Yehoshua Saguy
Yehoshua Saguy was the chief of military intelligence in Israel.
Yehoshua Saguy was the chief of military intelligence in Israel. He opposed the Israeli bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor at Osirak bombing in June 1981, arguing that the adverse reaction in Washington, D.C. would be a more serious national security threat to Israel than the Iraqi reactor itself. He suffered for his dissent, not being informed of the mission until three days before it was scheduled to take place. Saguy responded by briefly threatening to withhold intelligence.1
He joined Yitzhak Hofi, the director of Mossad, and Yigael Yadin, the deputy prime minister, in their futile dissent against the Osirak attack. Saguy took exception to the view that any Israeli military steps to avoid a "second Holocaust" were permissible.1
Sources
- Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. ↩
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