Ex-Israeli General, Mossad Chief Decry “Misleading” Pro-Obama Video

International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, October 7, 2008

An American Jewish group is being accused by some of Israel’s leading military and intelligence veterans of releasing an on-line video on Sunday in which their recent comments on the problems confronting Israel are twisted to appear as endorsements of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama.

The video was put out by the Jewish Council for Education & Research (JCER), a non-profit organization that supports Obama’s presidential run, which hired an Israel film company to conduct interviews with a series of leading Israeli strategic thinkers.

In the video, several former IDF generals and intelligence chiefs speak of Obama as a “breath of fresh air” in comparison to current US President George W. Bush, and suggest Republican candidate Sen. John McCain will continue his failed policies in the Middle East.

But former head of the Mossad Ephraim Halevy and former IDF deputy chief of staff Maj.-Gen. Uzi Dayan accused the group of taking their words out of context, saying that when filmed they had been told that the issue at hand was the challenges facing the next man in the White House, and not that the film was aimed at endorsing Obama for president.

“It’s not only misleading, it was an interview about what the next president was going to have to deal with,” Dayan told The Jerusalem Post, “and to know that they used this interview and took [only] five seconds [of it], and put me in a list of people praising Barack Obama… It wasn’t about the campaign, it was about the political and security issues of the Middle East that the next president should be involved in.”

“I don’t want other people to interfere in our elections, and I must not interfere with the elections in the United States,” Dayan said, adding that to do so would be neither “ethical nor smart.”

Halevy, who appeared in the video praising the Democratic candidate, also said he had been misled. “I was interviewed for a documentary dealing with what issues the new American president must deal with regarding the Middle East,” Halevy told the Post. “I was asked about the candidates and was complimentary to both.”

But when asked about his opinion on who was more qualified to be president, Halevy said he had rejected the question. “I said that I thought it was inappropriate for an Israeli to advise Americans on who they should vote for, as it would be for them to advise Israelis on who we should vote for,” he said.

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October 7, 2008 | Filed Under Christians and Israel, Latest News, mossad 

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