Yuval Diskin
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Former Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) chief Yuval Diskin on Thursday attacked the Likud, Jewish Home and Yisrael Beytenu parties ahead of the March elections.

In a post on his Facebook page, Diskin warned that the three are “destructive” to Israel’s future.

"Each of us needs to ask himself whether he wants to continue down the current path to which we were led by the past right-wing governments, a path which is leading us into a bi-national state, deepening international isolation, the possibility of increasing international sanctions which would severely harm Israel, to growing extremist religion, to deepening racism, to increasing social inequalities, to further damage to the weak and to a lack of a future to our wonderful young people in Israel,” he wrote.

Diskin continued by saying that "the combination of the road to nowhere of Jewish Home, the no way of the Likud and the dangerous cynicism of Yisrael Beytenu is destructive to the country's future.”

“Anyone who agrees that this road leads us to a reality that endangers the very future of the nation and the state, should demand from parties in the moderate right (Kahlon?), the center and left in the state of Israel, to join forces while forging an agreement on a number of guidelines that they will undertake for their voters,” he added.

Diskin has already stated that he has no intention to run in the upcoming elections to the Knesset, despite rumors to the contrary, but that he does plan to be a part of overthrowing the Netanyahu government. 

"We must insist - and not accept any excuses - from the heads of center and left parties to put their egos aside, and unite around the goal to bring us to this road," Diskin wrote several weeks ago. 

"And if we see that one of them does not give up his/her ego - we will organize and ourselves and 'punish' him/her at the polls in the most obvious was possible," he added. 

"I plan to join forces in the near future with many good people I met working outside of the party system to help allow this to happen. I also call on everyone to be part of this effort."  

Since leaving office, Diskin has launched many verbal attacks against Netanyahu and his government. One such attack came last March, when the former Shin Bet chief accused the members of the coalition of "abandoning the country."

"The sane centrist (parties) are abandoning the country to a hollow party of the shallow right-wing (Likud), controlled by a band of extreme firebrands that signed a pact with the Yesh Atid party - which engraved on its flag 'equality of burden' and removed it from among us - and with the national religious Jewish Home party, in whose eyes unity of the land is more important than unity of the people," charged Diskin in a column in Yedioth Ahronoth.

Last December, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's office responded to Diskin's various verbal attacks by saying, "Netanyahu will not be affected by recycled statements or by righteous preaching arising from the personal frustration of someone who wanted to be appointed head of the Mossad by Netanyahu and did not get the position."

The response came after Diskin claimed there were "too many Jews" in Judea and Samaria for it to be handed over to the Palestinian Authority (PA), calling on Israel to be a country "which prefers the sanctity of its people over the sanctity of its land," and which "does not feel it has to occupy others' land."