Deputy Minister Ayoub Kara on Sunday slammed former Shabak head Yuval Diskin for his comments on the government's Iran policy. Kara said that the comments by Diskin, as well as by former Mossad head Meir Dagan, against the government that they had until recently worked for was “a direct challenge to the rule of law in Israel.” Kara added that he would demand that the government increase the “cooling off period” in which politicians and government officials who resign or leave their posts would be forbidden from commenting on politics in public, “which endangers the future of Israel.”
At a forum over the weekend, Diskin accused Defense Minister Barak and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of preparing Israelis for a “messianic war” against Iran. “The man from the Akirov Towers in Tel Aviv, and the man from the Rehavia neighborhood in Jerusalem and Caesarea are not the messiahs,” Diskin said, referring respectively to Barak's and Netanyahu's places of residence.