn to trust one another, there will only be chaos
here and nobody will be able to live here."
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- http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/362198.html
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