Peretz tries to defend himself
"[Former] prime minister Olmert told me that apparently a deal was set and that Gilad will be released on Friday at four o'clock in the afternoon and it's done," Peretz said. "We expected to receive a message from Mubarak and we promised to release prisoners to Abu Mazen (PA President Mahmoud Abbas), but something blew up there."Okay folks, whom do you believe? A retired military intelligence colonel or a conniving politician who's trying to save his political career, but is such a moron that he doesn't know how to take the covers off his binoculars (see above). I go with the colonel.
Peretz said they continued to explore other negotiating options in the following months, even turning to high-level officials in the Hamas leadership in Syria.
"We didn't even hesitate to negotiate with officials in Syria - that went up to Khaled Mashaal. A month and a half after the kidnapping, we appointed a coordinator. We acted decisively to find a military option as if there were no negotiation, and conducted negotiations as if there were no military option."
Ultimately, Peretz blamed intelligence failures for precluding military actions to free Schalit.
Labels: Amir Peretz, Gilad Shalit, IDF, Ronen Cohen, terrorists for Gilad trade
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:48 AM
2 Comments:
I think he had a very picture looking through the binoculars. He saw Gilad coming from afar and he probably couldn't believe it. Yes he did look very smart. Then again he may have been looking inside of himself and was too busy noticing the world he was living in.
What a dork!
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