JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Shin Bet leader Ronen Bar said Sunday said the security agency has concluded that Israel’s political instability and internal discord encourage terror groups and individuals to commit attacks.
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“From the intelligence that we have read, from the interrogations of attackers we have conducted, and also from many years of familiarity with our adversaries, wherever they are, we can say today without a shadow of a doubt that the political instability, the growing internal strife… are an encouragement to the axis of evil, to the terror organizations and individual attackers,” Bar said at a conference at Herzliya’s Reichman University.
He added that the “deep rift developing within Israeli society” is the “most complex” challenge it is facing.
“The prevailing feeling among our adversaries is that our historical advantage, our national resilience, is fading,” Bar warned.
“This insight should trouble us more than anything else. In this matter the Shin Bet can only warn, it certainly cannot deal with it,” he said. “It is in the hands of each and every one of us.”
Israel has been thrown into political turmoil over the last three years, since an election in 2019 failed to conclusively decide between the right and left wing and left Prime Minister Netanyahu as caretaker prime minister during 3 additional elections which took place over the next two years. After the election in March 2021, Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid established a government together with left-wing parties and the Arab Ra’am party but the government fell after just a year and new elections are slated for November 1st, the fifth since 2019.
Why is this news? WHen people here attack their fellow Jews, they are doing the work of the terrorists.