A former Mossad chief has warned that Israel is on the brink of civil war, and has urged the government to take steps to counter any potential uprising before time runs out. Tamir Pardo’s warning is the first public remarks he has made since stepping down as the spy agency’s director in January 2016. He told a press conference that “the internal threat must worry us more than the external threat,” indicating that the people of Israel are feeling extremely dissatisfied with their leaders. Timesofisrael.com reports: “The internal threat must worry us more than the external threat,” he told a press conference in the northern Druze town of Daliyat al-Carmel. “If a divided society goes beyond a certain point, you can end up, in extreme circumstances, with phenomena like civil war. To my regret, the distance [until we reach that point] is shrinking. I fear that we are going in that direction,” Pardo said. There was more to unite than divide, Pardo told reporters, as he promoted an event next month to commemorate fallen soldiers from the Druze community. But, he added, some people in Israel sought the intensity that came with division, and “there are some for whom it’s comfortable to emphasize that which divides [...]
