Four former leaders of Israel’s Shin Bet security service say the lack of a peace agreement with the Palestinians could lead to “catastrophe.” “We are heading downhill toward near-catastrophe. If nothing happens and we go on living by the sword, we will continue to wallow in the mud and destroy ourselves,” Ya’akov Peri told the Israeli daily Yediot Achronot last week, speaking on behalf of colleagues Ami Ayalon, Avraham Shalom and Carmi Gillon.
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