(IsraelNN.com) Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz was severely criticized by Knesset members over a false report of an agreement he claimed was reached with the Palestinian Authority over the security arrangements at the Rafiach border crossing between Gaza and Egypt. Today, it was revealed to the members of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that the agreement they were shown by Mofaz was not signed by the Arab side, and was merely a draft presented by Israel to American interlocutors.
Committee chairman Yuval Shteinitz (Likud) said at the meeting: "The dishonest misrepresentation of Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz in presenting the nonexistent 'crossings agreement' to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee throws a heavy shadow over his fitness to serve as defense minister in the State of Israel. This is the most serious case of misleading the Knesset in matters of foreign policy and defense in recent years."
Israelis, much like Canadians, obviously have trust issues with their leadership but the difference lies when a public official in Canada betrays the public trust and purse; it does not translate into the potential death of innocent lives. Small mercies, I suppose.
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