If Bennett doesn't tell, Mossad operation will be a failure - analysis

• Author: YONAH JEREMY BOB
• Published date: 04 October 2021
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

But regardless of what actually happened, if Bennett does not reveal some concrete partial success, and soon, it will be recorded in history as a failure.

Already, sources within the Mossad and the broader defense establishment have called the operation daring, but a failure and have slammed Bennett for publicizing the operation.

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Bennett's predecessor, Benjamin Netanyahu, was known for outing the Mossad more often than any prime minister in history.

He was criticized for this by four living former Mossad chiefs.

But when Netanyahu did publicize Mossad's heist of Iran's nuclear archives on April 30, 2018, he had kept the operation secret for three months in order to only present it to the world once he had significant substance to share.

The impression Bennett has given to date through his vague announcement and his just as vague push back that the operation "attained its goals," is that he simply wanted to say the words Mossad out loud and look prime ministerial like his predecessor Netanyahu.

Hopefully, this is not the case and Bennett will have more to share.

If he does, and does it soon, he can set the record straight.

However, if he does not, he will have violated one of his cardinal principles for the new government: returning governing to normal.

Normal for the Mossad is being in the shadows.

It is not being used as a political football.

Normal means achieving missions that no one finds out about until after the operations people are...