In Bid to Repair Mr. Security Image, Netanyahu Lets Secret Slip - Israel News - Haaretz
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Until now, we thought Israel was sticking to a policy of ambiguity, silence and no comment, so as not to humiliate Syrian President Assad publicly and thus provoke him into retaliating. The members of the security cabinet, too, were surprised to discover from the media that this “hush-hush” matter, as one of them put it this week, was now public knowledge. “For years, we’ve been told that silence on these issues is critical, and suddenly, like nothing, it’s out there,” said one security cabinet minister who asked not to be named.
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Some ministers conclude that Netanyahu has embarked on a political damage-control operation to repair the battering his security image took on the issue of the soldier who shot a wounded Palestinian in Hebron last month.