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Israeli Spy’s Warning: Tamir Pardo, a former director of Mossad, warned Israelis that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “extremist” government threatens to destroy the strategic relationship with the United States. In a column on the website of Israel’s Keshet 12 TV channel, Pardo writes, “The great risk for the State of Israel is that, for the first time, Israel may run into a head-on collision with a supreme American national security interest. This irresponsible conduct of the Israeli government and its leader could lead to an existential threat to the Jewish state and also to the Jews of the Diaspora.” Pardo, who has been a strong critic of Netanyahu after he ran the Mossad from 2011 to 2016, says there are clear signs of this looming strategic divorce, and Israelis should take them to heart. “Woe to us if, one morning, the Pentagon and the State Department came out with a statement to Congress and the White House in which it was said that Israel ceased to be an asset to the United States and became a strategic burden!”

Tamir Pardo (Sepiocyber.com)

Duty to Warn: CIA veteran Glenn Corn had a lot of insights from his 34-year intelligence career that he shared in his conversation with Jeff Stein on the SpyTalk Podcast. Corn had made some waves in a piece he wrote for The Cipher Brief that called out U.S. intelligence for a failure to warn Americans in Israel before the October 7 attack by Hamas. Days before the attack, the U.S. intelligence community reportedly produced two assessments, based in part on Israeli intelligence, warning of an increased risk for conflict. “Is it possible that somewhere in the U.S. government, the ball was dropped?” Corn asked.