Meir Dagan - Former Director of Mossad BBC HARDtalk 2012

This is hardly "hardtalk" and I feel puzzled by how weak the questions were!

It was amusing to hear his argument about the brutality of the Syrian regime whilst ignoring the brutality of the IDF against palestinians and their sympathizers within the occupied territories and in international waters along with political assassination using foreign passports of so called "friendly" countries.

The most amusing aspect of this exchange was his extensive use of the word "rhetorical"!

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[newlifeeveryday]

I am shocked this guy can travel around the world without being arrested.

[IronPriest82]

I think they are pretty okay too.

[OnlyLifeMatters]

I love Jews.

[IronPriest82]

Because they are Jews and nobody likes the Jews...

[OnlyLifeMatters]

FSB, CIA, MI6 and the similar organizations all do the same. Why shouldn't Mossad have the same right?

[Aaron Summers]

Should an engineer be called a scientist? Maybe some, but I think only these involved in research should be, not the ones just applying basic principles as in nuclear bomb manufacturing.

[TurpentineRec]

The debate about the right of Israel to be on the Holy Land is going to be irrelevant with a matter of time, because Israel Govt is turning the situation of Palestine unbearable for Israelis.

[ErikPaulsonFan]

You would if the work of those scientists directly threatened you and your family.

That said, anyone who says you're an anti-Semite simply for being against the killing of the Iranian scientists is an idiot.

[mikecity82]

badass?

Emanuel Rozin, presenter of the popular Israeli television Channel Two, to announce the channel's "man of the year" 2008.

"He's the man who has only done good deeds... He's the person who is famed for cutting off Palestinians' heads with a Japanese knife... He's the man who was born with a knife between his teeth... He's the head of Mossad, Meir Dagan!"

The hall thundered with applause when Rozin announced Dagan as man of the year.

This guy is a terrorist not Islam you fool.

[galos1001]

the questions are soft because he's one of the few who opposes military action on iran...that actually sounds like the right thing to do.

He can enter different parts of the world because he's a badass former head of one of the best spy organizations of the world and not some dumbass islamic terrorist...

[kynismos]

This guy must be an impostor.