Moshe Karadi, who ended his tenure as police commisioner last week, said the eviction of Jews from the community of Amona in February 2006 was the biggest failure during his time as Israel's number one cop. He added that the results of the Amona operation "were not good for anyone - not for us the police, not for the people of Israel and not for the state of Israel."
In an interview with the Jerusalem Post, Karadi said that "in retrospect, the evacuation of Amona should have been carried out differently, and... police could have taken steps to reduce the tension at the scene."
"I think that both from an operational perspective, as well as from the perspective of maintaining dialogue... we could have managed things differently, and this is a lesson that we should learn," Karadi said, adding that "the results of the evacuation demand that we do soul-searching, both for us and for the local leadership."
In an interview with the Jerusalem Post, Karadi said that "in retrospect, the evacuation of Amona should have been carried out differently, and... police could have taken steps to reduce the tension at the scene."
"I think that both from an operational perspective, as well as from the perspective of maintaining dialogue... we could have managed things differently, and this is a lesson that we should learn," Karadi said, adding that "the results of the evacuation demand that we do soul-searching, both for us and for the local leadership."