Ronen Bar's battle is for us, we must all stand behind him - opinion

In the 17 and a half years that Benjamin Netanyahu has served as prime minister, dozens upon dozens of senior security officials have served under him — chiefs of staff, Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) heads, Mossad heads, military Intelligence chiefs, National Security Council heads, and senior officers at the rank of major general across various branches and organizations. 

As someone who has followed Netanyahu's conduct closely, I can state that almost all of them — somewhere between 100 and 200 senior security officials — agree with the chilling diagnosis provided on Monday by Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar regarding the functioning, motives, and actions of the man who is trying to turn Israel into a dictatorship.

Remember the “Look me in the eye, Bibi," statement made by Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai in 1999? Or Ami Ayalon and Israel Hasson during the events regarding the opening of the Western Wall tunnel and negotiations with Yasser Arafat? 

You can count them: Yitzhak Mordechai, Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Shaul Mofaz, Moshe Ya’alon, Gabi Ashkenazi, Benny Gantz, Gadi Eisenkot, Naftali Bennett and Avigdor Liberman. And the list goes on — long, diverse, and filled with names and stories. 

Almost all of them share one thing - they are familiar with the pheno...
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