The Gatekeepers

Avraham Shalom:
Peri kept showing us this chart. How many people were caught? How many informers were there? How many attacks were prevented? How many weren't? The picture was always rosy, but it was point specific. There was no strategy, just tactics.

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Yuval Diskin:
As Head of the Shin Bet, you learn that politicians prefer binary options. They don't like having three or four options. They want you to tell them "Zero or one. Do it. Don't do it." As a commander, I find myself in situations that are different shades of gray.

Ami Ayalon:
I can prove to you that Hamas did not become more moderate after Sheikh Yassin was eliminated. I can prove to you that when we killed Abbas Musawi and Nasrallah took over instead, the security in Israel didn't really improve. That's why, when we deal, not with the one coming to kill us immediately, but with the person preaching, we are headed toward a place, which is forbidden by international law and basic justice poses huge question marks as to its ethics, but I'm talking as head of the Shin Bet. It's ineffective.

Avraham Shalom:
Gradually there was an increase... To put it cynically, luckily for us, terrorism increased. Why do I say that? Because now we had work and we stopped dealing with the Palestinian state. Understood? As soon as we stopped dealing with the Palestinian state and started dealing with terrorism, terror became more sophisticated. So did we. Suddenly we had a lot of work in Gaza and the West Bank, and overseas, too, so we forgot about the Palestinian issue.